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Shrinking Detroit has 12,000 abandoned homes
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| Sun Aug 14, 5:03 PM ET
Posted on 08/15/2005 3:32:16 AM PDT by TimeLord
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Just a week ago, Detroit was named the most liberal city in America. Now it's in utter decay. Can the liberal media make the connection? NOPE!
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:32:17 AM PDT
by
TimeLord
To: TimeLord
"Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear." I want to survive, therefore I must be racist to avoid SE DC.
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:35:27 AM PDT
by
palmer
(If you see flies at the entrance to the burrow, the ground hog is probably inside)
To: TimeLord
Well maybe now folks will have a place to stay during the Super Bowl.
To: TimeLord
The schools are bad. The roads are full of potholes. Crime is high and so are taxes. The city is in a budget crisis so deep it could end up being run by the state.Welcome to the "most liberal" city in the United States.
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:36:57 AM PDT
by
MichiganMan
(Thank Michael Moore for 2004!!)
To: TimeLord
What's with all the Detroit pieces lately? It's bad enough having to live by it, now I have to read about it all the time too. Bleech.
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:37:05 AM PDT
by
ShadowDancer
(As for the types of comments I make,sometimes I just, By God,get carried away with my own eloquence.)
To: TimeLord
My husband had to fly there this morning. He'll be there for 3 days. He'd rather go anywhere but Detroit. No offense, I'm sure there are parts of the city he hasn't seen which are nice, but what he has seen, he doesn't care for.
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:37:27 AM PDT
by
kassie
("It's the soldier who allows freedom of speech, not the reporter..")
To: TimeLord
Sorta reminds a person of what happens when the "colonial powers" leave an African country...
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:37:30 AM PDT
by
chadwimc
To: TimeLord
"but the lead creeping out of crumbling bricks and peeling paint drifts in through her windows."
Lead in bricks?
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:37:42 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
("Run Hillary Run" bumper stickers. Liberals place on rear bumper, conservatives put on front bumper)
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:40:18 AM PDT
by
TimeLord
(A whale fetus is a whale; a human fetus is a blob.)
To: TimeLord
"If you call and ask (the city) about it they say they don't have the funds to tear it down." I don't know. A couple of well placed sticks of TNT couldn't cost that much.
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:40:27 AM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: TimeLord
Crime is high and so are taxesAnother connection to the population loss that they seem unable to make!
To: TimeLord
"helped lure young professionals and spark redevelopment in some of the more desirable neighborhoods"
If the chardonnay socialists are intent on moving back to the city, perhaps we should too eh? </sacrasm>
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:42:35 AM PDT
by
NZerFromHK
("US libs...hypocritical, naive, pompous...if US falls it will be because of these" - Tao Kit (HK))
To: TimeLord
on the cutting edge of emminent domain, islamist stronghold...well, all that's irrelevant, i'm sure. But Ted Nugent is from there, that's cool.
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:43:48 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(see my FR page for a link to the tribute to Terri Schaivo, a short video presentation.)
To: TimeLord
"What made Detroit's experience so stark was the lack of regional planning and the ease with which developments were able to incorporate into new cities in order to avoid sharing their tax revenue with the city, said Margaret Dewar, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan."
This is the reason so many are so fond of the concept of 'smart development' and opposed to 'suburban sprawl'. They want to prevent you from moving out of slums like Detriot so they can have your tax money to spend on liberal programs that created the slums in the first place.
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:46:36 AM PDT
by
DugwayDuke
(Stupidity can be a self-correcting problem.)
To: the invisib1e hand
Ted moved from here to Crawford, Texas not long ago. One of the last conservative "high profile" people in Michigan took off... leaving us to fend for ourselves.
To: TimeLord
"Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear."
Racism? No
Fear of violent crime? Yes.
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:48:07 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: TimeLord
"Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism REALITY and fear."
To: TimeLord
But first the city has to get rid of the crumbling buildings that haunt the streets, luring criminals, arsonists and wild animals and creating a general sense of hopelessness.Well... yes, but aside from the crumbling buildings, criminals, arsonists and wild animals, its white people's racism that is keeping people out of Detroit.
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:48:15 AM PDT
by
MichiganMan
(Thank Michael Moore for 2004!!)
To: NZerFromHK
no housing bubble in Detroit at least
To: palmer
I want to survive, therefore I must be racist to avoid SE DC.Bingo!
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posted on
08/15/2005 3:49:43 AM PDT
by
Shalom Israel
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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