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COLUMBUS, Ga. — Another viral online video sent to us by local residents perfectly depicts the tone-deaf and disingenuous nature of city officials’ claims of ‘tourism’ saving the Fountain City.
The video accurately depicts how the public mocks the so-called ‘tourism’ efforts of local governments who are too high on their own hot air to see how atrocious their toxically-optimistic and incompetent efforts really are.
Though the video itself is about Cleveland, it depicts the exact same incompetence that has continued to lead Columbus further into urban decay for over a decade.
It doesn’t exactly take a Master of Business Administration to understand that trying to build a local economy on ‘tourism’ in a city with a rampant homicide problem, record-setting crippling poverty, and increasing homelessness — all while not having a single product differentiator demonstrably valued by the market — is a really bad idea.
Because the public is in fact not as dumb as CCG wishes they were and can in fact see and think for themselves, CCG’s laughable efforts to place an absolutely crap product in even more poorly-designed shiny new packaging continues to make our city the laughing stock of the Southeast.
Not to mention, have you seen our city’s so-called ‘logo’?
Nonetheless, our city officials continue to boast about how ‘tourism’ is going to save our city, even though the effort has gone on for a decade while the city continues to spiral into urban decay.
Perhaps CCG ought to realize that they are a government and are not in fact a private business — because if they were a corporate entity, they would have gone belly-up years ago as their target customers laughed their incompetence right out of the marketplace.
Anyways, here’s Wonderwall.
VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/oZzgAjjuqZM
Facts are stubborn things — and we’ll keep publishing them, whether city officials like them or not.
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