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Rock Bottom? Debt-Ridden Detroit Suburb Literally Rips-Out 1,000 Streetlights, Darkens Town
The Blaze ^ | 3 November, 2011 | Tiffany Gabbay

Posted on 11/03/2011 10:33:28 PM PDT by Watchdog85

Edited on 11/04/2011 5:59:49 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (The Blaze/AP)

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To: Watchdog85

To summarize (from the article)

““It’s pretty ghetto,”

Expect this to be a nationwide phenom in the near future.


21 posted on 11/04/2011 2:40:45 AM PDT by Molon Labbie ("It's free, swipe your EBT!")
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To: Watchdog85

“How can you darken any city?” asked Victoria Dowdell,”

Easy, just keep voting for the same leftist jackasses, dear.


22 posted on 11/04/2011 3:16:52 AM PDT by TalBlack ( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Watchdog85; All
This is nothing...

From one of my "Detwaa" gnomes I hear they just went nuts putting in handicap accessible sidewalks on corners and streets everywhere, even though major chucks of the city are now uninhabited.

Must have been a Obummer related jobs progam from the Porkulus Bill....

23 posted on 11/04/2011 3:29:42 AM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Watchdog85

Have no fear, Highland Park. Although you have lost your street lights, had your garbage collection cut back and lost many basic services, you can sleep soundly knowing your elected leaders are still raking in their salaries and benefits.


24 posted on 11/04/2011 3:48:03 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: Watchdog85

Welcome to the 3rd world!


25 posted on 11/04/2011 6:04:55 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: GnuHere

because the lightpoles would have been looted.


26 posted on 11/04/2011 6:06:34 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: tallyhoe

As I’m sure you know, the stimulus money went, overwhelmingly, to bail out government union pension funds, and then back into the democRat campaign coffers.


27 posted on 11/04/2011 6:07:52 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It

domestic car makers?

Ford?.... GM doesn’t count since its nationalized and Chrysler is now an Italian-owned company.....


28 posted on 11/04/2011 6:11:22 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It

I was just reading about Marx and the contempt he held for the “worker” that his ideology supposedly champions so much. (Sound familiar? Like today’s liberals?)

Anyway, he went into a rage at one of his supposed followers when the follower, being “boots on the ground” suggested that land be allocated at a rate of 120 acres “per peasant”. Marx was spitting mad and very denigrating towards this person, stating that you get the peasants’ support by PROMISING land, but all land must, after the revolution, be owned “collectively”, ie, by the Party.


29 posted on 11/04/2011 6:11:27 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: TalBlack

Where is that satellite view of North and South Korea at night?

Pretty soon we’ll know where the leftist states are the same way.


30 posted on 11/04/2011 6:13:29 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Chunga

Thanks!


31 posted on 11/04/2011 12:21:53 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: Chunga

After all I have Dain Bramage it is hard to keep my thoughts in order!!!


32 posted on 11/04/2011 12:23:17 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: GeronL

Well, that would have been cheaper!


33 posted on 11/04/2011 12:25:19 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: eggman
I bet they voted for Obama by at least 4-1 there and he would probably still get many of their votes.

4-1? That's not even close.
Votes. Highland Park. Wayne County
Barack Obama - 5844 - 97.95%
John McCain - 104 - 1.7%
Poverty Rate - 42.5%
Black Population - 93.5%
Home ownership rate - 38%

34 posted on 11/05/2011 8:08:12 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Anybody but Romney or Obama)
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