Posted on 07/28/2013 12:25:21 PM PDT by Rufus2007
On Sunday’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on ABC, Washington Post columnist George Will took on proponents of federal assistance for Detroit, which declared bankruptcy earlier this month.
According to Will, the city isn’t undergoing a fiscal crisis, but is facing a much more serious cultural one, which is the source of its woes.
“Can’t solve the problems because the problems are cultural,” Will said. “You have a city, 139 square miles. You can graze cattle in vast portions of it. Dangerous herds of feral dogs roam in there. You have 3 percent of fourth graders reading at the national math standards. 47 percent of Detroit residents are functionally illiterate. 79 percent of Detroit children are born to unmarried mothers. They don’t have a fiscal problem, Steve. They have a cultural collapse.”
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Detroit is the largest black majority city outside of Africa. Run by blacks - as they wanted; and the results speak for themselves.
True George, but it is still a fiscal problem. And Chicago is heading down the same path.
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/obamas-economy-is-far-stronger-than-5-years-ago-fairytale-but-tied-the-room-together/
The exact same can be said for the second largest overwhelmingly black city outside of Africa -- Port Au Prince, Haiti. The results speak for themselves.
A lot of problems caused the fiscal problems, but you cannot deny the fiscal problem exists
What I don’t get, and I don’t give a damn if it’s Detroit, Chicago, or NYC, is why are my federal tax dollars going to a local gov’t to solve their bankruptcy problems? The people of Detroit have consistently favored reelecting people who they know are corrupt and are in the hip pockets of the union bosses. To me, the voters of Detroit got themselves into this problem, it’s their responsibility to get themselves out of it. If they don’t care enough to change their ways, why should I? And the clown in the interview who says “It’s only a few billion”, it’s that kind of mentality that put the US in debt up to its eyeballs with no end in sight. If Detroit persists in their current behavior, my guess is that, over time, the feral dogs will win out.
Georgie must gave been listening to his shoe shine guy.
The current attitude in Detroit worked fine until the auto companies realized they could move the factories outside the US and be even more profitable. And the stupid unions saw this, yet demanded ever-higher wages and pensions. Eventually, economic forces cause even the most immobile of resources (e.g., an auto factory) to move. Detroit has no one to blame but themselves and I sure as hell don’t want a dime of my federal dollars to go into that hell hole.
Or South Africa or Zimbabwe where all the whites are on the run - the jobs are going with them, but that’s okay. The feudal warlords still want our money no matter the continent - the people are and always will be the pawns, willing or not. I live in Michigan and would resent highly that my 4% state income tax is raised one penny to bail out Detroit. They are unrepentant marxists/enablers running that place who have no desire to reform anything except the cry babies like me who are being so selfish with my own money.
You are right, WD57, the Progressive-Statist destroy both, the collapse the economy by bureaucratization, and enslave, devalue, and diminish the human being with their social policies for total collapse.
Other that that, Will is channeling Robert Bork and Senator Patrick Daniel Moynihan....
A bunch of fat crooked bozos voted themselves bread and circuses then could not pay. Now it up to us to provide the bread and circus? Dang, I vote I am a millionaire but am broke so send me money too.
Fix the cultural problem and the fiscal one will go away on its own.
Detroit was ahead of the times. They’ve been doin the hopeandchange thing for 50 years. We’re all so screwed.
Detroit, due to the riots and the anti-white policies of Coleman Young, experienced the loss of more than 50% of its white population in about 5 years. Then, Detroit experienced the further flight of the black middle class in the 1980s.
There was never a Hispanic influx or an Indian/Korean influx of any size, because their traditional areas of conomic entry did not exist.
Detroit is now more than 80% underclass.
Chicago has seen white flight and still retains a white middle class that has been stable for the last 25 years. Because enough whites stayed, the city now has substantial Mexican, Indian and Korean communities that are thriving.
The black community adopted the same hard, militant stance in Chicago that they did in Detroit but they were unable to put their own Coleman Young in power. Harold Washington died in office without a successor and was unable to inflict nearly as much damage as Young did in Detroit.
However, the price Chicago paid was to allow Young/Washington style demagogues to control the black South Side. The South Side has now become a small Detroit within Chicago - Chicago's population losses over the past 20 years have ome from the almost complete flight of the black middle class from the city.
The underclass now has no moderating influence - it is quickly collapsing.
Chicago is entering its next phase and can either decide in favor of self-preservation or to follow Detroit's example. So far it has been choosing self-preservation by not allowing a redux of Detroit's Poletown.
Detroit can’t save itself, even thru bankruptcy because of their cultural issues.
The Communist/Black South Side gave birth to President Barack Hussein Obama who got elected to positions of power The Chicago Way. Scary, aint it?
When the lights go off - you have a fiscal problem.
When people move far away from you - you have a cultural problem.
Anyone with half a brain and/or any life skills has left.
So, guess who’s still there.
Don’t really give a damn about Detroit or what happens there.
Cept for the Tigers.
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