Posted on 01/01/2009 8:10:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Wow... surprised the author of this piece wasn't lynched for using such "language."
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related to the above thread about the two EMTs who thought the patient was not worth saving-Detroit-not worth saving.
8 years of Obambi will bring us all to this level.
Detroit is not an American city, it is a middling African one.
A friend of mine actually died in the parking lot on the way in to see a Lions’ pre-season game a few years back while he was up there visiting relatives. He had all his various ID in his wallet, etc., etc. After his wife hadn’t heard from him for a few days, she called his relatives there who eventually found him in the morgue. Yep, those folks up there must be real sharp and caring civil servants!
Somewhere along the way, Detroit became our national ashtray, a safe place for everyone to stub out the butt of their jokes.
I like these not-so-subtle hints that Detroit's predicament is somehow the fault of everyone in America.
I, for one, don't think of Detroit as a "national ashtray" where I can "stub out the butt of [my] jokes."
That's because I try not to think about Detroit at all. Ever since they kicked out every vestige of responsible government because it was too white, I didn't think I had to think about Detroit any more. Their glorious experiment in diversity would take care of itself, and usher in a new age of order, plenty, and fairness for all peoples.
Right?
Detroit is also the most liberal city in all of America...even more the Philadelphia, which is saying something. Detroit has also been run by Democrats for the last 50 years - a detail the author could not bring himself to report.
the city has kicked around every money-making scheme from selling off ownership rights to the tunnel it shares with neighboring Windsor, Canada, to a fast food tax. It's perhaps unsurprising that Detroit now has the most speed traps in the nation.
Except, of course, REDUCING government, REDUCING spending, REDUCING taxes, REDUCING unions and letting people who work hard keep more of what they earn...etc.
The graduation rate is 24.9 percent, the lowest of any large school district in the country.
Yet no one will mess with the teacher's union or the way the school system is run.
Great line.
Not true! We have Dearborn with all the Muzzies. They are protesting for Palestine.
Detroit is where the New Dealers, Fair Dealers, and Great Socialists got everything on their wish list, and where the Maoist Jihadist Illegal Alien Baby-Killer will take the United States—a hell on earth.
Holy carp! Brings a whole new meaning to "we're moving and taking the whole family with us!"
I agree. I don’t know why anybody has any expectations for the place. Its human capital is worthless, and only the weather prevents the populace from returning to their loincloth roots.
Detroit is the “new” Cleveland, all they need is the Detriot River to catch fire and seal the deal.
Detriot also has as many abandoned or destroyed homes as New Orleans, which is saying something..
The socialist utopia of Detroit.
“The graduation rate is 24.9 percent, the lowest of any large school district in the country.
Yet no one will mess with the teacher’s union or the way the school system is run. “
I imagine the real problem is that, since it has been so long since the school system last updated the text books, the books may not be dumbed down to today’s modern standards. They might be too hard to read and study. There may be some real, accurate education related information still sprinkled among the pages.
I’ve lived in a Detroit suburb for a few years. I never go into the city.
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