America's Truckstop
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4/17/2015
You've probably read the Chamber of Commerce stuff about Indy, the Livabilty article that ranks our downtown as the third best in the country, etc. Don't be fooled. Let's dissect this nonsense.
Super Bowl - The Super Bowl is awarded to cities that extort money from the taxpayers to build stadiums. Detroit has had two. Minneapolis is about to have two. Houston has had two. Who hasn't had a Super Bowl? Denver, for starters. Neither has Seattle. You'd have to be on drugs to think that Indianapolis is half the city of Denver or Seattle.
But They Said We Were Great - This is repeated ad nauseous in Indy, a town so incredibly insecure that it actually cares what visitors think of it. New York couldn't care less what visitors think. San Francisco couldn't care less. Even San Antonio, Indy's demographic twin, couldn't care less what people think because the people who live in these cities know they're fabulous. Indy is like the ugly girl that constantly needs to be told she's pretty. She's not. They're lying.
Silicon Beanfield - Indy so wants to be a tech hotbed. We have ExactTarget, aka Salesforce. We also have Angie's List and ChaCha. Now, if you know anything about tech you know that ET is an email company. Email was hot in 1988. Now, so much. Angie's List is a scam and ChaCha is gone. Indy is about as far from a tech city as one could possibly be and still call planet Earth home.
Downtown - This city continues to pour money into downtown why I do not know. Downtown was important before this thing called the internet but not so much any more. The ugly little secret is that most Indy based businesses have fled downtown to Hamilton County. All that's left is city and state government. Circle Center Mall is down to 1 anchor and they're being paid to stay. The GM stamping plant is going to become a two billion jail, even though these same clowns that boost downtown said it was a valuable piece of land that would be snatched up. Yeah, that's why they're putting a jail on it.
Sportstown USA - Stadiumville is more like it. The city has let the neighborhoods decay. They can't fill a pothole. Crime is off the charts and yet every time we turn around Ballard and Company are giving millions to another conman to build another stadium that will sit empty. You would have to be crazy to invest your money in such a city.
I could go on, but instead I'm gonna issue a challenge to EB. Here's the deal, son. Rebut my points. I've already acknowledged that I'm a vile troll, so you don't have to repeat yourself. Just tell me where I'm wrong. Don't repeat the garbage about affordability. We all know it's affordable, mostly because NOBODY WANTS TO BE HERE. The Mojave Desert is also affordable. So rebut my points if you can. I'm guessing you can't. Indy is America's truckstop, a great place to stop and use the restroom while heading elsewhere. Beyond that, there's no reason to be here.
Steverino | Indianapolis, IN