Hiroshima today
Today's Detroit Neighborhoods look like this.
Tiger Stadium
Hiroshima today
Today's Detroit Neighborhoods look like this.
Tiger Stadium
Detroit looks like Havana, where buildings fall on people regularly.
Just a locally grown scion of a criminal Democratic political family.
Tiger stadium is long gone.
Yes, what about professional baseball? Justin Verlander better make sure that check clears before warming up...
Bump
If people keep arguing and believing that "big greedy business" did it, then there is no hope for America. "Voters" will keep on electing the same old destroyers...and destroyers do what they do...destroy.
The lesson that should be learned from this is to start, from the next elections, installing people into positions of power who know at least economics 101a. Otherwise, the big cities will fall like dominoes into rack and ruin..
To be fair, a good deal of Detroit's prosperity was based on a tacit agreement between the car companies and the UAW to plunder the American public.
The car companies caved in to UAW demands and passed on the costs to the customer, and also produced sub-standard cars. Worked fine as long as Americans had no other cars to buy.
Then we discovered that Japan and other countries produced better cars at lower prices, and the conspiracy to defraud the American public fell apart.
It's easy to be prosperous if you have a monopoly on a necessary product. But only as long as you can maintain your monopoly.
Traitorous liberals (aka Demonrats) love evil and hate the United States, so they feel no shame for wrecking Detroit. Their own socially redeeming value is to be tried and convicted for treason and to provide rope makers with employment.
The Democrat party.....a culture of thievery, arrogance and incompetence.
Well, Unions had a big hand in destroying Detroit too. With liberal enablers, Unions just kept ratcheting up the benefit scale to the point where they were extorting money from the industries in Detroit.
Industry did what was natural, out source to cheap labor elsewhere in order to maintain competitiveness, draining jobs and driving people who actually want to work for a living away, while those on the public dole stayed and increased the burdens of the city.
Liberals, not wanting to lose their constituencies kept the money flowing in wages, benefits and compensation to city workers and subsistence recipients while hiding the problems so that they remained unimpeded by reality.
So now we see what the eventual demise of big liberal city bastions is going to look like. California will eventually experience the same problems. More and more quality entertainment is being outsourced to Canada, so even Hollywood isn’t immune.
Kick out all the politicians in Detroit, take all the illegal aliens that Obama wants to grant amnesty to and just give them Detroit.
“Shame” is not a word found in liberals’ vocabulary. Nor are: conscience, truth, facts, honesty, virtue, integrity, humility, responsibility, accountability.
Just as bad is the fact of the suffering from the legacy the late Mayor Coleman Young, who effectively drove all the productive people out of town (regardless of race) and reduced the city to a decayed ruin that in many parts reminds us of Mogadishu in Somalia currently! There is effectively no hope for the 700,000 people remaining, and that may drop to under 500,000 in a few years at the rate things are going.
In the end, besides the Chapter 9 bankruptcy, I personally think the following needs to be done to Detroit:
1. Raze every crumbling building in the city.
2. Reduce the physical size of the Detroit city limits to something much smaller, and the remain areas subdivided into smaller, manageable towns.
3. Get rid of the current city government and have it directly managed from the Michigan state capital for the next 4-5 years.
4. Turn all of Wayne County into a permanent enterprise zone and focus its economic base away from the automobile industry and towards trade between the USA and Canada per NAFTA agreements. After all, a huge fraction of the goods trade between Canada and Detroit goes through Detroit now anyway.
5. Build a second highway crossing between Detroit and Windsor, ON that directly connects Interstates 94 and 75 on the Detroit side and Ontario Highway 401 (the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway) on the Windsor side. This will expedite goods trade between Detroit and Windsor and end the bottleneck of the Ambassador Bridge between the two cities.
What city’s next?
Ashamed? Yeah right. The commuracists (not liberals) are proud of Detroit, as it has been saved from the clutches of capitalism.
I saw a car full of little kids driving by. One back window rolls down and out comes a load of fast food trash. Cups, trays, bags all over the highway... Was it mom instructing the back seat? Or an unruly child? No body looked back that I saw.
How about this one? Actual story from a realtor who was just in training during the 'white flight'. They'd call every white homeowner and warn them, hey you don't want to be the last white person on your block do you?
Or this? Relating how many times his house had been broken into, I asked this older black gentleman if he shouldn't get himself a gun. His response was if did that he'd have to fear for his life rather than just his stuff they keep stealing.
There are huge societal problems in this town, but you know what's also interesting? Virtually no one is talking about the Zimmerman trial.