Let’s start a list of cities that have been ravaged by crime for decades and have been controlled by democrats for the same decades.

@ElwoodBlues ya, all those places are scary 😅, compared to California, Illinois, or New York 🤔 🙄

@checkoutanytime Thanks for sharing about your fears. I know it isn't easy for you 😘😚😢

@ElwoodBlues more crime happens per capita in san Francisco, Chicago, or NYC, than anywhere else in the country, where the local govt is pro defund the police, thats the definition of insanity.

@checkoutanytime Really?? Show us your numbers and sources.

Here's mine:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/crime-rate-by-state

He’s a fool. Humor him. @checkoutanytime

@jackjjackson Cities of 1,000,000 or more tend to be safer. See
https://www.crimeinamerica.net/most-dangerous-big-cities-rural-suburbs-small-cities-can-have-higher-rates-of-violence/

Be careful. Elwood is a master at copying and pasting URL’s that sy the exact opposite of what he claims they do. He thinks people don’t both to read. @ElwoodBlues @checkoutanytime @checkoutanytime

@jackjjackson ive known El Wood many moons. He means well, but never sees beyond his crayon illustrations, to see the big picture 🤷

@jackjjackson Too bad you can't supply any examples, LOL!!!
Is it fair to say that you're a master of making claims entirely unsupported by data??

@ElwoodBlues the demographics of your links, leave much crime out. For instance in California jwalking is legal, but in Alaska someone could be charged with a crime simply for hunting. Its rather skewed in your favor.

@checkoutanytime Still no numbers? Are jay-walking crimes even reported? This link says death rates in NYC are comparable to small town America. BUT. When you include transportation deaths - a major risk in rural areas - NYC comes out safer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new-york-city-more-dangerous-than-rural-america

@ElwoodBlues since the 80's, Chicago has been the shooting death capital, SF the drug crime capital, and NYC is just an awful place for people to live, between the shootings, drugs, robberies, and extortion.

@checkoutanytime Do you have any stats to support your claims about NYC? I've given you links and stats that refute your claim. Got any counter-argument or is repetition of your premise your only debate tool?

@ElwoodBlues NYC is a toilet, ever since the progressives ruined it.

@checkoutanytime That's a good start. Now compare those rates to other parts of the country. Here, I'll get you started.

South Carolina has 5.97 violent crimes per 1000 residents per year.
Arkansas has 5.9 violent crimes per 1000 residents per year.
Oklahoma has 5.87 violent crimes per 1000 residents per year.

Gosh, all these states are far less urban than NYC and they all have more than TRIPLE the violent crime rate of NYC.
Source: table at the bottom of https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/crime-rate-by-state
And all those places look even worse when you take into account transportation injuries and deaths.

@ElwoodBlues i feel safer around rural people that work jobs that produce, over city folks that dont work and live to be decietful like any city slicker, ever!

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How many meals does a computer yield?

@checkoutanytime Thanks for sharing your feelings! My computer work has been feeding my family quite comfortably for years, thank you very much!!

I decided to dig little deeper on transportation injuries. 2.35 million people in the US are injured or disabled due to car crashes annually. Dividing that by 330 million population and converting to injuries per thousand, that's 7 transportation injuries per thousand overall in the US. NYC has 1/3 the national rate of transportation injuries.

Notice how transportation injuries in the US are higher than most state violent crime rates? It's kind of a major cost of rural living.

@ElwoodBlues the cost of living has multiplied 300% in 20 yeras, that proves nothing. When i was 20 a two bed room apartment cost $400-$600, now $1,500 -$2,000, and a gallon of gas was $0.89 , now its $3.65. Your #'s support anti progress. If we were actually moving forward in this current model, things would be getting less expensive, bc of a global demand, not just the major metropolitan areas. You lefties are absolutley incoherent.

@checkoutanytime So you're now changing the subject from dangers of NYC - which I've shown are relatively low - to costs of NYC. That's a completely different topic, my friend.

And how much did average wages rise in that same time period? Did your wages stay constant? Of course not. Costs and wages rose pretty much together.

Says who, based on what data??

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Look, my original point is that NYC is safer than many rural areas. I've proved that. If you want to get in the last word complaining about prices, be my guest.

@ElwoodBlues no you went off topic, claiming rural life is merely an expense on you city slickers. You are wrong, about everything, as usual.

Your stats appear accurate. However I’m not moving there. I feel quite safe where I am thank you. For one thing you’re not here lol. @ElwoodBlues

@ElwoodBlues unions and bailouts of the banks, automobiles, & airline unions of Obama is why we have such high costs, and wildfire inflation 🤦, do not project the balme where it does not belong!

@checkoutanytime Nope. I didn't actually claim that, I merely claimed my computer work keeps my family fed. But, since you bring it up, let's take a quick look at where America's economic productivity resides:


What's missing from this graphic is the urban/rural split info. But we know Biden's support is primarily urban while Trump owns the rural areas, so evidence for much higher urban productivity is there.

@checkoutanytime DUUUDE!!! it was BUSH who bailed out Wall St & the auto industry. BUSH bailed them out, not Obama. And the Covid bailouts were all due to your pal Trump. I'm not saying I disagree with Trump's Covid bailouts, just that you can't pin them on Obama.


https://www.pandemicoversight.gov/data-interactive-tools/data-stories/how-many-paycheck-protection-program-loans-have-been-forgiven

Doing the math, 4.1 million loans X $95,700 = $392 BILLION in forgiven Trump PPP loans. Honestly that giveaway dwarfs every thing else.

@ElwoodBlues lol, Bush was a war mongering liberal, it was absolutely Obama that made socialism reality.