Posted on 08/06/2008 6:44:43 AM PDT by Westlander
His first experience with downtown Cleveland was bad....be got in to the hotel late. Tried to find something to eat...nothing open. That's not overly unusual, but when he tried to get something delivered, no places (he tried several) would come because it was "too hazardous" or "against policy".
He didn't starve or anything, but it was an eyeopener for him.
ahh, yeah, that would be correct. Too early in the morning still.
If Obama wins the whole US will look like Detroit in 4 years.
What, Flint is not dead yet? I was working demolition, and we tore down about half that town twenty-five years ago!
A business woman in my local area is Hispanic and a Democrat but won’t vote for Obama this coming November.
She stated that the history of black-run governments around the Caribbean is so bad and thoroughly corrupt that she could never vote for someone who is black. And she says she’s not a racist, just a practical person who looks at what works and what doesn’t.
Come back in 4 years and ask the people in these cities if The Messiah, Obama, has changed anything.
It doesn’t take much crap to ruin a pristine spring.
I live in the suburbs of one and I have also been on FR for longer than a week.
We’re not #1.
Granholm commutes Bloomfield Hills woman’s life sentence
Detroit News | 8-5-08 | George Hunter
Posted on 08/05/2008 11:25:17 PM PDT by Impy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057253/posts
I'm not a Cleveland native, but I lived there for a few years. While it's certainly not a garden spot, I wouldn't go so far as to say that it doesn't have any redeeming qualities. The summers are really quite pleasant and for a city of its size, the traffic is light. Its symphony is among the best in the world and, as someone mentioned above, its hospitals, particularly the Clinic, are world-class. Once you get out into the suburbs, the beaches (for a lake) and the parks are quite nice.
I'd also note that other than the winters, which are really just an inconvenience, it's an excellent spot on which to build a city. There are no floods, no hurricanes, no tornados, no earthquakes, and it has access to one of the largest supplies of freshwater in the world.
Cleveland has two major problems: the winters and the taxes. In Minneapolis, many of the buildings downtown are connected by tunnels and skywalks so as to keep people out of the cold in the wintertime. Cleveland should do this but, to my knowledge, it has no plans to do so. It should also improve access to the lakefront downtown. The lack of an accessible lakefront is embarrassing (it was also a mistake to put Browns Stadium on the waterfront). Lowering taxes would be a big improvement, too.
Might I add that although my husband and I would love to escape the People’s Republic of Cleveland, it’s very difficult to find a salary figure that compares to what we can earn in Cleveland. We’re too old and experienced! Folks from Toledo that are our age and youngsters from adjacent counties still move to the big city because that’s where the good paying jobs are. Luckily, we haven’t reached Detroit status quite yet.
A century from now, Detroit will mostly have reverted to grasslands and forests.
It'll probably be turned into a national park- Come See the Ruins of a 20th Century Industrial City!
There really isn't any real way or reason for Detroit to recover. It's on a permanent downward spiral, and we might as well let it keep going.
Political Correctness and its legislated facet, “hate speech”,
are simply about punishing anyone who tells the truth about a liberal policy.
yeah they are.
It is far from paradise, nor the safe and prosperous Newark that my family lived in (1920s-1960s) but it is a better place than it was 15 years ago, and is nowhere near as bad as certain other armpits in the state (Camden and Trenton).
The Inland Empire is becoming more of a toilet than LA, IMHO.
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