Posted on 07/22/2013 7:36:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Personally speaking, because I live near there, I think the only way this city will ever reemerge as a great city is if the people in the surrounding counties Oakland, Macomb and the wealthier side of Wayne come down there en masse and clean it up. This could be the biggest bon fire in history. Then they would have to hire a legitimate Police and Fire Department and start to rebuild and move down there again.
“If Detroit cant fix itself, maybe Washington could help...”
The last thing Detroit needs is for the idiots and morons that populate DC to get involved. That’s the kiss of death for certain in Detroit’s case.
Give them a couple more years of “Hell Nights” and there won’t be anything left anyway... Free urban blight remedy...
Most are sitting around, waiting for the government to do everything for them. The ones that would be desirable additions have already punched out of that buring wreck known as Detroit!
The problem is the residents of the city would elect to govern it whoever promised that they could live free off someone else.
A population of lazy illiterates means the city can't be fixed until the residents are gone.
“maybe an American city could play the role in exchange for a cut of future tax revenue. Reason Foundation analyst Shikha Dalmia suggests Houston as a candidate.”
In my opinion, Houston is prosperous in spite of its city government, not because of it. With the right mayor, city council members and city department heads, we could do so much better.
Exactly.
The unions, too.
And it goes without saying, the Liberal corrupt politicians also...
Absolutely. It'd have to be an insular, independent entity that wouldn't have to answer to the city's corrupt, ineffective "leadership."
Bulldoze the whole works and build a mountain out of the rubble.
Is it racist to even ask that question?
About 25 years ago, I worked in the ghetto houses for a company that did weatherization rehab work. It was apparent than the 25 years of neglect had destroyed the structure of most of the homes I worked on. 25 years of neglect later results in a 100% loss rate of these structures.
My solution is to make large parts of Detroit No-Go zones. Turn off all services and make the tenants move out. (there are almost no owner occupied dwellings in the city.
Then, rent out the area to SWAT, Nation Guard, military, fire departments, Coast Guard etc. for whatever urban assault or rescue training they desire. If you get caught in the crossfire, bummer because you were in a no-go zone. The millions of dollars raised from rent would go toward cleaning up the torn up buildings and removing all the infrastructure, including the sewers for a fresh start.
The problem with nuking Detroit are several including but not limited to radioactive fallout , nukes are very noisy & tend to alarm the neighbors needlessly , nukes are also expensive .
It would be cheaper to find a group of teenage firebugs & give them a gallon can of gasoline & a book of matches along with instructions that they can down structures in a given area that has had fire breaks bulldozed around it. this is a more methodical method & cheaper to.
IIRC the City of Detroit made just such an offer to the DoD & the military said NO the reason why ? The military would be on the hook for all the injuries incurred by training in this dump on a regular basis & the cost of that & repairing equipment damaged /destroyed would be prohibitive.
Well, it WAS sarcasm. We could always go for the solution currently in the news: send contractors to the wrong address, and have them raze the building.
Several hundred thousand times. I’m sure we could break 80-90K buildings gone before ANYONE would notice. . . (evil grin)
So what kind of 'liberalized labor laws' is the author suggesting?
None of us own Detroit a dime.
If Detroit’s bailed out it sends a message to every other corrupt city that they can continue buying votes with ‘great union contracts’ and skimming off the top - BECAUSE when it all goes down some guilty white fool will step in to make it all better.
That’s what’s called a perverse incentive - an incentive that will turn one city after another into a hellhole... and make fools of people running cities in honest ways.
God, can we be this stupid?
Why on earth would we want to move the citizens of Detroit someplace else?
Why would they want to move?
The only reason I can see is that Detroit gangs are falling on hard times - not much left to steal. Most homes have been stripped of anything that can be sold - copper, appliances, etc. - not much 'loot' left. Yeah, that's sad for the criminals but no one's starving in Detroit. And they're living the way they created for themselves.
So we have to assume that's how they like to live. We need to quit imposing 'white' standards on these people. Detroit WAS a beautiful city by white standards. Now it's a beautiful city by black standards... Whites created the white 'beauty' and blacks created the black 'beauty' of the city. Who are we to judge?
I’ve suggested this already. Create a greenline separating the city into socialist and capitalist sides, just like Berlin or N Korea and South Korea. Pick the measures and measure them in year 1, 3, 7 and 10.
Whichever side wins, go national!
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