Well, a picture can tell a thousand words.
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No, we haven't stolen enough. We are just getting started.
Posted on 10/31/2009 7:08:56 PM PDT by Son House
The city that was once one of the wealthiest in America is a decrepit, often surreal landscape of urban decline. It was once one of the greatest cities in the world. The birthplace of the American car industry, it boasted factories that at one time produced cars shipped over the globe.
Its downtown was studded with architectural gems, and by the 1950s it boasted the highest median income and highest rate of home ownership of any major American city. Culturally it gave birth to Motown Records, named in homage to Detroit's status as "Motor City".
Decades of white flight, coupled with the collapse of its manufacturing base, especially in its world-famous auto industry, have brought the city to its knees.
Half a century ago it was still dubbed the "arsenal of democracy" and boasted almost two million citizens, making it the fourth-largest in America. Now that number has shrunk to 900,000.
Its once proud suburbsnow contain row after row of burnt-out houses. Empty factories and apartment buildings haunt the landscape, stripped bare by scavengers. Now almost a third of Detroit – covering a swath of land the size of San Francisco – has been abandoned.
Tall grasses, shrubs and urban farms have sprung up in what were once stalwart working-class suburbs. Even downtown, one ruined skyscraper sprouts a pair of trees growing from the rubble.
The city has a shocking jobless rate of 29%. The average house price in Detroit is only $7,500, with many homes available for only a few hundred dollars. Not that anyone is buying. At a recent auction of 9,000 confiscated city houses, only a fifth found buyers.
Detroit is now $300m in debt and is cutting many of its beleaguered services, such as transport and street lighting.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
ROFLOL!!! Clever!
Yep, there were two more parts to that series;
A Tour Of Detroit’s Ghetto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6WKMNmFsxM&feature=related
A Tour Of Detroit’s Ghetto: Part 3 (Dec 2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHhUDKfiggY&feature=related
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That first one was really gut wrenching to see
Detroit - brought to you by the Democrat Party, liberalism and the UAW.
Exactly, just the same reason that Eire, Pa. and Cleveland, OH are industrial wastelands … Unions.
Well, a picture can tell a thousand words.
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No, we haven't stolen enough. We are just getting started.
The people that want Card Check essentially want to make the rest of the country look like Detroit...that is the ONLY result that can happen (and they know it).
It would be VERY SMART for the Republicans to get in front of the issue and continue to show clips and pictures of what Detroit looks like and ask America if that’s what they REALLY want for the rest of the country.
Re-post of website on historical and disappeared Detroit:
The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
http://www.detroityes.com/home.htm
Seems to be a good adjunct the great website you gave the link to.
Surely there must be a better position to take than simply “pro-corporate” or “anti-corporate”. It is interesting reading some of those comments blame GM for outsourcing the jobs to asia/mexico. Fact is, employees there will work for pennies. We won’t.
And of course the pensions, unions, etc can shoulder the blame as well.
It is the uAW far more than management. The laws are designed for the unions to extort, blackmail and hold hostage the companies.
The UAW is now trying to kill Ford and Ford is making some very good vehicles.
Re-post of website on historical and disappeared Detroit:
The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
http://www.detroityes.com/home.htm
Seems to be a good adjunct the great website you gave the link to.
Yep, I don’t see how the property owners aren’t being held accountable
And those Unions walked away rich Washington lobbyist
Detroit is a model of what happens when liberal Democrats spread the wealth. It brought the whole city down. Rule of law collapsed when people looked the other way.
the city went from the highest median income to a pittance.
Average home value $7,500. Trailers in Mississippi are worth more than that.
This is a shame. This is also an example of what America will become if we don’t get back to making everything rather than letting Commie China make it and sell it to us.
That lead paragraph reads like something out of Atlas Shrugged. It’s a shame when a once-thriving metropolis is turned into little more than a concrete and steel ghost town with pockets of ghettoes and a lot of people who have essentially given up on ever becoming anything. It reeks of hopelessness.
Liberals don’t really want to share the wealth, they merely want to spread the misery.
In 1959 he bought his house for $6,000, he couldn’t get it back now, if he wanted to move.
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