Posted on 01/02/2011 9:37:18 AM PST by hcmama
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's extraordinary photographs documenting the dramatic decline of a major American city
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Betcha many other salvage businesses have tried and failed to get permission to do it legally.
You forgot the Corruption that will be worse in all those locals, Just like Detroit's Corruption that is getting cleaned up now...
That is why Karmanos, Roger Penske and one other give Kawama Kilpatrick a "loan" of high 6 figures and promise of a job to get him "Off Stage" in Sept of 08' so that Obama could not be compared to Kawame. I bet that went all the way to the top of the DNC. It was too much of a distraction. Those gents mentioned are now in deep doo-doo as the Feds look into their "loan".
That’s awesome!!! Did you strip them yourself?
Detroit? Ok, I’d love some wainescoting! Tell me when, I’ll pack the heat and the Kevlar.
I would wager a bet that it is safer in downtown Baghdad than my old neighborhood near Detroit City Airport.
Do tell. Here in D.C. it took about a quarter-century before developers were willing to come back in force to build on those “parking lots” and knock down the old boarded-up houses and businesses and start to “gentrify” the NorthEast neighborhoods. I remember downtown D.C. in the seventies and eighties, that was one slow process. But hey? Who is going to invest millions building in a neighborhood when it can all be wiped away in a few “days of rage”?
What is Southeast L.A. looking like these days, I wonder? Rodney King and Reginald Denny were much more recent.
A better idea would be to put a fence around it, call it the Museum of Liberalism and charge admission to schools and tour groups.
“A better idea would be to put a fence around it”
A la “Escape From New York”?
If Hollyweird ever remakes it, Detroit would be the perfect location for filming.
Check out The Onion-Detroit Sold For Scrap-April 5 2006.
Most islamic-infested city in America as well. Coincidence? Nope it’s run by PC multicultural black liberal politicians.
Thanks! Now that’s funny!!!
Who would eat anything grown in that soil after 100+ years of industrial pollution.
Thanks for posting that excellent video by Steven Crowder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw&feature=related
I urge everyone to watch it.
Interesting thought. Detroit is a toxic sewer, due to rampant capitalism, unenforced regulations, illegal dumping, or all of the above.
if we deregulate and get manufacturing jobs to re-appear in the US, will more cities become like this.
I could only look at the first 6 pictures, and then I had to stop, feeling more thandistressed, ashamed. It’s looking at pictures of the decomposition of a corpse.
>>Truly sad and frightening to see how steep the decline has been and how it occurred over a relatively short period.
It has been a 40 year plus slide. The city proper had major issues going back to the 1960s.
“Could it be that you are ....WronG!...”
Sure, I could be wrong. On the other hand, maybe those cites (and other places)have not as yet arrived at the end of their life cycle. life cycles may vary with cities as with animals, plants, humans, etc. :)
“The only problem with this is that the people living in that slum will move to other cities and destroy them also. The country needs to come down on these people and come down hard on them.”
Look at many of the Katrina refugees that are in other states’ cities with no intention of going back. I thank God NJ doesn’t share a border with Louisiana. We had a scandal here where realtors were diverting urban blacks from NJ to Altoona, Pennsylvania; nobody wants the hot potato.
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“Seems to me if I wanted to get great farmland, Detroit would be a good place to look.”
The land might be cheaper, but you have to pay a platoon to guard during the harvest (not just to protect workers/equipment, but also so the locusts don’t get your crops at night).
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