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• W76888111 abstract "Washington is a city of monuments. Its grandest and most expensive is a work still in progress, but nearing completion: District of Columbia itself, which commemorates ruin of American liberalism. The D.C. government is bankrupt today because liberal policies have decimated its tax base. Washington is a hollow community of extreme rich and poor. Landlords and private employers have fled by thousands, followed by nearly entire middle class of taxpayers. Although Washington is center of one of most dynamic information-based economies in U.S, it has a declining population and a growing number of people below poverty line. This year, twice as many households as in 1988 lack phones. In no other laboratory of democracy has liberal experiment taken such pure form. Nowhere else have results been so damning. The District is perhaps most liberal city in America. Nine of every 10 registered voters are Democrats, and Socialist Workers Party fields more candidates for local office than Republican Party. Conceived at high tide of American liberalism, District government is a product of its times, more concerned with rights of groups than with responsibilities of individuals. Many of original office holders, political activists with no experience in private enterprise, are still in power today. The results are tragic. Among all U.S. states, District has highest percapita murder and violent-crime rates, highest percentage of residents on public assistance, highestpaid school board, lowest SAT scores, and most single-parent families. The political activists have built a government they can't afford. Although city takes in an astounding $8,950 in revenue for every man, woman, and child in its jurisdiction (compared with $4,100 and $3,700 in nearby Maryland and Virginia, respectively), District still manages to spend $1,000 more per person than it receives. The result is a budget deficit edging closer to $1 billion with each new audit. The victims of this ferociously progressive government are not wealthy and privileged, but middle class and beleaguered. Today, in some parts of city, it seems entire neighborhoods are for sale. In places like Shepherd Park, Lincoln Park, Marshall Heights--communities once redolent of African-American pride and history--there are lonely streets whose only splash of color appears on real-estate signs that seem to sprout from every other garden plot. At end of one of these streets stands Florida Avenue Grill. From behind counter of often-crowded restaurant, Lacey Wilson Jr. has seen District of Columbia ebb and flow. These days, it's mostly ebbing. Back in 1944, when Wilson's father opened his soul-food restaurant on corner of Florida Avenue and 11th Street, near LeDroit Park section of Northwest Washington, city was a thriving community of educated descendants of freed slaves, flourishing family businesses, and urban sophistication. It was also a magnet of opportunity for blacks seeking to escape rural poverty. At mid-century, wartime Washington offered stable, well-paying white-collar jobs in federal bureaucracy. People came and put down roots. Eighteen years ago, when Lacey Wilson Jr. began working at Grill full time, neighborhood brimmed with well-kept houses and children playing. Today, Grill stands alone in an otherwise vacant lot. In short time since District was granted home rule in 1974, Washington has gone from promised land to no-man's-land. Most of families who lived here have moved out to Maryland, says Wilson, himself a refugee to the peace and quiet of suburban Virginia. Those who stayed in neighborhood, according to Wilson, are trapped in houses that have lost 30 percent of their value in last eight years. Business used to be better, says Wilson. The vacant lot next door means more taxicabs can park at lunch time, but crime that holds this city hostage each night has cut his after-dark dinner traffic by half. …" @default.
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• W76888111 title "Black Flight: Years of Liberal Government Drives Away D.C.'S Middle Class" @default.
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