[CriticalJ]

“It’s really sad what has happened to this once great city.”

It’s also sad that most Americans do not see the role of unchecked Democratic leadership and heavy unionization across many areas played in the city’s current state.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

It wasn’t the policies that sunk Detroit, it was just that the policies were not implemented correctly. Yeah, that’s it.

[goat granny]

hate to inform you all but the biggest role in Detroits downhill slide was forced busing and no one except me ever mentions it...I was born in Detroit and lived in the city, but newly married and the cost of housing in detroit led us to the suburbs. That was in 1959. The city was still lovely...forced busing of kids from K-12 so black and white kids could sit in the same room was disgusting to both black and white parents....Hey guys, lets put your kindergarden kid on a bus, ride for 45 minutes and drop him off in a place he/she doesn't know....Middle class black and whites moved out as soon as they could. Left the only citizens the non tax payers and crooks for politicans....

No after school activities cause once the bus left the school, there was no way to get home unless your parents had 2 cars so a parent could pick you up and sometimes with traffic, the ride could take 45 min. to an hour. Back in those days very few people owned 2 cars....most women stayed home to raise the family....by the 70's women went to work usually just to make enough money to pay all the taxes....

The High Schools were all ready integrated...grades 1-6 was within walking distance from your home, grades 7-9 covered a larger area and variety of students...I went to pershing high school, took a regular bus with a discount card as a student, the ROTC when I was in high school actually brought their guns to school one day a week for practice.