Posted on 02/14/2012 10:48:35 AM PST by equaviator
-1. Real estate is CHEAP there.
-2. Proximity to major resources and infrastructure remain.
-3. Opportunities abound for the motivated & financed.
To wit: an area of reconstruction could be carved out and defended, given enough willing to make it happen & defend the effort.
Your optimism is galla nt but misplaced -
All trends point to Detroit being a leader in a long term trend.
If not - argue it - point to some trends that support Detroit as an anomoly.
You can’t.
That does not mean is it inevitable - just that - if current trends do not change - it IS the destination.
Perfect building for the UN to move into. They don’t deserve better.
#22 (#21 has been taken twice :)
Never, never, EVER let liberals take over and dominate your local politics. Or your national politics for that matter.
Every city and state in financial trouble has had liberals running it for some time. A lesson to be learned.
the causes?
Democrats, growing government, and “free trade” especially with China.
China is growing at 25% economic growth . Detroit used to be the Industrial capital of the world now because of free trade with china detroit is this decaying hell hole .China manufactures things detroit doesn't.
The solution: Stop all trade with other countries. make things In the U.S.A again. Reduce government size ,reduce government regulations, repeal pro union laws, deport illegals and stop this free trade insanity especially with china.
It's amazing the number of so called conservatives on this site that have debated me on this : they are in favor of trade with china. Amazing.
We'll survive!
Simply put, Detroit is so-called Black Pride’s model city. Yes, that is racial, but it is not racist. What blacks did to Detroit was a matter of mindset, not pigmentation.
They could have chosen to go the route of blacks as depicted in the great movie, “The Temptations.” But, instead, they chose to go the route of welfare, anger, and victimization.
We all make our choices and take our chances.
If you invest in RE in Detroit, you make yourself a target of the taxing authorities.
No thanks - plenty of empty land elsewhere.
And OBTW, much of the infrastructure is gone - either decayed or stolen.
Benito Obamalini, I like that. Got a good chuckle out of it.
I took a look at the population of Detroit.
It is 82.7%black
It is 6.8% Hispanic
A high crime rate?
Reached the tipping point? Yeah!!! A long time ago.
2,000,000 residents - 5,000 cops = .0025%
713,000 residents - 3,000 cops = .0042%
60% more cops per person yet crime is worse than ever without enough cops to answer calls.
I believe even if the car makers were going full guns most of the people there couldn’t get hired. They can’t read! That’s the education system’s fault. Look at the teachers. When congress is filled with Cynthia McKinney and Sheila Jackson-Lee and Maxine Waters types, and the guy from Georgia who worried that Guam would tip over if too many Marines were sent there, what quality of teachers can we expect to get?
see my tagline
Too much of Detroit now shows no evidence of the vital city it once was, world-famous for its innovation and spirit. Large portions of the land that sustained us for generations are devastated and sterile.
We can, and must, do better, for our children’s sake. It’s our dream to rejuvenate our city by returning to our agrarian roots.” http://www.hantzfarmsdetroit.com/introduction.html
Leave it as a stark reminder. “Detroit can serve as a valuable lesson to the rest of the country. It has been the perfect laboratory for leftist policies at work. The more you examine the policies of Detroit’s politicians, the more strikingly similar to this administration they become.” http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/12/21/is-this-the-future-of-america-detroit/
“2,000,000 residents - 5,000 cops = .0025%
713,000 residents - 3,000 cops = .0042%”
It’s a quality control issue all the way around.
They've touched on a solution: make Detroit a nation along the lines of an Indian reservation. Let them tax certain imports to create jobs. They can put their tribe back to work this way.
This is not just Detroit, it is virtually every US major city, and even some minor ones.
The city where I was born, Bridgeport, Connecticut is in similar straits. While it’s peak population was only some 130,000, Bridgeport could proudly boast of all the problems of a major ghetto.
This once proud city is now a sewer.
Some clueless locals - like everywhere - have been saying that “Bridgeport is coming back...” They have been saying this since the 1970’s, and some suckers always come along and try to invest there, but they soon lose everything.
Bridgeport, Connecticut was once a mighty powerhouse of a Northeast industrial manufacturing center...
- Bridgeport Brass
- Bridgeport Machines
- Carpenter Steel
- Acme United (Acme Shear)
- Remington Arms
- Singer
- Textron Lycoming
- AVCO
- Sikorsky
- Raybestos
...all gone.
Bridgeport was also the home of P.T. Barnum and his circus.
Connecticut Magazine scored Bridgeport in 2003 as the lowest of 17 major cities within the state in terms of education, crime, and economic condition.
I worked as draftsman for a machine tool industry leader in ballscrew manufacturing between ‘78 and ‘81. Not only was the plant full of Bridgeport and other New England-based machine tool brands, we were making ballscrew assemblies for many of their new products. The market for American-made machine tool products began to disappear soon after I jumped over to work as a nomadic “jobbie” in the automotive industry. Plant robotics were the latest big thing at that time. Looking back on it, we seem to have failed to capitalize on it without sacrificing our own machine tool industry.
If the ground remained fertile, seeds would continue to flourish and grow.
The politicians made the ground infertile.
Regulations, taxation, unions and other pressures made the once fertile fields unprofitable. That is the only thing that changed.
A better idea is to cede Detroit over to Canada. Not that Canada would take it, but we could try.
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