When you say Asia, do you mean China? I saw an article on 60 minutes or somewhere like that where there were entire cities of brand new condominiums, businesses, malls etc. all built by Chinese construction conglomerates and funded by individual Chinese people who see this sort of construction as a good investment, as they don't trust Chinese stocks and bonds and don't have access to other forms of capital investment. Unfortunately, as so often occurs in command economies, no consideration is given to if there is actually a need for what is built.

We have a friend who recently took an Asian cruise. He was stunned by what he described as hundreds, literally hundreds of abandoned high rises and whole housing communities. I found this link-it does look like dystopian movies sets
http://io9.com/chinas-brand-new-abandone...

Surely some of these photos depict Starnesville. When Rand wrote AS the abandoned factory was unimaginable; now it's unavoidable.

"The beauty of abandoned places in Northeast Ohio " Hmmm, sounds an awful lot like the Jay Carney explaining high unemployment as being good as it gave workers "More time to be with their families"!

Not just because it is. Same as Olof it's new it's good. Also not necessarily true. It's good because of its value and usefulness.

What an archeological treasure! Oh, wait a minute! These sites are not a thousand years old, they are today's remnants.. Damn, what ugly blight. How very sad. I wonder how much productivity was lost when those locations were abandoned.

These are as sad as pictures from war torn arenas, being prettied up by an artfully place bouquet or poignantly arrayed toys. Each photo represents lives turned awry. It is more common daily. Nothing is being done to turn this tide; with taxes, limitations, harassments, onerous permit processes, agenda 21 and all "green" restrictions, it is becoming harder and harder to bring ideas to financial fruition, thus strangling job creation. As stated by UncommonSense...at least we now have equal poverty.

I grew up in Cleveland. One of the saddest stories in the region is that of "Millionaire's Row" (on Euclid Avenue)

Look it up sometime, there's a lot of snippets here and there, but not a whole lot of fully comprehensive history on it. Rockefeller, Mather, etc... look at the list of who built there, it reads like an Atlas Shrugged novel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_Aven...

And now, every single one of them are gone, with the exception of a very few that remain standing (you can count the number that remain on one hand I believe... there used to be hundreds)... go progressives!

Perhaps "Who Is John Galt?" the movie could use such a slideshow as an intro to get the audience up to speed in case they missed the first couple of AS movies.

Will do.

Thank the better half for all of her hard work and Robin as well. can't wait to watch

I did, but it was the night before in Springfield IL where she spoke before a crowd of over 100. The better half is editing it and once Robin reveiws & approves it, we will make it public on youtube. I will post the video on the Gulch when this happens.

sounds educational and fun. good day. did you tape it?

Its a slideshow from Atlas Shrugged.
More effective content than most of AS2 unfortunately.

I was in St. Charles yesterday with Robin Eubanks. It was a packed house ~ about 80 people crammed in the conference room listening most intently. The weather was gorgeous and we enjoyed taking both ferries across the rivers from Grafton IL to St. Charles. Wish you could have been there. You would have loved it.

The MO State Rep (don't remember her name) was moved so much, we may get Robin to come back later this year. Yep, all about the stupid Common Core. It's worse than most people think.

yes.

These place may make for good photography but they all represent lives being turned upside down as well. Showing the images is fine but they need to keep it context.
Who is John Galt!

Coming to a mall near you...slowly, over the next 10-20 years.

You'd think the communists would be celebrating the utopia they've worked so hard to create: business & commerce shut down. No prosperity & poverty equally distributed throughout the affected areas. There should be signs posted saying "This is for the 'little-guy'. And 'the children' and of course 'the economy stupid.'

and here is St. Louis:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...
when I first went there in the late 80s, there were all these once gorgeous mansions abandoned. People had fled their homes during the riots of 60s/70s and the big push of people into projects in the inner city. Many of these once grand homes were built around the 1st world's fair there. We lived near Wash U and it was so sad to see it. Over the following 10 years due to economic boom, most of the homes underwent renovations. I wonder how many are now in foreclosure...

they have that too-
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/completel...