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Detroit: The Moral of the Story (What can we learn from a rich, productive city that was ruined?)
National Review ^ | 06/09/2012 | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 06/09/2012 10:03:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 06/09/2012 10:03:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 06/09/2012 10:11:28 AM PDT by fhayek
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The third lesson is moral. Detroit’s institutions have long been marked by corruption, venality, and self-serving. Healthy societies have high levels of trust. Who trusts Detroit? This is not angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin stuff. People do not invest in firms, industries, cities, or countries they do not trust. Corruption makes people poor.

Nathan Bedford's first Maxim of American politics: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.

This entire article declines to discuss the elephant in the room.


3 posted on 06/09/2012 10:27:36 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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He sure did a tap dance around the issue of the third-world mentality that accompanies the takeover of cities by tribals.

They run them just like Indian reservations. Corruption is merely a symptom of the tribal takeover, not a cause.


4 posted on 06/09/2012 10:32:37 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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The article also didn’t address the problem, “When you have big corporations, you will have big unions.”


5 posted on 06/09/2012 10:32:37 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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Thanks for saying, I agree.

Too bad political correctness has paralyzed our society to the point we can not be honest in self evalulation. The rot that is happening in Detriot is playing out in every large city in this country, whether we want to accept that fact or not.

6 posted on 06/09/2012 10:34:26 AM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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Unfortunately, it, most probably, never will...


7 posted on 06/09/2012 10:36:22 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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This entire article declines to discuss the elephant in the room.

Detroit has been smelling strongly of peanuts since 1967.

8 posted on 06/09/2012 10:37:15 AM PDT by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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Y'can't fix stupid,

But'cha' can vote 'em out.

9 posted on 06/09/2012 10:42:54 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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10 posted on 06/09/2012 10:51:50 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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This entire article declines to discuss the elephant in the room.

The Derbyshire episode was proof The National Review is either too PC or too chicken sh!t to discuss race openly. As a 25 year subscriber, I won't be sending that card back in again.


11 posted on 06/09/2012 10:52:20 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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The article doesn't address one of the main problems...Forced busing from K-12. Put your kid on a bus and have them a hour away at another school to even up the colors....If the kid misses the bus to come home, then what. 1/2 the time parents didn't even know how to get to the schools....middle class blacks and whites moved out as fast as they could....Black parents didn't like it any more than white parents....shhhhh, don't tell anyone that placed a part...only left the poor and non taxpayers in the city...I know, I lived there.....

In fact during the early 60's and late 50's homes in detroit were expensive when compared to the new suburban subdivisions that went up. Bussing only went on in the city and your kids could walk to school....

12 posted on 06/09/2012 10:53:04 AM PDT by goat granny
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13 posted on 06/09/2012 10:55:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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>The article also didn’t address the problem, “When you have big corporations, you will have big unions.”

Probably because it wasn’t meant to be published on the DU or Huffington Post.


14 posted on 06/09/2012 11:08:43 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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Two events seem to give a hint about what happened.
1. Clinton put a tax on yachts and the boat yards that make them. The rich just bought their yachts in Europe and the 3rd world. The American boat yards had to close—We got no new taxes and lots of Americans lost their jobs. Then, the Navy needed to build wooden hulled mine sweepers and there was no American Boatyards to build them! They were closed.
2. In the Middle Ages the church helped to promote the fear of witches. Many “strange” and non-conformist men and women were arrested and many put to death. One rumor was that witchs used cats to get messages from Satan. cats were collected and burned! They had big parties for these events and they saw this as fighting Satan. No cats, the rat population grew—then fleas from rats carried the Black death killing 1/4 of the population of Europe. The cats had their revenge! Actions have consequences you may not see—but that will come back to haunt you.


15 posted on 06/09/2012 11:29:22 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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This entire article declines to discuss the elephant in the room.

You hit the nail on the head and saved me some typing.

16 posted on 06/09/2012 1:23:13 PM PDT by OldMissileer
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With all due respect, as a Clinton detractor, the yacht tax was passed by Congress and signed by Father Bush. I used to do deliveries in the boat building area of Costa Mesa (think Newport Beach). It was always a pain to find a place to park, until the tax passed. Within a year, there was plenty of parking, just no vehicles or commerce. Thank you.


17 posted on 06/09/2012 1:25:22 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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The State of Michigan has been trying to appoint an Emergency Manager for the City of Detroit. They seemed sort of o.k. with it until they realized they would virtually lose control, so they whined and stomped their feet and filed a lawsuit.

Yesterday on the radio news break, the story was that Detroit will be out of money by June 15 unless the state steps in to help out with some cash.

The state responded by saying they wouldn’t give them anything as long as they were the target of the City’s lawsuit.

I hope our governor sticks to his guns on this. That would be sweet!


18 posted on 06/09/2012 1:42:39 PM PDT by kevslisababy
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It’s not race, it’s the mentality that’s was fostered by liberalism and taught to the kids and families. I’ve seen this mentality in England with whites who do nothing more than suck off the government tit for a living.


19 posted on 06/09/2012 1:43:42 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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This entire article declines to discuss the elephant in the room.

That certainly figures into the story, but Atlanta hasn't collapsed for being a majority black city run for decades by blacks. Business still finds it an attractive place to locate and there's work.

Ultimately, it all comes down to the imperative that man must work to survive (or someone must work for him.) When government hinders our ability to make a living, only bad things can result.

20 posted on 06/09/2012 1:54:00 PM PDT by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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