Liberalism has brought such great progress to Detroit..
Posted on 10/09/2009 7:57:24 AM PDT by TheDailyChange
With 1.4 million people living below the poverty level in the state of Michigan and this after BILLIONS of $$$ of so-called stimulus money has gone to that state and businesses in that state there still is unbelievable levels of unemployment and it appears to be decaying into a 3rd world type of status.
Meanwhile, in Washington DC, is there anything currently being done that can be measured and quantified as having a positive impact in the American economy YET?
And yet Michiganders keep voting for Republicans....oh, wait....
I bet they all have big screen TV’s, designer manicures, the latest togs, new cars and free medical care..... I don’t!
HEY! Some of us do! ACORN and raising millions on welfare done us in. John Engler stopped welfare for able bodied people in the 90’s. It went down hill from there. We pay people to be dumb and not work and guess what. That is what we get. And they vote Democrat.
We do, but they don't make it to office...and unless you are a Michigander you have no idea how things work here. Jenny is tanking the state.
If any of those poor, impoverished, destitute Michiganders have a small piece of property with its own dock, free and clear and cheap, I’m interested. Maybe we can work out a trade.
I grew up outside of Detroit and was in Detroit several weeks ago for a wedding. What I don’t understand is all the road construction going on there and freeways. Detroit on a Saturday was a ghost town.
Obama can now give each of them a dollar.
Make work “jobs” for roads that nobody will ever use.
The final straw was the UAW & Democrats finishing off GM and Chrysler. It was the only hope in the state. They will want to kill Ford now.
The golf channel has ads for people to come to MI to play golf. No one has a job so you might as well play golf.
This administration has wiped out thousands of jobs with the way it handled the Auto industry. Mexico and China benefited.
BO, Granholm, Carl Levin, Dingle, Conyers...all those Dems watching from their well-paid perches while Michigan sinks like the Titanic. Are voters in states like Michigan really that clueless?
I wonder how they are defining poverty................
“I grew up outside of Detroit and was in Detroit several weeks ago for a wedding. What I don’t understand is all the road construction going on there and freeways. Detroit on a Saturday was a ghost town.”
I’m also a former Metro Detroiter and I’d have to say that Detroit itself is one of the main problems as illustrated with the Cobo Hall riot. The handouts and the waste have bankrupted the state since signed by Bill Clinton. NAFTA, I believe, has cost thousands and thousands of jobs and the tax increases by Jenny The Canadian have driven away further people from this once great state. When I see the Michigan PR commercials by Jeff Daniels on TV I have to laugh. I’ve been there and done that as far as Michigan is concerned. It’s a state that never learns and keeps voting for the rats, mostly due to Detroit voters and a few blocks around Flint and some of the other more liberal counties. I’ve moved on and Michigan has been in my rear view mirror for more than a decade. I’ve never even returned, not even to visit.
Liberalism has brought such great progress to Detroit..
For sale: Lovely, majestic Old Detroit Victorian. Needs a bit of TLC.
One more on the Detroit Parade of Homes...
If Wayne County (Detroit), and Gennesee County (Flint) were
taken out of the equation, Michigan would be a red state.
The other day, there was a near riot at Cobo Hall in Detroit, where the fine, up-standing denizens, stood in line for hours to get an application for a “Stimulus”
check. When a WJR reporter “aksed” them where the money was coming from, one said “Obamas’ Stash”. There was alot of chanting going on.
Fortunately, I live about as far away from those places you can and still be in the L.P.
“BO, Granholm, Carl Levin, Dingle, Conyers...all those Dems watching from their well-paid perches while Michigan sinks like the Titanic. Are voters in states like Michigan really that clueless?”
Yes, apparently so. They prove it every two years.
That crumbling victorian makes me sad. If it were in Brooklyn, it would have been rehabbed long ago, and worth over $1MM in even some not so nice neighborhoods.
“That crumbling victorian makes me sad.”
Me, too. When I was a Realtor a few years ago, I showed some old Victorians in now-rundown neighborhoods and couldn’t help but think how grand they were some 70 years ago. Too bad.
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