Beautiful downtown Detroit
Posted on 08/11/2010 8:07:51 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Imagine a city where all the major economic planks of the statist or "progressive" platform have been enacted:
* A "living wage" ordinance, far above the federal minimum wage, for all public employees and private contractors.
* A school system that spends significantly more per pupil than the national average.
* A powerful school employee union that militantly defends the exceptional pay, benefits and job security it has won for its members.
* A powerful government employee union that does the same for its members.
* A tax system that aggressively redistributes income from businesses and the wealthy to the poor and to government bureaucracies.
Would this be a shining city on a hill, exciting the admiration of all? We don't have to guess, because there is such a city right here in our state: Detroit
Detroit has been dubbed "the most liberal city in America" and each of these "progressive" policies is alive and well there. Let's look at how this has worked out...
(Excerpt) Read more at mackinac.org ...
MI ping
Generally, I’m not on the side of the “this has already been posted” types. But after the 47th or 48th time you see something...
With respect, Minn...
Your count may be accurate, but I check Free Republic every day, and I haven’t noticed this article before.
I’m really glad I saw it today. I’m going to send it to a lot of people.
Beautiful downtown Detroit
If it is not working it is because of lack of government subsidies. And, THAT is George Bush’s fault.
Obama wants us all to be like Detroit.
This is a list of duplicate posts on just the first page of the “search” section for the word Detroit. That is what the search function is for.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2551233/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2551217/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2544989/posts
Beautiful downtown Detroit.........Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Fitzpatrick's home.
But their intentions were good.
That says it all.
Two pictures that explain, in Pat Caddell’s words, the “pre-revolutionary” mood of Americans.
Yet, some of us have never seen this article before and appreciate its posting.
Can’t be posted too many times, imho!
Socialist ideas, no matter their provenance, destroy human lives.
Is this thing on?
;^)
Actually, Detroit is Black Pride’s Model City. It’s time to start telling the truth.
Michigan Cong Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick lost her bid for an 8th term...the 8th
incumbent to be ousted by a frustrated electorate. More at enews.earthlink.net ...
"Mommy lost? How'm I gonna pay off my house without Congressional earmarks?"
My previous tagline was "We're all Detroiters, now"...It was supposed to mean that, as a previous poster notes, the liberal cesspool that is the "D" is coming soon to the rest of the country.
Yes, we are all Detroiters now, there is no pleasant, orderly suburb to escape to...
One of these days, the Lions will actually build a good team again. Whenever that is, even God doesn’t know, but it will happen.
Pretty funny.
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