August 2, 2012
In light of the recent voter rejection of the T-SPLOST in Atlanta, I have decided that my hometown is going to fail. If T-SPLOST was all they could come up with and that could not pass voters, then the region is doomed. Doomed to a life stuck in traffic with dwindling economic prospects as jobs move to less congested parts of the South and the nation. And once the jobs start moving (or failing to even arrive), the dam will have broken. A region dependent on constant growth will be swept aside when the growth halts. The failure to pass T-SPLOST is indicative of a political culture that refuses to think ahead, so I’m sure the massive decline in home values and increase in poverty will come as a complete surprise. The picture above is borrowed from The Walking Dead, a fictional account of a zombie apocalypse, but I won’t be surprised if subdivisions in Acworth or Buford look like this by 2040. Except the zombies won’t be the undead crying out for “Brains!” but rather the poor crying out for “Trains!”

In light of the recent voter rejection of the T-SPLOST in Atlanta, I have decided that my hometown is going to fail. If T-SPLOST was all they could come up with and that could not pass voters, then the region is doomed. Doomed to a life stuck in traffic with dwindling economic prospects as jobs move to less congested parts of the South and the nation.
And once the jobs start moving (or failing to even arrive), the dam will have broken. A region dependent on constant growth will be swept aside when the growth halts. The failure to pass T-SPLOST is indicative of a political culture that refuses to think ahead, so I’m sure the massive decline in home values and increase in poverty will come as a complete surprise.
The picture above is borrowed from The Walking Dead, a fictional account of a zombie apocalypse, but I won’t be surprised if subdivisions in Acworth or Buford look like this by 2040. Except the zombies won’t be the undead crying out for “Brains!” but rather the poor crying out for “Trains!”

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  1. jacksonreeves reblogged this from lifeonfoot and added:
    The rhyme at the end is a bit cloying, but other than that, I completely agree with this outlook. Oy, Atlanta, when will...
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