Posted on 08/15/2005 3:32:16 AM PDT by TimeLord
Oh yeah. Detroit is the only city I've ever worked in that takes taxes from you. Like it was a privilege to work there. They should have given me combat pay to come there every day.
Oh, the horror!
Homeless homes!
Exactly and that prevailing attitude is why Detroit will continue it's downward spiral, of which it only has about two more spins before it completely implodes anyway.
"blacks are the favorite target of liberal do-gooders, so it's no wonder that their family structure is destroyed, their youth are stuck on the streets, and their mothers are stuck in a cycle of welfare."
- Very good observation. Too bad all blacks aren't as smart as some...like Bill Cosby. But I guess he's a racist too. </sarcasm>
Is it any wander folks on the west side of the state refer to it as DeToilet ;-)
As, this reporter points out, 83% of Detroit is Black; so I guess we know who is committing the crime there -- White's are sneaking back into Detroit to commit crime from Suburbia.
What part of "move" do these people not understand.
Didn't Robocop supposedly take place in Detroit? Wonder how it looks now compared to that movie.
I prefer "a shining example of the truth about socialism"......whats left of the "working class" are also fleeing to the suburbs such as Eastpointe, Warren and Roseville.
I can't see any future in Detroit. The downtown area is trying to lure upscale people by building expensive condos and townhouses but there is no infrastructure to support it. Once you leave your complex, you are taking your life into your own hands. I think most of the people who have bought downtown probably work in the Renaissance Center area.
There were some condos built on Woodward Ave. by Ford Field that my sister tried talking me into buying. What she had no idea of was the traffic that I would have to put up with driving out to Troy where I work. A Nightmare!
I attended a ballgame down there last fall and the bums that were hanging around the street outside of that condo community were incredible. That is NOT the type of place where I would feel comfortable living in a $200,000 + condominium..............
Detroit stinks and it is dying.........
Robocop was set in Detroit but filmed in Dallas. Go figure.
Southfield...
The city should offer to give the home to her.
With apologies to Johnny Carson; "I did not know that."
Herein lies the key.
Detroit (or anywhere else) is permanently beyond hope so long as the instinct for survival is dismissed as a character or cultural fault.
We seem to have a fatal cultural problem similar to islam. Only in a totalitarian state can you force large groups to expose themselves to mayhem and murder for a "higher" goal, be that goal saving a city or saving a subculture.
First the subculture must save itself. Expecting the rest of the universe to sacrifice their most vulnerable, the youngest and the oldest, in order to save a city, or even a neighborhood, is a hopeless task. And forget asking for volunteers. You will always get a few, the dimmest of the dim, to try but the results will always be the same.
A mindset that requires the conscious sacrifice of lives is simply not going to happen. The word "hopeless" continues to exist for a reason.
Some things are hopeless.
Actually you don't have to involve the fire dept. For years Detroit has experienced "Hell Night" which was the night before Halloween. People set abandoned buildings on fire all night and kept the fire dept. extremely busy. I don't know how this started, but it has gone on for years. It is rarely reported in the national news.
Downtown has some nice restaurants but the traffic and parking is horrendous. Plus you have to drive thru any given war zone to get there. Except for hockey, there is nothing downtown that you can't find in the more upscale cities like Troy or Birmingham anyway.....
This winter's Super Bowl is going to be fun to watch. Who the hell wants to walk around downtown Detroit in the middle of the winter? I suspect most of the people coming to town will be staying in the suburbs anyway. A super bowl in Miami is a hell of a lot more attractive than a super bowl in downtown Detroit...........
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