Posted on 07/23/2013 3:38:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
The agonizing death of Detroit is cause for celebration. It’s the first of the liberal-run big cities and states to fall, and we should welcome its collapse with glee.
Yeah, liberals, eventually you do run out of other people’s money.
The blue state model is a terminal disease, and Detroit is its poster child. Only this is one telethon where we should pledge that we won’t pay a single dime to keep the progressive party going a single minute longer.
Detroit represents the epitome of the blue state, Democrat machine liberalism that Barack Obama represents. Well, not one damn cent for Barry’s Kids.
Liberal media mouthpieces like the New York Times are all in a tizzy because the consequences conservatives have been warning America about for years are finally arriving. “We have to step in and save Detroit,” it cries.
We don’t have to do any such thing.
Steven Rattner, writing in the Times, says “But apart from voting in elections, the 700,000 remaining residents of the Motor City are no more responsible for Detroit’s problems than were the victims of Hurricane Sandy for theirs, and eventually Congress decided to help them.” And apart from the iceberg, the Titanic’s maiden voyage went swimmingly.
This is a problem created by the people of Detroit. It’s their problem to solve – without our money.
If you listen to the hand-wringers, you’ll never hear an honest examination of why Detroit is imploding. Nor do they offer any evidence that the half-wits who elected the quarter-wit Democrats governing them have learned anything at all from this trip to the precipice.
The most hilarious arguments are the ones where liberals whine about the middle class fleeing from the city, taking jobs and the tax base with them. Sure, regular folks took a look at the well-governed, stable, crime-free Utopia that was Detroit and thought, “Yeah, we need to get the hell out of here.”
Liberalism and the political, economic and social pathologies it spawned drove everyone out of Detroit who wasn’t feeding at the municipal trough, whether through some form of government job or some form of government handout.
This isn’t a chicken and the egg brainteaser. It’s simple cause and effect. Liberalism turned Detroit into a hideous dump that milked those who contribute to society to pay off the Democrat machine’s constituents who don’t. People didn’t feel like living in a pig sty while serving as piggy banks for corrupt Democrats. The productive decided that while the non-productive might win by voting at the ballot box, the productive would win by voting with their feet.
Yeah, Detroit had some hard knocks. The auto industry collapsed, which is not surprising since it was the blue state model in corporatist form. But every city takes hits. Dallas and Houston have been slammed again and again by the energy sector, and they keep coming back.
Not Detroit. It keeps milking the “GM went bye-bye” excuse, with its apologists never mentioning that GM didn’t just disappear. GM just went to places that didn’t suck.
What did Detroit do about it? Nothing. The auto industry started changing decades ago, but liberals act as if that change somehow excuses Detroit’s legacy of corruption and incompetence. Detroit’s most significant export in decades was Eminem. That’s reason enough to want to see a stake driven through its metaphorical heart.
But, of course it’s all the Republicans’ fault…for some reason. Rattner says, “If I thought it could pass Congress, I’d happily support a special appropriation, but the politics of any spending are toxic in Washington these days.” Yeah, it is toxic to suggest that those of us who didn’t vote in a succession of criminals to run our governments give our money to morons who did. And, in any sane universe, no one would ever suggest doing so.
But this is the Times, the voice of Big Liberalism. It opines that, “America is just as much about aiding those less fortunate as it is about personal responsibility.” Except, America isn’t about “aiding the less fortunate.” It’s about the “less fortunate” working to make themselves “more fortunate” – understanding that liberals think people become financially stable not through hard work but by dumb luck.
Not surprisingly, in a Times article referring to the miserable condition of a city run by a liberal Democrat machine for half a century, there is no mention of either liberalism or Democrats. That’s like writing about obesity and not mentioning food.
The liberal elite, which loves root causes, absolutely refuses to admit that the root cause of Detroit’s woes is liberalism itself. Liberals are like a drunk who wants the benefits of sobriety while continuing to hoist highballs. Step One is admitting that their ideology has a problem.
Fat chance. For liberalism, the answer is “5,” and it’s the “2 + 2” that’s somehow screwed up.
We conservatives should sit back and giggle as liberalism hits bottom. No, Detroit’s collapse won’t teach liberals anything. The big cities and the blue states will fail no matter what. Liberalism is the locust of political ideologies; it will eat everything in sight and then starve.
But Detroit may serve a useful purpose once again as a cautionary example for future generations, so for that reason as well we should welcome its passing. And as it dies, the last words ringing in its ears should be the voices of laughing conservatives saying, “We told you so.”
