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What killed Detroit? Let’s not forget the ‘who.’
Washington Post ^
| July 19, 2013
| Jena McGregor
Posted on 07/20/2013 10:59:38 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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07/20/2013 11:01:05 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: rickmichaels
...and white flight to the suburbs rightly earn a place as a driver of the citys blight. The author is mistaking a symptom for a cause.
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07/20/2013 11:03:27 AM PDT
by
SeeSharp
To: rickmichaels
Lot’s of blame, democrat rule, unions, but the big elephant in the room is the complete majority black rule.
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:04:12 AM PDT
by
umgud
(2A can't survive dem majorities)
To: knarf
“...white flight to the suburbs rightly earn a place as a driver of the citys blight”
And what exactly drove the whites to flee the city?
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:05:49 AM PDT
by
aquila48
To: rickmichaels
The ultimate triumph of liberalism, which is also never mentioned in the lickspittle national press. This is what union rule looks like.
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:06:54 AM PDT
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Colonel_Flagg
(Army dad. And damned proud.)
To: rickmichaels
The ultimate triumph of liberalism, which is also never mentioned in the lickspittle national press. This is what union rule looks like.
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:06:54 AM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
(Army dad. And damned proud.)
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:08:24 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(When immigrants cannot or will not assimilate, its really just an invasion. Throw them out!)
To: rickmichaels
I haven't read anyone mention the underlying reason for the demise of Detroit, Motor City, USA that can be summed up in one sentence, and myriads of other factors that feed off of it.
The American auto industry couldn't, didn't make a quality product.
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:08:57 AM PDT
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lbryce
To: lbryce
cannot blame private industry for public debt and malpractice
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07/20/2013 11:11:18 AM PDT
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GeronL
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:13:51 AM PDT
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smokingfrog
( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:20:46 AM PDT
by
JamesA
(You don't have to be big to stand tall)
To: rickmichaels
Amazing to see that in the WAPO.
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:21:25 AM PDT
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jocon307
To: rickmichaels
How can the problem be fixed if the elites can’t confess that their statist ideology has been the cause?
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:23:58 AM PDT
by
deadrock
(I am someone else.)
To: rickmichaels
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.
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:24:51 AM PDT
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BeauBo
To: jocon307
amazing they blame it on whites and businesses and not lefty politicians?
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:26:44 AM PDT
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GeronL
To: GeronL
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.
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:44:26 AM PDT
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jocon307
To: jocon307
did they put it in the paper version?
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:47:07 AM PDT
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GeronL
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