Detroit: My City Was Gone

Townhall.com ^ | July 28, 2013 | Derek Hunter

[alarm rider]

I second that.

[Caipirabob]

Socialists killed your city as sure as national socialist killed 6 million Jews in concentration camps and another 6 million innocents through their campaigns of deceit.

[Texas Fossil]

Math is Mean!

hee hee hee

And math is Hard. Or would be for people like Trayvon’s friend Rachel Jeantel who cannot read cursive well. (cannot talk or think well either)

[peteyd]

I talk frequently about Cleveland.
I was a child of the “50’s” ,born and raised in Cleveland.
I saw the destruction of that city.Euclid Ave at Christmas was absolutely wonderful.All the stores,Higbee’s May Co,Halle’s ,Sterling Linder.Everyone went downtown dressed, it was civil.Then the decline.Stores moved out,white flight.
My church is gone,my childhood home bulldozed,(in fact much of the neighborhood)I recently went with a friend to where she grew up in Alameda,Ca.Her schools,homes,places she hung out,are all there.
I wanted to cry.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Detroit, liberalism’s urban removal.

[adorno]

Detroit is now a city whose population consists almost exclusively of people who can’t afford to leave.

AKA, the poor and destitute.

Which should give Obama a proving ground for his ideas about the building the economy from the bottom up.

If the people at the bottom or in the middle are what creates good or great economies, then, let's see how the socialists in Detroit and in Washington can do that. But, let's see them do it without a Washington bailout. A Washington bailout just means more of the same policies which ruined the city in the first place, and that Detroit will never again be a self-sustaining metropolis.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*BUMP*

[Jack Black]

The ignorant black crooks running Detroit couldn’t even spell Socialism.

Portland, OR and Madison Wisconsin are run by real socialists. Both are nice places to live.

Try again. It’s not that hard.

[hinckley buzzard]

What these puff pieces by nostalgic Detroiters never tell you is that Detroit had racial violence and riots as far back as the forties. The city was never a peaceful community regardless of all the good times up into the 60's. It was born with union thuggery and died by union thuggery.

[Jack Black]

So true.

[uncommonsense]

This article is severely lacking in Detroit history before Kwame... and Young as well.

Henry Ford doubled the wages of workers and established the 40 hour work week. He used to visit workers who fell ill. He established the safest and most effective manufacturing workplace at the time and implemented ideas from anyone who could show how to make the process better.

Along came the union and government to improve the plight of the working man - and it was all down hill from there.

The best quote in the article:

"A city founded in 1701 as a trading post that became one of the strongest in the world. A city that manufactured the means by which the world defeated fascism was taken out by the economic ideological cousin of that philosophy."

[uncommonsense]

Unexpected, but Wikipedia has a good section on Ford's labor philosophy

... a must read on how to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs for many generations of common folks!