Better go get a prescription for Xanax... Whether Congress wants to, or not... I GUARANTEE you, Obama will come riding to the rescue with Federal money.
There is NO WAY he's going to let all those good union brothers lose their pensions. It's going to be sickening to watch, but.... It's gonna happen.
'Erections' have consequences!
The problem I have is with folks who call themselves Conservatives laughing and making fun of the place instead of suggesting ways that reflect Conservative principles to pick up the pieces...
“If so called “Conservatives” cannot pull their heads out of their asses and offer solutions for all Americans in all cities”
Conservatives didn’t run the city into the mess. Liberals did. You cannot defeat Santa Clause, black racism, or stupidity.
The problems with local governments start with the elected officials either too willing to ignore those who elected them to enact meaningful laws, regulations, or expand and add services that they want, or to easily succumb to the vocal minority who want those same things.
Elected officials and those that are running for office should be required to take a state sponsored course in how government works, the laws that are on the books and how to budget for revenues and expenditures. There should be a course entitled “ What part of NO don’t you understand?”
As staff increases, and services are delivered, the. Their power increases. Next comes unionization of employees until the production vs efficiency curves cross the threshold of decline. By the time any real analysis is performed and the losses totaled it is too late. That money is lossed, the delivery of services becomes a joke, but there is no willingness to cut from the electeds or the electorate.
The left is demanding a federal bailout.
They don’t understand other bailouts took stock/equity positions.
There is no equity in detroit. Perhaps what really needs to happen is a simple liquidation of detroit. Bulldoze the parts other cities can take over. Revoke their charter to exist and turn off the lights.
The tax base is NOT comming back. Even if a company moves in (why?) it will be very difficult to convince employees to move to detroit in order for a job. How good does a job have to be to live in a mad max zone with zombie looters.
And rubbing the faces of the Detroit municipality and majority voters in their own stupidity, malevolence and hubris is simply humble service of the truth. They really won't understand how depraved and malevolent their actions were in any other way.
You are making pious excuses as to why we shouldn't hold a mirror up to evil.
Sorry, not going to happen. You can hold a pity-party for Marxism on your own time.
Ultimately, it is the short term mindset of the citizens that caused this. Just elect the politicians that promise me free stuff, coddle the slugs at the expense of the producers, and tell me that its not my fault. Don’t hold them accountable for corruption or actual results because, after all, its the White boogeyman to blame.
This is the real formula for rot and decay. It comes from within long before it manifests itself from without.
MSNBC today had a host say Detroit is 83% africanamerican.
only 700,000 people in detroit at last count. (probably less by now)
I don’t see how the tax base will EVER come back.
Detroit is a lost city.
Well said. Like it or not, we are all in this together. So this is a time for reflection, and for offering serious solutions. It is not a time for childish giggling.
Did PMSNBC point out how Michael Moore evacuated the area and now lives in a town that is less than 1% African-American?
One missed ebt deposit away from zombies.
moore is too busy having drinks with bill oreily.
Detroit is a parasitic municipality - a legal entity with vast untenable obligations and no means to pay. I don't know about you but I don't feel sorry for parasites. If they're attached to me I don't feel bad when they fall off and die.
And we are not 'all in this together'. In what sense are we 'all in it together' when we are not all enjoying extremely lucrative pensions?
They throw our money at all problems and will not see that there is any other way. Until we beat these Bozos at the ballot box with real conservatives.... it'll just go on and on.
The big cities are more or less entirely gone now. They are stuck on stupid.
I wouldn't even raze it; why waste the money? The materials came from the earth, let mother nature do her thing.
perhaps the proper discussion is to prohibit public unions and do to the ones that are left the same thing that was done to patco.
The pensions were contingent on their unions keeping the city solvent. That end of the bargain was broken.
raise it and salt the earth as a fitting memorial to the baren principles of the democrat party.
I have no problem with people who want to "aid and assist" Detroit, it is very noble of them.
Now, if they're talking about aiding and assisting Detroit with my money, right there's a problem.
Michael Moore was from Flint, not Detroit. Another failed Michigan city. Between the two is Pontiac, another failed Michigan city. In Pontiac the domed stadium,the Silverdome, with something like 150 acres of paved parking, was recently sold for less than $500K. At that, it took an Aussie to buy it, nobody locally had any interest. Suburban Detroit is lovely and full of $500K houses!
But buying the Silverdome you are just putting a kick me sign on your back for the local tax leaches.
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