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America’s Suicidal Cities: Detroit refuses to take its medicine.
National Review ^ | January 31, 2013 | John Fund

Posted on 01/31/2013 10:45:55 AM PST by EveningStar

Some major American cities are dying, and the worst part is that these grievously ill patients often are refusing to take even the mildest medicine that would make things better.

Take Detroit, a city that has become a synonym for urban failure. The murder rate of one per 1,719 people last year was more than eleven times the rate in New York City. One contributing factor may be that two-thirds of Detroit’s streetlights are broken.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: detroit; johnfund; urbandecay
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To: Uncle Miltie

Being a native Detroiter, (Denby Class of 1967), I must shed a tear for my hometown. When I was growing up, Belle Isle was a jewel of the city. It had a beautful yacht club, small zoo, a botantical garden, a matitime museum, an model yacht pond, pony riding, and a casino building that had a cafeteria that served a wonderful Sunday brunch. I spent many memorable Sunday afternoons with my family picnicing and sailing my model boats in the pond.

THe city was destroyed by complete Democratic control and BLACK race baiters who kept saying that the white and middle class blacks who fled the crime and high taxes for a better life North of 8 mile Road were the cause for the city’s demise. The truth is the poor blacks voted in a bloc for criminals the likes of Coleman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick (not an Irish drop of blood in him, by the way)

Snyder handed them a lifeline and they refused to take it. LET THE MF’s DROWN!

All that is a memory now.


21 posted on 01/31/2013 11:17:54 AM PST by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: wetgundog

i swear the urban black motto is “Being Black means never having to take the blame for your own failures.”


22 posted on 01/31/2013 11:21:35 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: cherry

No, it wouldn’t pay to take the bricks because you’d have to be a union shop to work there and pay the prevailing union wage even if you used minimum wage employees. By the time you paid off the local unions, the bricks would cost more than steak!


23 posted on 01/31/2013 11:28:05 AM PST by Dracomeister (The older I get the less I care about what other people think.)
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To: cherry

You are SOOO right. Four of those houes are just drop dead beautiful. I would give my right arm to move in and fix up. Course, I’d ending up giving my right arm, left arm, and brain after some thug put a cap in me. Oh well.


24 posted on 01/31/2013 11:29:51 AM PST by Doctor 2Brains
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To: Secret Agent Man

Floats all the way to the top. Obama uses that rule all the time.


25 posted on 01/31/2013 11:35:11 AM PST by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: EveningStar

I love the media as it is totally devoted to the fallacy of non causa pro causa; i.e. mere economics. Everyone knows the cause but are unable to publically state it.


26 posted on 01/31/2013 11:42:19 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: EveningStar

It’s only safe to drive in Detroit now, if you’re driving a fully combat loaded M-1A1 Abrams tank.


27 posted on 01/31/2013 11:43:52 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: cherry

“good families want good churches....good schools...nice parks...clean streets...”

And they will gladly pay through the nose for it. That’s suburbia. And they are paying the police to run the riff-raff from Detroit out of their neighborhoods. By and large, the suburbanites tolerate the suburban police state because they see it as a necessary evil.

Of course, this is not 0bama’s vision for America, because these suburbanites vote Republican. 0bama’s “fundamental transformation” of America is to drive these people out of the affluent suburbs and into the hell-holes of the inner cities, where they can be good dependent little drones who will reliably vote democrat. I have just described 0bama’s idea of “middle class.”

All of his statements and policies are consistent with this program.


28 posted on 01/31/2013 11:44:09 AM PST by henkster ("The people who count the votes decide everything." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: txrefugee
Who in the world would live in Detroit or Chicago?

There's lots of elderly retirees living there who I'm sure would like to. Unfortunately their houses are worthless and can't be sold, and they're on fixed incomes and can't afford to buy a home in the nearby communities....

29 posted on 01/31/2013 12:07:46 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon or just throw her from the train......)
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To: cherry

The elites should fill those houses with the elites’ illegal alien slave workers.


30 posted on 01/31/2013 12:13:28 PM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: EveningStar

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31 posted on 02/01/2013 10:24:25 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: EveningStar
If TV's Hardcore Pawn is any indication of Detroit's population, then it's truly doomed.

I'm waiting or someone to get shot in the parking lot.

32 posted on 02/01/2013 10:37:00 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum
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To: kosciusko51

34 posted on 02/01/2013 10:40:49 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Post 6 had a title, but no picture, at least on my screen, but looking at the html for the page there should be one. Do you see a picture on Post 6?


35 posted on 02/01/2013 10:52:13 AM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: kosciusko51
Let's try it again...

If that doesn't make it appear, look at just the picure.:

Mash Here. It's not purty.

36 posted on 02/01/2013 11:05:17 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: kosciusko51; EveningStar; Cyber Liberty

“Post 6 had a title, but no picture, at least on my screen, but looking at the html for the page there should be one. Do you see a picture on Post 6?”

I don’t see it on the page either. You can see it here: http://www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/DetroitStreet.jpg


37 posted on 02/01/2013 11:05:28 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: Cyber Liberty; JustSayNoToNannies

Thanks!


38 posted on 02/01/2013 11:09:03 AM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Access Denied!


39 posted on 02/01/2013 11:10:41 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: kosciusko51

If you can see the picture at post #6 now, after having viewed it separately by clicking one of our links, that’s a symptom of a website that doesn’t allow hot-linking of pictures to an external website like FR. You can see it now because it’s in your browser cache.


40 posted on 02/01/2013 11:13:28 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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