St Louis
People really need to man up and take a look around and stop acting like liberals living in denial.
Posted on 06/09/2014 11:23:32 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Or.. Democratrina.
Far more destructive than any bomb or hurricane, Democrat locusts destroy lay waste to Detroit.
This is the 'progress' they want for the rest of America.
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My part of NY state is doing just fine.
There was a recent NY Times article on some hedge fund manager who raises goats in his spare time.
He was sending goats into overgrown detroit neighborhoods and letting them clean up the place.
One bureaucrat’s only concern was that it was illegal to graze animals in Detroit. Such is the mind of a democRat.
Actually that’s another problem. Detroit city government doesn’t want those properties cleaned up. There’s more federal money to be had the worse the decay is. Neighbors would often mow grass but the city comes after them for back taxes if they do.
There are abandoned homes in Jackson Michigan near me but they don’t look as bad because the city boards them up tight and keeps grass mowed. Within a few years they tear them down.
You for damned sure are not in central or western NY, the crapitol region I’m sure is doing just fine
Um, hint....my name? I am in south central NY. A Republican county.
LOL!
What on earth made you think I was talking about you?
You don’t have like a looooong photo compilation of other sh—holes, do you?
And a weird fixation with defending a city you don’t live in?
And the temper of a hand grenade?
Not you...hahaha!
Nonsense....Tioga county and Owego looks as bad as the rest of central & western NY.
No Amish in Japan.
Incredible—CHANGE!
Wow, that’s even more dysfunctional than I thought.
They PUNISH people for doing what most folks would say was a “good” thing.
Well, such is leftism in general.
Rebpulican Big City Mayors are an Endangered Species".
Are Austin, Phoenix, Dallas and Houston post-Hirosshima hell holes? No. Is Portland, OR?
Best Cities to Live in the US.
At least 1/2 of those have been controlled by Dems for a long time (Austin, San Fran, Portland, Boulder, San Diego). Even if you slightly disagree with the list none of them are anything like Detroit.
So, your thesis doesn't stand up to even casual rebuttal.
Hmm, so what could it be? What makes for a really bad city?
Here is the list Detroit heads, courtesy of Forbes:
The 10 Most Dangerous Cities in the USA:
Anything stick out? Anything at all? How about this:
Here is the list of the Blackest cities in America based on 2010 census data, via Wikipedia.
I have taken out cities < 200,000 people to make it match the Forbes list above:
Rank, City, Percentage Black, Number of Black Residents
Hopefully, as conservatives, we can talk about difficult facts honestly and not use inaccurate generalizations in an attempt to remain PC.
The percentage of blacks in a city very closely correlates as an indicator of the likelihood that any given city will resemble Detroit as an uninhabitable high-crime hell-hole.
Mere Democratic party controlled government does not. Actually, we all sort of know this, but even on Free Republic no one really wants to come out and say it.
There is a book on the case of Detroit: Escape from Detroit:The Collapse of America's Black Metropolis
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Bump for later.
Dems answer to this in MN would be to run a billion dollar choo choo by it and call it ‘revitalized’.
But here’s the thing. Where do the blacks that are of the Travon mentality go? Dem controlled ares. Why? symbiotic relationship.
Another characteristic of Blacks, as a group, is there amazingly strong proclivity for voting Democratic. 93% voted for Obama, for instance. No other group comes even close to that level of group-think and block voting.
Once a city gets to being 30% Black or so, it's going to be Democrat-ruled on account of this. Once it gets to 50% it's going to Black Democrats running things. In Detroit that meant Mayor Coleman Young, a corrupt, vicious, thuggish anti-White racist who ruled Detroit for 20 years. John Conyer's wife, Detroit City Counselor, in prison for bribery. Kwamie Kirkpatrick, another former Mayor of Detroit -in prison for Felony corruption. William Hart, the Chief of Police - stole $2.6 million dollars from the evidence locker.
Portland, Oregon (6.3% black) has had a string of corrupt Dems too, none Black either. But it's a different type of corruption. Goldschmidt (who went on to be Governor) was banging a 14 year old babysitter when he was mayor. Disgusting, but not really destroying the city in the process. The papers covered up for him till the statue of limitations ran out. Vera Katz, his successor, wasn't ever accused of financial corruption. The last guy, Sam Adams, gay fellow, was banging a 17 year old boy shortly before his election to Mayor, but no one would testify against him so he claimed they "just kissed", and got away with it. Again, gross, but not the same as looting the treasury.
Once found out corrupt R's always have to go. But even most corrupt D's have to go, unless they are black. Look at Rangel, Conyers and Marion Barry, for instance. It's just not relevant to Black voters, apparently.
Years of this helped destroy Detroit, the willingness of the citizens to elect super-corrupt Black politicians.
Sad, and not just Detroit.
Detroit could be rebuilt too... but there’s no reason to bother because the same people who destroyed it would destroy it again.
If tomorrow every Democrat had to move out of Detroit - and the land was given to conservatives of ANY ethnic group - the city would rebuilt itself.
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