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.
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.
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.
Incompetent political leadership among the Mayors and City Councils and the City bureaucracy.
who??? democRATS...I suspect that Detroit was a Model City. Boy, that worked out well.
Decades and decades of liberal democrat governance killed Detroit.
Had GM & Chrysler gone thru bankruptcy (as they should have) wouldn’t the tens-of-Billion$$ of dollars illegally laundered thru them by Oenema now be available to (perhaps) provide some buffer for Detroit (and the scores of those to follow soon) to transition to a sane bankruptcy resolution??
There are race/cultural differences.A Scandinavian is of a different culture than a person from Uzbekistan. An Eskimo is of a different culture than a South African. An Anglo Saxon is different from an Oriental. A Muslim is of a different culture than a Christian. Such has been the world from the time of Abraham with Sarai and Hagar. Many years ago,so the Bible tells, people tried to become one of all at the Tower of Babel. The folly of the human species, at least for some, is to create a modern day societal Tower of Babel. Dr. Shockley was correct in that the characteristics of the different cultures distribution curves can overlap , but that doesn’t make them the same. When one race or culture sets out to dominate another race/culture a la Imperial Japan or Nazi Germany much turmoil results. I see the seeds of such in the likes of white supremacists, black agitators and Muslims.
Public unions + free sh*t army + 60 years of unbroken democrat rule destroyed Detroit.
And the same formula will also destroy Chicago, Philly, Newark, Camden, Cleveland, Buffalo, etc.
The jolt of fear we all felt caused everyone to sell their houses within about six months.