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Posted on 07/23/2013 3:38:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
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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