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A city defined (Detroit can be saved by Smart Growth)
Boston Globe ^
| 2/12/2011
| Renée Loth
Posted on 02/11/2011 9:28:43 PM PST by wheresmyusa
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To: wheresmyusa
Wouldn’t “Smart Contraction” be more accurate?
To: wheresmyusa
The only thing that can bring Detroit back is liberty. I’m not holding my breath.
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:31:34 PM PST
by
Patrick1
("The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine." - Abraham Lincoln)
To: wheresmyusa
Yeah. It is a city on the cusp.
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:32:07 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Lazlo in PA
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:32:40 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
Tears rolling out my eyes laughing.
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:34:18 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: wheresmyusa
Detroit passed the tipping point back in the Sixties. It’s too late to do anything but plow it back into the farmland from which it emerged a century ago.
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:35:10 PM PST
by
Publius
To: wheresmyusa
" It will take a national urban policy the likes of which the United States hasnt seen for 40 years. " Uh, Detroit is the RESULT of that policy.
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:35:31 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(The Name of the Game is BAILOUT.)
To: wheresmyusa
I guess i should have added a barf warning or /sarc or something, this is a terrible joke.
To: Lazlo in PA
That is just sad. You can tell that those houses were nice places in their prime.
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:35:59 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Publius
It’s called White Flight.
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:36:32 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER; Domestic Church; rightly_dividing; combat_boots; bronxville; cripplecreek; Gipper08; ..
To: wheresmyusa
t was a goosebump moment for sure. It didn't give me goosebumps. Instead my inclination was to hurl when the spot came on.
- Eminem is mentally retarded and a liberal. (But I repeat myself).
- Detroit is a cesspool inhabited by third-world thugs and sub-humans babbling in Arabic.
- The region is held in a death grip by evil union bosses and their enablers.
- Chrysler (and GM) should have been allowed to fail.
RIGHT TO WORK must be the law. Unite against unions! Stand for liberty and not big labor's tyranny!
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:37:04 PM PST
by
re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
To: Lazlo in PA
True. I was just being polite.
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:37:30 PM PST
by
Publius
To: wheresmyusa
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:37:54 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
To: Lazlo in PA
Its called White Flight. Yes, that's absolutely right. Hmmm...I wonder what caused the good, productive people to flee? Hmmm....dare we say it even here on FR?
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:39:11 PM PST
by
re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
To: wheresmyusa
Nobody wants to admit that when technology allowed companies to operate from less urban areas (where they wouldn’t have to house, feed, and “educate” a large population of our permanent underclass with tax revenues), then the city model was doomed. Terms like “city cooling centers” (where ghetto people are supposed to go when it gets hot in the summer) duidn’t even exist ten years ago; now Nanny State will monitor your body temperature in addition to providing you with housing, food, etc.
As long as we don’t have these discussions, our cities will continue to rot while our government pretends they aren’t, and “normal” people will be indifferent while pretending to care.
To: wheresmyusa
Is this guy serious?
Or is this a joke?
Socialism is why Detroit is a hellhole.
More Socialism will make it WORST, not better...
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:40:17 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
(Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
To: wheresmyusa
Big government plus unionism equal Detroit. I defy any
liberal to rebut this.
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:40:22 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: Army Air Corps
Nice does not describe it. If these places were anywhere other than a Socialist onclave, they would be million dollar properties.
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posted on
02/11/2011 9:40:24 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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