Leaving Detroit. What Happened to a City Once Improbably Called : "The Paris of the Midwest."

American Thinker ^ | 04/19/2011 | Matthew May

[cripplecreek]

Dave Bing is effectively declaring fiscal martial law in Detroit and is going after the unions. He’s an old school democrat and the country would be better off if all the democrats acted like him.

He’s a democrat and has his departures from reality but he stands head and shoulders above his party.

[Calvin Locke]

Even the gun-loving Ted Nugent abandoned MI for more hospitable (and less taxing) environs.

[Poison Pill]

Corporate arrogance. Union greed and sloth. Government malfeasance. Detroit was the site of the “perfect storm”.

[PapaBear3625]

And northern Michigan is gorgeous. I’d love to see a Detroit comeback, but I can’t imagine how it would take place.

Michigan passes 'financial martial law' bill: bankrupt cities and school districts (Detroit, Flint, etc) will have a financial manager who can override local government and cancel public employee union contracts.

The only thing that can save Detroit is to cancel welfare.

[Calvin Locke]

Is that the article that stated that (the race-baiting) Coleman Young was
happy to see "white flight" as that shrunk the opposing voting
base that did not want to see him destroy the city?

[School of Rational Thought]

Detroit always looks better from Canada.

[joe fonebone]

"You’re a bit delusional."
I LIVE here...I have worked in the city, and around the city...the muslims are not a problem here....the reason is actually quite simple, they like it here...the muslim area's are by far the safest in the city, period. They are also among the best kept as far as appearances go.....come here and look around before you spout your crap

[pabianice]

I was last in Detroit on business in 1979. It was a horror then of noise, snarling black gangsters, dirt, and violence. The front of the hotel was actually caked with filth up to the 7th floor so the windows were opaque and the hotel smelled of diesel and garbage. The hotel was unsleepable because of street noise. I have never been, and never will, be back.

[School of Rational Thought]

Detroit still has some of the best suburbs to live in, in the country, though.

For now. The huge supply of foreclosed homes has made it affordable for many Detroiters to move to the suburbs. It is only a matter of time as their culture engulf them as they have the ring suburbs.

[Grumplestiltskin]

“Exactly, everybody picks on Detroit, but the fact is, every major US city is going to look like Detroit within a few decades.”

What you say is absoutely true.

But let me ask impertinent questions:
Would this not be a use purpose for “cities” in the America that is to come?
That is to say, that they might become repositories for the most undesirable, and by being so, concentrate them in a few places and keep them away from the good people?

We use prisons for exactly that purpose, for the most dangerous.
Why not use “cities” in a similar way?

Just sayin’.....

[No Truce With Kings]

“Exactly, everybody picks on Detroit, but the fact is, every major US city is going to look like Detroit within a few decades.”

I would be willing to bet that Houston will not. If anything, the dumpy parts of Houston are getting torn down and replaced with new, better buildings.

And, yes, I frequently rag on Houston (and Galveston), but it will not become Detroit.

[rusureitflies?]

Are the liquor stores thriving or is it not their brain-deadening drug of choice?

[School of Rational Thought]

Two points: 1. Detroit has a yearly budget of $3.1 BILLION. You could build another “Paris of the Mid-West” that kind of cash in just a few years. 2. Detroit has been run democrats and socialists for the last 60 years straight. They have instituted every insane liberal program ever dream-up. All money goes towards public unions which is why nothing gets done.

A good example of the plan to purchase park of the Greek Town area to build a jail. There are thousands of acres of vacant lots in Detroit, but the powers that be want to spend top dollar to build their jail downtown.

[Calvin Locke]

I mean, everywhere muslims go, that place flourishes, right?

Hmmm, did you know that Beirut was once considered "The Paris of Mideast"?

IIRC, Extremely muslim Syria originally sponsored the Lebanese civil
war out of predominantly economic jealousy of the what was
then a relatively religiously tolerant country.

[blueunicorn6]

Wait a minute. I thought everyone in America was moving to the cities for the museums and operas and professional sports.

[dfwgator]

The only whites you’ll find in downtown Detroit at night are when the Red Wings play at The Joe.

[Vigilanteman]

Detroit and Paris still do have two things in common:

1. Lots of dog poop.
   
2. Lots of Muzzies in their suburbs.

[brownsfan]

"I LIVE here...I have worked in the city, and around the city...the muslims are not a problem here...."

Sure, I should come see, because I don't know anything about muslims... right?
Of course they love it there, Hamtramck is one of the few places in the US to sound the muslim call to prayer. A little sharia law, a few burned churches and it will be home to them.

"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."

-- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

[brownsfan]

“Hmmm, did you know that Beirut was once considered “The Paris of Mideast”?”

I didn’t think I needed a sarcasm tag on that post, see my reply on post 38 and you’ll see how I feel about muslims, and their influence.

[sportutegrl]

they might become repositories for the most undesirable, and by being so, concentrate them in a few places and keep them away from the good people?

Sounds like it's time for another Snake Plissen movie: Escape from Detroit.