Posted on 04/19/2011 7:05:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Think that pretty well covers it, neither one makes my top 10000 places to go list. They don’t make the bottom 10000, either.
One problem with using cities for this purpose is that they tend to be located astride important highway junctions, ports and other infrastructure.
It would work better to build a secure wall about two miles north of the Mexican border and deport the entire criminal element to the south side of the wall.
Let's not forget the vibrant bohemian restaurant scene.
That's what Gitmo is for.
That last is a really, really low bar.
>Hmmm, did you know that Beirut was once considered “The Paris of Mideast”?
Largely because of the Maronite Christians, Greek Orthodox, and other Christian sects. Now suppressed and oppressed.
Yeah, it looks magnificent alright... from Windsor, Canada!
It's still the "Paris of the Midwest," if you refer to Paris' muslim banueles out away from the city's center.
Beirut was once the "Paris" of the Middle East.
Not only did whites want to live in a safe environment but they had Coleman Young issuing some vaguely threatening, Robert Mugabe-like statement every other week.
The riots in ‘68 hurt them very badly too, burning thousands of buildings. The trouble got out as far as 6 mile. White suburbanites had armed themselves and were gathering along 8 mile. Fortunately for all concerned the rioters never made it that far. But it disabused any thinking person of wanting to live in Detroit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skEgNUW78Co
This is the Chrysler commercial (with the Wings included) that played at the Joe at the start of the playoffs.
Go Wings!
the reasons are two fold:
One is a reason people here love to thump and crow about..and rightfully so ..urban liberalism.
The other glaring reason is the one where reasonable whites always look around to see who’s around before they talk about some issues.
Happening in Greater Atlanta too. I have lived this...first it's decent folks you don't mind and everyone wonders what the fuss was about but then more follow and home prices decline further as the more saavy(or racial to some) start moving out and then you and the decent folks who first integrated leave together for greener pastures again.
and hispter kids move into re gentrification areas that were once more "hood" in their naivete but they get cold feet and leave themselves in time after a mugging or babies.
American demographic cycles are so telling of which way the nation..culture and votes go.
The unions did not cause the damage in a vacuum. The government was a full partner, maybe even the directing partner.
The unions became a tool of big government in reining in the corporate growth and forcing the submission of corporations to the government regulation. Unions were simply the first tool that the statists pulled out of their tool box, when that tool became obsolete, they moved on environmentalism and globalism, which actually worked against the unions, as well as the US manufacturing.
The unions just couldn’t see what was happening because they were lulled by the promise and endless devotion to government protection of their benefit contracts.
Good article and thread. Thanks for the post(s); ping.
What happened? Music to read this thread by...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KC7uhMY9s
Good luck mayor Bing and Detroiters.
Just like where ever WalMart comes in the neighborhood dies”
We don’t seem to have that problem in N Nevada.
I'll back you up on that, Joe. I live in Dearborn and I have no problems with our Arab neighbors. They keep the property values up. East Dearborn is thriving with all of its Arab businesses. West Dearborn, the so-called high end (and white side) of town, continues to decline with many vacant stores along Michigan Avenue.
The Arabs are fine. It's that other group that starting to invade our city from Detroit who have me worried. The Arabs don't want to rape, rob, or murder me. I can't say the same about that other group.
Coleman Young destroyed the city beyond repair.
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