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Hiroshima vs Detroit -- 64 years later
9/25/2009 | VANITY

Posted on 09/26/2009 5:38:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

PICTURES OF HIROSHIMA CIRCA 1945









DETROIT IN THE LATE 40's and EARLY 50's












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HIROSHIMA TODAY











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DETROIT TODAY




















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Who the hell won the war!



TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: bluezones; detroit; hiroshima; michigan; urban
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1 posted on 09/26/2009 5:38:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow.............Bumpin’ for later!


2 posted on 09/26/2009 5:44:07 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: SeekAndFind

I see some similarities in these photos. Hiroshima 1945 is where dictatorships and religious extremism get you. Hiroshima Modern times is what you get when you have capitalistic ideals running the show.

Now if you flip the last paragraph and insert Detroit in place of Hiroshima then you get the idea. Liberal ideas have run the show there in Detroit for far too long.


3 posted on 09/26/2009 5:44:20 PM PDT by pennyfarmer (Your Socialist Beat our Liberal)
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To: SeekAndFind

The people of Hiroshima had already faced total destruction, so they were smart enough not to vote for a socialist. Detroit’s people had never encountered the consequences of bad decisions, so they spent decades pushing for the most “liberal” government their neighbors could afford, with the crowning achievement last November. Karma.


4 posted on 09/26/2009 5:44:41 PM PDT by TurtleUp ([...Insert today's quote from Community-Organizer-in-Chief...] - Obama, YOU LIE!)
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To: SeekAndFind

A number of those Detroit Today pics are from the Packard Plant that closed in 1956.


5 posted on 09/26/2009 5:46:53 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: SeekAndFind
Detroit's been on the skids for 30 years.

If nothing else, the Japanese are a focused people.

I get your point though.

6 posted on 09/26/2009 5:47:32 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Do you mind if I link this on my Facebook page ?

BTW - I live only a few hours from both Nagasaki and Hiroshima by car . Never been to Detroit . Bronx and parts of Queens and Brooklyn bad enough .


7 posted on 09/26/2009 5:48:35 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: SeekAndFind

We beat the foreign enemies, but had no way of dealing with the domestic enemies. We still don’t. Witness the destruction they are causing.

Very good post, nonetheless. Thanks.


8 posted on 09/26/2009 5:49:04 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: SeekAndFind
Why liberals won in Detroit. Pubbies should be using pictures of this everywhere to demonstrate what happens when liberal (marxist) policies are ascendant for protracted periods of time.
9 posted on 09/26/2009 5:49:31 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: Reagan Man

Interesting.


10 posted on 09/26/2009 5:50:01 PM PDT by Ravi
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To: TurtleUp

Thought experiment ( suggested episode for the Twilight Zone).

1) Imagine everyone in Hiroshima (population : 1.1 Million) today were teleported to Detroit.

2) Now imagine the same -— everyone in Detroit (population : 950,000) are teleported to Hiroshima.

What would happen 25 years later ?

I’d like Rod Serling to write a script and 30 minute show on that.


11 posted on 09/26/2009 5:50:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: sushiman
Do you mind if I link this on my Facebook page ?

Not at all -- be my guest. I took a lot of those images from Google.
12 posted on 09/26/2009 5:51:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Moral of the story :

Liberals can nuke cities with more devastating effect than nuclear bombs. All it takes is to vote for them.


13 posted on 09/26/2009 5:51:14 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: SeekAndFind
Thought experiment ( suggested episode for the Twilight Zone). 1) Imagine everyone in Hiroshima (population : 1.1 Million) today were teleported to Detroit. 2) Now imagine the same -— everyone in Detroit (population : 950,000) are teleported to Hiroshima. What would happen 25 years later ?

Well, Detroit would look quite nice in a whole lot less than 25 years. As for Hiroshima ... Japan forgave us once, more or less, but that was just over a couple of nukes. I doubt they would be so tolerant if we dumped a million kooks on them. It's sad, but it's the people who created that destruction in their own back yards.

14 posted on 09/26/2009 5:55:21 PM PDT by TurtleUp ([...Insert today's quote from Community-Organizer-in-Chief...] - Obama, YOU LIE!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Do a Youtube search for “abandoned Detroit”


15 posted on 09/26/2009 5:57:15 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Nuc1

THAT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST MISTAKES THE CONSERVATIVES/REPUBLICANS HAVE ever MADE.

We have NEVER shown them in pics what they got with the DEMS...especially black people.


16 posted on 09/26/2009 5:58:48 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Pray for Israel! And Georgia ! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
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To: GeronL

I got one link here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JbGxIR8JTk

The caption says :

It is an open secret that the downtown of Detroit, Michigan is as empty as the residential districts that surround it.

On a walking tour of the city core one July 2008 Sunday, this is what I found.


17 posted on 09/26/2009 6:00:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: sushiman

From the images and videos I have seen of Tokyo, I would say the Japanese seem to have an aversion to waste like Detroit. Much of Detroit is a wasteland.

You can Youtube “Abandoned Detroit”


18 posted on 09/26/2009 6:01:24 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: SeekAndFind

Not all Detroit is like that...I stayed there at the Omni two weeks ago....it was all nice and clean..had a fun time.


19 posted on 09/26/2009 6:02:03 PM PDT by Irisshlass
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To: SeekAndFind

I have seen that video. It is amazingly eerie.


20 posted on 09/26/2009 6:02:15 PM PDT by GeronL
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