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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!
1 posted on 08/15/2005 3:32:17 AM PDT by TimeLord
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"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.

2 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)
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Well maybe now folks will have a place to stay during the Super Bowl.


3 posted on 08/15/2005 3:36:43 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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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.

4 posted on 08/15/2005 3:36:57 AM PDT by MichiganMan (Thank Michael Moore for 2004!!)
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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.


5 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.)
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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.


6 posted on 08/15/2005 3:37:27 AM PDT by kassie ("It's the soldier who allows freedom of speech, not the reporter..")
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Sorta reminds a person of what happens when the "colonial powers" leave an African country...


7 posted on 08/15/2005 3:37:30 AM PDT by chadwimc
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"but the lead creeping out of crumbling bricks and peeling paint drifts in through her windows."

Lead in bricks?


8 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)
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"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.

10 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.")
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Crime is high and so are taxes

Another connection to the population loss that they seem unable to make!

11 posted on 08/15/2005 3:40:56 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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"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>


12 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))
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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.


13 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.)
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"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.


14 posted on 08/15/2005 3:46:36 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Stupidity can be a self-correcting problem.)
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"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.
16 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.)
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"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."
17 posted on 08/15/2005 3:48:11 AM PDT by bikepacker67
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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.

18 posted on 08/15/2005 3:48:15 AM PDT by MichiganMan (Thank Michael Moore for 2004!!)
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"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 don't get it. How is someone moving their dead relatives out of the cemetery b/c they're afraid to go to the cemetery showing "the depth of racism"?

22 posted on 08/15/2005 3:51:46 AM PDT by GBA
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This is a great article that I'll tell every lib I hear weezing about "affordable" housing to read.

There's plenty of houaing around it's just not where they want to live.

24 posted on 08/15/2005 3:53:10 AM PDT by ninonitti
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Big cities in America are run by liberals. But none has been so badly mismanaged as Detroit. And it ain't the racism, its just the policy choices made by Detroit's leaders - poor planning, higher taxes and stifling bureaucracy. All of which has set back the city's growth and actually led to its hemorrhaging population. Yes, its the policies, stupid.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
26 posted on 08/15/2005 3:56:49 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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Cool photos of the disappearing history in Detroit, from a Detroit thread a few days ago.
27 posted on 08/15/2005 3:56:50 AM PDT by P.O.E. (.)
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Yes, the most liberal city and the most depressing city.


29 posted on 08/15/2005 3:58:50 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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