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Government Motors Is Alive And Detroit Is Dead
Investor's Business Daily ^
| July 19, 2013
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Posted on 07/19/2013 3:38:40 PM PDT by raptor22
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posted on
07/19/2013 3:38:40 PM PDT
by
raptor22
To: raptor22
I knew a guy that lived in a high-rise in downtown Detroit in the early 1990s.
He would hit golf balls (full swing) from his living room out the sliding glass doors over the rail (most of the time) into a city that was dead empty.
Similar to the scene in the movie “Fight Club” but from the 25 floor.
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posted on
07/19/2013 3:45:31 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
To: raptor22
I first traveled to downtown Detroit on business in 1992 to visit a company (a tape duplicator) that was right next to the Ford HQ. I got off on the freeway and drove down the ramp and then to the company. I had never seen an American city so dilapidated and run down as I did that day.
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posted on
07/19/2013 3:51:46 PM PDT
by
Hotlanta Mike
("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
To: Zeneta
Out here on the perimeter we stoned, immaculate.
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posted on
07/19/2013 3:53:34 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
To: raptor22
Yep. Decades and decades of liberal governance and union thuggery
has killed a once active city.
To: raptor22
What you call “Detroit” is really just the nose of a camel under the side of a tent.
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:02:54 PM PDT
by
fhayek
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:03:45 PM PDT
by
raptor22
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:03:51 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: raptor22
There’s nothing wrong with Motown that a few billion Baraqqqi/Bernanke/Lew minibucks won’t fix (at least until Nov 2016).
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:09:00 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: raptor22
The reason predominantly black cities are going broke is because white cities are big meanies who don’t accept them.
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:17:34 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Department of Justice to Americans:'How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?')
To: raptor22
The reason predominantly black cities are going broke is because white cities are big meanies who don’t accept them.
(Really - it has nothing to do with corruption, skim, or bad choices. /s)
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:18:33 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Department of Justice to Americans:'How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?')
To: nascarnation
...a few billion Baraqqqi/Bernanke/Lew minibucks wont fix... Wheelbarrow City.
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:23:40 PM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
To: OKSooner
What kind of a fornicated-up haiku is that?
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:24:47 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
To: NonValueAdded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yogw44ehpOk
:)
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:29:54 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:30:04 PM PDT
by
raptor22
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To: raptor22
Has the retiring Carl Levin said anything yet?
-PJ
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:35:06 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: OKSooner
The movie will begin in five moments
All those unseated will await the next show.
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posted on
07/19/2013 4:51:45 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
To: raptor22
Ayn Rand very clearly outlined what MUST happen when the takers outnumber the producers -— the producers leave.
The productive citizens of Detroit have gone Galt.
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posted on
07/19/2013 5:06:52 PM PDT
by
Walrus
(America died on November 6, 2012 --- RIP)
To: raptor22
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posted on
07/19/2013 5:17:46 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: Hotlanta Mike
I first traveled to downtown Detroit on business in 1992 to visit a company (a tape duplicator) that was right next to the Ford HQ."The one and only time I was in Detroit was to visit a National Guard facility (for work purposes, circa 1995).
After leaving the interstate, we traversed a few dozen blocks of dilapidated houses with a couple of denizens out and about.
The Armory had serious fencing with concertina wire atop it. Across the street was a church that was probably very nice in 1937. It had a huge tree growing out of the broken stained glass window in front.
The whole thing was very creepy and I was glad we made the suburbs before nightfall.
Can only imagine what that area looks like today.
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