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Proof Democrats are worse than atomic bombs
The Looking Spoon ^ | 7-19-13 | The Looking Spoon

Posted on 07/19/2013 10:01:15 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon



TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bankruptcy; democrats; detroit; hiroshima

1 posted on 07/19/2013 10:01:15 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon
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To: The Looking Spoon

One of your best. Spent a week in Hiroshima once. Amazing how vibrant and nice they’ve rebuilt the city. Spent a day in the Detroit airport once. That’s as close as I ever care to get to the city.


2 posted on 07/19/2013 10:04:24 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman
The rest of the city looks even worse than the airport. It is a wasteland of dilapidated housing and boarded up high rise office buildings. It is a damn shame what the Democrat party has done to Detroit!
3 posted on 07/19/2013 10:14:08 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town
It is a damn shame what the Democrat party has done to Detroit!

I don't dispute a word of that; I do, however, mean to say I'm sure the high Pooh-Bahs of the Democratic [sic] party are proud of their anti-capitalist accomplishments in Detroit.

The Chicagoization and Detroitification of America continue full speed "Forward!"

4 posted on 07/19/2013 10:17:56 AM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: Standing Wolf

The real question is how long before Chicago looks just like Detroit. Part of Chicago already look like Detroit. However, much of Chicago is still quite beautiful. Will Chicago start to empty as quickly as Detroit did? Will the next Chicago Mayor be as left as Rahm but as black as Obama?

When Rome fell it went from a city of over one million to a small town of twenty thousand and stayed that way for a millennium. Is that the future of the once great American Democrat run cities and America as a whole?


5 posted on 07/19/2013 10:30:05 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: The Looking Spoon

If the US ever collapses like Detroit, I may have to move to Hiroshima or Nagasaki Japan....


6 posted on 07/19/2013 10:49:15 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Jim from C-Town

Chicago has one gigantic advantage over Detroit: it is the largest rail transportation hub in the USA. So much so every railroad is spending huge sums of money to upgrade the rail lines in the metropolitan Chicago area to expedite goods transport through the city. And Chicago has a vibrant financial sector, expecially in commodity futures trading.


7 posted on 07/19/2013 11:17:07 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88

Yes, but Detroit had the largest industry in the country for seventy five years. The auto industry. They basically left, as can commodities and rail lines. As more and more people become displaced, or even stagnant in place due to economic malaise, the rail lines and commodities exchanges will find a better home. They can leave just as easily as automobile production.

Look at the unfunded liabilities of all government levels in this country and to conclude that a terrible fall is all but inevitable.


8 posted on 07/19/2013 12:34:01 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town
When Rome fell it went from a city of over one million to a small town of twenty thousand and stayed that way for a millennium. Is that the future of the once great American Democrat run cities and America as a whole?

I certainly can't claim to read the future, Jim from C-Town, but have a hunch the collapse of the leftist extremist oligarchy will come sooner than later and prove decisive rather than protracted. How soon will our restored constitutional republic recover? I'd guess that will depend on the number of innocent lives lost during the oligarchy's reign and collapse. Even wild shot in the dark guesses are beyond me.

9 posted on 07/19/2013 1:23:41 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: Jim from C-Town
Here's the thing though: because the Chicago area is a major interchange point for six different major railroads (BNSF, Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, CSX, Canadian National and Canaadian Pacific), there will always be major economic activity in the Chicago area. And Chicago's economic base is far more diverse than Detroit ever was.
10 posted on 07/19/2013 4:37:37 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88

Agree with your post. Friends’ daughter lives up there, even in the “rough” areas rents are very high by midwest standards.
Chicago does not have the abundance of abandoned properties like Motown.


11 posted on 07/19/2013 4:40:43 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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