Posted on 01/02/2011 9:37:18 AM PST by hcmama
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's extraordinary photographs documenting the dramatic decline of a major American city
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
I was there like 10 years ago and saw an aerial photo of Tigers stadium. Even then it looked like you could take a D-9 Cat and work hard for 3 days and turn the whole city back into prime farm ground. Along about that time I read that Detroit residents were spotting pheasants growing wild within the city limits. I'm sure it's even worse now.
Let's hope they see the light.
The Guardian was, and is, fully supportive of the policies that created this nightmare.
The Triumph of Socialism.
ML/NJ
PING!
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Masterful photography of the effect of liberalism on a great city.
I don't understand why the furniture and fixtures in these places have not been salvaged. I want the chairs from the Presbyterian Church!
This city is just a sampling of the Deathwish obama has for the entire 57 states.
Destruction by savages who would not know where to place the first line on a drawing.
The thing about Detroit is that it was once among our wealthiest cities.
ML/NJ
I was in Detroit after the riots. I attended a convention that was held in the big glass towers. Word was that there were more cops in the towers than on the street. Until they put the hammer down on those people it will continue in every major city in the country. They are nothing but animals.
Pheasants in the city? That’s actually wonderful.
The total dollar value of the damage done to US cities by the War on Poverty (and its successors) far, far exceeds the dollar value of the damage done to London by the Luftwaffe in WWII.
Detroit, Tragedy of the Commons
——It needs to be leveled and turned into pasture.——
The current mayor has proposed just that. There are neighborhoods for which services are provided and almost no people. The proposal is to cease services to these near dead neighborhoods, move the few remaining residents, mainly older single women, into refurbished city owned residences in thriving neighborhoods.
The vacated areas will in fact be plowed under and de annexed
He has a workable plan that could solve many problems
The fruits of governance by those with low IQ and poor impulse control.
or the Amish...
I guess these images of these beautiful buildings with their brilliant architecture left to molder away looked like something you see when a civilization is destroyed. The books rotting away in the library especially get to me.
We haven't pumped enough tax dollars into the city.
All the best cities in the country receive all the wealth transfer while Detroit is left out to dry.
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