Posted on 07/20/2013 10:59:38 AM PDT by rickmichaels
The finger-pointing for Detroit’s decades of decline usually starts with the 1967 race riots. High pensions for unionized workers get its share of the blame, as does the global economic trends that upended the auto industry. Meanwhile, racial politics and white flight to the suburbs rightly earn a place as a driver of the city’s blight.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
greed
The author is mistaking a symptom for a cause.
Lot’s of blame, democrat rule, unions, but the big elephant in the room is the complete majority black rule.
“...white flight to the suburbs rightly earn a place as a driver of the city’s blight”
And what exactly drove the whites to flee the city?
The ultimate triumph of liberalism, which is also never mentioned in the lickspittle national press. This is what union rule looks like.
The ultimate triumph of liberalism, which is also never mentioned in the lickspittle national press. This is what union rule looks like.
The American auto industry couldn't, didn't make a quality product.
cannot blame private industry for public debt and malpractice
It had to be Keith Moon.
The need for greed
Amazing to see that in the WAPO.
How can the problem be fixed if the elites can’t confess that their statist ideology has been the cause?
Detroit today is 80% African-American, with a whole generation educated by a failed school system which produced an almost third world level of academic achievement. It has proven to be incapable of effective self government. The only hope of recovery is a long period of adult leadership in receivership, like DC had.
amazing they blame it on whites and businesses and not lefty politicians?
Don’t got by just the excerpt. She names names, Coleman Young, Kwame Kilpatrick, even our old pal John Dingel, she even points out he’s a Democrat, I don’t know if she emphasizes that about the others.
did they put it in the paper version?
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