cairo, IL.

cairo, IL

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[miazagora]

Go to Mises.org an search for an article called "The Endless Sufferings of Cairo, IL."

[profitleads]

A fossilized example of a place that came into being and grew due largely to government intervention and declined due to the same reason. People never seem to learn, even after it's too late to stop the decline. Look back in history at the beginnings of this town and how government intervention caused it to grow by artificial means.

[hutton1415]

Coming soon oh wait no most town are already starting to look just like this

[BeantownJim]

hope and change!

[MrTakeBackAmerica]

What are you all going to do when 75% of all towns look like this, and the other 25% are completely gone, i dont think most of you are going to survive what is right around the corner. I pray for your souls, but you will certainly be dead in the near future, and some of you will go in ways you could have never imagined, i feel sorry for your bodies, but may your souls find a better place to roam!

[lataurice1]

Hate to see a town that my brith place and raised in look like that. Still got family there nut have not been there since my grandma past

[MollyPrice102897]

My grandparents and family members used to tell me that Cairo was the place to go "back in the day". I used to go to Cairo every weekend

[MollyPrice102897]

I was born and raised in Olive Branch Illinois which is really close to Cairo. My cousin is the att. there. My mom and grandma worked at the courthouse there. I remember going there all the time when I was little..

[TheWaterlily2012]

@joefrompic The way it's going in this country, no one will be able to afford a $400,000 house except that 1% that own everything anyway. St. Louis still has some decent jobs since it is a big city, but there isn't any work in Cairo. It's just sad all the way around what's been going on with disasters all over, the economy, wars, fighting, crime, and homelessness. In my opinion it's just going to get worse. A lot of people will not be prepared. I'm aware, and am not as prepared as I should be!

[joefrompic]

Believe me, I am in favor of the farms, too. Just, I think that many of the houses there, if fixed up could be expensive houses. I live up in Saint Louis, and there are houses in Kirkwood which are selling for like 400,000 dollars and the architecture doesn't come close to the cairo houses. This whole flooding deal this past year was awful. There are many people who live in cairo and their neat houses as well as many farmers who need land, and the people who need food. Its sad both ways.

[TheWaterlily2012]

@joefrompic Yes, it DID once have some beautiful architecture. I've been through there too (didn't stop) and felt bad that all of the once beautiful things have been destroyed for the most part. I think it would take a whole group of billionaires to fix it back up and then people would have to live there that would keep it that way. I love old buildings and homes myself. In knowing what is planned for this world, and here in the USA, food is going to be of the utmost importance & we need farms.

[joefrompic]

@TheWaterlily2012 I think they are both worth saving; cairo, despite its awful past and how crime ridden it is, it really was a beautiful city. The architecture is beautiful and amazing. There are some of the fanciest buildings I've ever seen down there. The city of Cairo really is a photographers paradise. What this town needs is some billionaire to rehab the whole place. Some of the buildings look like they could be $500,000+ houses if fixed properly. I've been there, and it really is sad.