These kinds of situations require cold-blooded assessments. It will take courage to see what is really there and get the Hell out!
Perhaps we should bring back the Clinton “Bake sales.”
Obama already fixed this..http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V6Su5mjQSaE...see?
Yes....yes......yes. We all see the symptoms......high unemployment.....declining public services......urban decay.
We know the symptoms, but we refuse to acknowledge the diagnosis. Here is the diagnosis for Detroit. It has a terminal case of Democrat party.
You cannot force someone to produce. You can only entice them to do so.
Slaves and serfs virtually never work harder than necessary to avoid beatings.
How hard was that to figure out? I've got to believe it must be awfully difficult, because the history of Marxism is an unbroken list of failures on the part of statists to understand any part of economics or human nature. Ultimately, Marxism is nothing grander than the straightest, smoothest path to power for the psychopaths who help themselves to control of Marxist organizations and states. The utopian jibber-jabber is window dressing. It's always about power, and the first and last measure of Marxist dictatorship is mass murder.
How hard was that to figure out? Again, it must be extremely difficult, because even lifelong anti-communists sincerely believe Marxism is a utopian philosophical system rather than a hodgepodge of lies top-ranking communists have never taken even 1% seriously. Maybe it's all just too simple for lots of us to accept at face value.
In any event, Detroit's bankruptcy is much in the news these days. I have a hunch if we were to quit looking at the particulars and take a long look at the whole trend or devolution, which dates back decades, we'd see yet another all but blindingly obvious fact: Detroit is a Democratic [sic] party sterling success story. Comprehensive collapse is what's supposed to happen.
That's been the goal all along. The Chicagoization and Detroitification of America continue full speed "Forward!" as people say in Democratic [sic] party circles. The next step in the Detroit saga? Forcing the nation to pour still more good money after bad, of course.
Here's the BEST line from it:
"Detroit's ruling class is a parasite that has outgrown its host."
Ding, ding, ding! The money statement of the day! It seems every government employee was "promised" this or that...and no one wants to give anything up. Never do you see unions saying, "yes, we understand state revenues are lower since the recession started, so we're willing to give up some benefits."
It's more like, "you have less revenues? Not our problem, suckas!"
Well, guess what. These people that served their community for years are going to lose their pensions completely or maybe get 8 or 9 cents on the dollar.
They will be in the same boat as the takers that took welfare, watched TV, smoked dope and drank their lives away while sucking on the FedGov teat.
The vast majority of these people are black. I feel for them because Obama, Holder, Sharpton, Jackson, and all the race pimps want us to focus on one black criminal thug that was shot when he was trying to kill a hispanic. That thug did not contribute a single thing to his community. In fact he was stealing from his community to fund his drug habit. Yet that is the ideal Obama, Holder, Sharpton, and Jackson are holding up as the standard under which the black community should march under. How do you think those people about to lose their pensions in Detroit feel about the the shameful behavior of their “black leaders”?
The reason why New York City hasn't fallen into the same abyss is that the city has a very diverse economic base, and most of the rich are still living in Manhattan. Meanwhile, if you look at Detroit, the city is completely destitute, while the surrounding suburbs are some of the most prosperous in the country.
The progressive can not, will not...dares not accept or understand this concept. His entire world view crumbles into dust if he admits this is reality.
He thus changes the subject by claiming that the whole concept of economic expansion is a fraud, the economy is a zero-sum game, private businesses are little better than highwaymen, and government must level incomes to ensure equality of outcomes.