Posted on 07/23/2013 3:38:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
The agonizing death of Detroit is cause for celebration. It’s the first of the liberal-run big cities and states to fall, and we should welcome its collapse with glee.
Yeah, liberals, eventually you do run out of other people’s money.
The blue state model is a terminal disease, and Detroit is its poster child. Only this is one telethon where we should pledge that we won’t pay a single dime to keep the progressive party going a single minute longer.
Detroit represents the epitome of the blue state, Democrat machine liberalism that Barack Obama represents. Well, not one damn cent for Barry’s Kids.
Liberal media mouthpieces like the New York Times are all in a tizzy because the consequences conservatives have been warning America about for years are finally arriving. “We have to step in and save Detroit,” it cries.
We don’t have to do any such thing.
Steven Rattner, writing in the Times, says “But apart from voting in elections, the 700,000 remaining residents of the Motor City are no more responsible for Detroit’s problems than were the victims of Hurricane Sandy for theirs, and eventually Congress decided to help them.” And apart from the iceberg, the Titanic’s maiden voyage went swimmingly.
This is a problem created by the people of Detroit. It’s their problem to solve – without our money.
If you listen to the hand-wringers, you’ll never hear an honest examination of why Detroit is imploding. Nor do they offer any evidence that the half-wits who elected the quarter-wit Democrats governing them have learned anything at all from this trip to the precipice.
The most hilarious arguments are the ones where liberals whine about the middle class fleeing from the city, taking jobs and the tax base with them. Sure, regular folks took a look at the well-governed, stable, crime-free Utopia that was Detroit and thought, “Yeah, we need to get the hell out of here.”
Liberalism and the political, economic and social pathologies it spawned drove everyone out of Detroit who wasn’t feeding at the municipal trough, whether through some form of government job or some form of government handout.
This isn’t a chicken and the egg brainteaser. It’s simple cause and effect. Liberalism turned Detroit into a hideous dump that milked those who contribute to society to pay off the Democrat machine’s constituents who don’t. People didn’t feel like living in a pig sty while serving as piggy banks for corrupt Democrats. The productive decided that while the non-productive might win by voting at the ballot box, the productive would win by voting with their feet.
Yeah, Detroit had some hard knocks. The auto industry collapsed, which is not surprising since it was the blue state model in corporatist form. But every city takes hits. Dallas and Houston have been slammed again and again by the energy sector, and they keep coming back.
Not Detroit. It keeps milking the “GM went bye-bye” excuse, with its apologists never mentioning that GM didn’t just disappear. GM just went to places that didn’t suck.
What did Detroit do about it? Nothing. The auto industry started changing decades ago, but liberals act as if that change somehow excuses Detroit’s legacy of corruption and incompetence. Detroit’s most significant export in decades was Eminem. That’s reason enough to want to see a stake driven through its metaphorical heart.
But, of course it’s all the Republicans’ fault…for some reason. Rattner says, “If I thought it could pass Congress, I’d happily support a special appropriation, but the politics of any spending are toxic in Washington these days.” Yeah, it is toxic to suggest that those of us who didn’t vote in a succession of criminals to run our governments give our money to morons who did. And, in any sane universe, no one would ever suggest doing so.
But this is the Times, the voice of Big Liberalism. It opines that, “America is just as much about aiding those less fortunate as it is about personal responsibility.” Except, America isn’t about “aiding the less fortunate.” It’s about the “less fortunate” working to make themselves “more fortunate” – understanding that liberals think people become financially stable not through hard work but by dumb luck.
Not surprisingly, in a Times article referring to the miserable condition of a city run by a liberal Democrat machine for half a century, there is no mention of either liberalism or Democrats. That’s like writing about obesity and not mentioning food.
The liberal elite, which loves root causes, absolutely refuses to admit that the root cause of Detroit’s woes is liberalism itself. Liberals are like a drunk who wants the benefits of sobriety while continuing to hoist highballs. Step One is admitting that their ideology has a problem.
Fat chance. For liberalism, the answer is “5,” and it’s the “2 + 2” that’s somehow screwed up.
