Tampa's Hillsborough County among top 6 in Florida in foreclosure rates

(AP, Forbes.com): "Of the six Florida counties with the highest foreclosure rates, four were won by Obama. Two of those counties -

• Hillsborough, home to Tampa,

and Osceola, south of Orlando - were won by Republican George W. Bush in 2004. Osceola County led the state in September with 1 out of 69 homes, or 1.4 percent, in foreclosure....

• "The worse things are (in a county), the more likely there is to be

• a vote for Obama," said David Denslow, a professor and research economist at the University of Florida."...

The article cites an Orlando lady who chose a career as convenience store cashier but decided to quit the job 2 years ago. She can't find a job now so she voted for Obama with the expectation that

• he could provide her a guaranteed income (via some sort of guaranteed job I guess as a cashier).

The reason Hillsborough County has problems is everyone is lazy and no one is in charge. The area is a leaky sieve springing leaks in new places all the time. It resembles a third world rat trap in many ways. Without the investment Steinbrenner has made in Tampa over the years, this place would be little more than a swamp. (sm)

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