Posted on 06/09/2012 10:03:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Self ping for later reading
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.
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.
The article also didn’t address the problem, “When you have big corporations, you will have big unions.”
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.
Unfortunately, it, most probably, never will...
Detroit has been smelling strongly of peanuts since 1967.
But'cha' can vote 'em out.
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.
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....
>The article also didnt 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.
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.
You hit the nail on the head and saved me some typing.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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