We conservatives should sit back and giggle as liberalism hits bottom. No, Detroit’s collapse won’t teach liberals anything. The big cities and the blue states will fail no matter what. Liberalism is the locust of political ideologies; it will eat everything in sight and then starve.
But Detroit may serve a useful purpose once again as a cautionary example for future generations, so for that reason as well we should welcome its passing. And as it dies, the last words ringing in its ears should be the voices of laughing conservatives saying, “We told you so.”
Maybe not so much “laugh” as make sure the point is driven home that Detroit was run for FIFTY YEARS under full democrat control, no conservative was involved in its destruction,
and this result can be FULLY EXPECTED when democrats run the government.
No offense but you lack critical comprehension skills.
We can keep this up all day, butt-hurt.
Was going to be my point... kinda like warning someone not to build their house on the sand, but they do anyway... then, when they get swept away by the storm... well, it’s a sad thing to behold.
“The best thing that could happen is total abandonment of the city.”
And where would the scum move?
Detroit today...United States tomorrow. There is no free lunch...just someone else’s lunch.
New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago..... Anywhere voters continually vote democrat.
It’s going to take me awhile to get that visual out of my head.
Its pretty clear that you just don’t have what it takes.
Nobody said anything about letting them slide.
Detroit isn’t going anywhere and that’s a simple fact that you’re going to have to face. Either we let Democrats have their way again or we find solutions on our own.
If conservatives want to behave exactly as the Texas protesters, I say wear those tampon earrings with pride but don’t count on me to do it.
We must not enable evil. Above all, we must not cast about for a way to save it, or perpetuate it!
Detroit has become a cancer and nothing can save it. Its only value now is as an awful and risible example.
We must not echo liberal pieties about needing to save it. Watch it crash and burn! Laugh at and deride the racist madmen who destroyed it!
But if Detroit does not become a byword for corruption and municipal narcissism - if we solemnly pledge to 'save Detroit' - then there really is no help for America.
You are wrong....we should be laughing.
The vermin left in Detroit are the same maggots that caused it to fail.
The reason for celebration is that this is “the poster boy” so to speak for liberalism and Democrat rule in our country. Celebration is due to the fact that this is the first example to the voting public that Socialism and Marxism does not work in a free society......and it is finally starting to fail.
Yes! Celebration is sorely due.
I have enough of what it takes to leave you unable to refute the facts and logic of my post.
Because for thousands of years civilized society mocked and shunned their ‘liberals’ to ensure their insanity stayed contained. Tampon earings not required. A simple “Idipt, your stupidity created your dilemma. Choke on it” should suffice nicely.
I will be very “pissed off” if they use one single dime of my tax money to bail out this liberal bastion of FAIL.
Clowns like you are nothing but little Obama clones. Zero courage and nothing but hate. You’re just as happy to destroy the country as Obama.
You may go now, boy.
Democrats have stood by idly as the hope and prosperity of the citizens of Detroit has been slowly but steadily destroyed from within. Election after election, the same mold of bureaucrats survived while the city itself died. But now and only now do the alarm bells sound, and only because the bureaucrats have run out of other people's money.
If Detroit still had creditors left that were willing to extend it more loans, this story wouldn't be on the front page. And the decay of the citizens would continue unabated with zero empathy from the ruling Democrat class.
Excellent observation.
14 Cities That Are Being Eaten Alive By Public Sector Workers
http://www.businessinsider.com/cities-that-are-being-eaten-alive-by-their-employees-2011-7?op=1
The reason why public-sector pension costs have not been addressed is that the full bill has never been revealed to taxpayers.
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13988606
Top Ten Most Dangerous Cities in America (Each Led by a Democrat)
http://www.examiner.com/article/top-ten-most-dangerous-cities-america-each-led-by-a-democrat
The First 10 City Pensions That Will Run Out Of Money
http://www.businessinsider.com/first-city-pensions-insolvent-2010-12?slop=1#slideshow-start
heckuva a job, ‘rats !
“14 Cities That Are Being Eaten Alive By Public Sector Workers.”
That is a very succinct headline.
Detroit will vote 80% DNC in the next election. Nothing will be learned.
Pray for America to Wake Up
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