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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
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To: EveningStar
Who in the world would live in Detroit or Chicago? Bringing children up in war zones such as these is child abuse.
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posted on
01/31/2013 10:48:27 AM PST
by
txrefugee
To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
Somebody isn't paying attention. Detroit is increasingly under control of the GOP state government. In fact, I also dispute the murder rate. Detroit leads the nation in justifiable homicide which is usually counted as a murder but is most often considered defensive.
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posted on
01/31/2013 10:50:16 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: EveningStar
I do feel sorry for Dave Bing, who seems intelligent and honest and understands the problems and the direction in which a solution would lie. But the labor unions’ grip on the levers of power make those solutions impossible to get through the city council.
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posted on
01/31/2013 10:51:53 AM PST
by
babble-on
To: EveningStar
Houses are inexpensive in Detroit. Why wouldn't someone want to move there? The Federal Reserve thinks printing money to make houses affordable should work. If that's true, why are these houses still vacant?
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posted on
01/31/2013 10:52:16 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Of the government, by the government, and for the government.)
To: EveningStar
A street scene:
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posted on
01/31/2013 10:53:44 AM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Of the government, by the government, and for the government.)
To: EveningStar
Put yourself in a black democratic voter’s shoe, they see the white libs just cleaning up at the trough, they just want their share.
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posted on
01/31/2013 10:53:55 AM PST
by
junta
("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
To: babble-on
He’s definitely a better democrat than most.
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posted on
01/31/2013 10:59:16 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
01/31/2013 10:59:59 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Uncle Miltie
I’d love to have a company that went in and salvaged building materials from houses like these....look at all the brick...
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posted on
01/31/2013 11:02:17 AM PST
by
cherry
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
01/31/2013 11:02:53 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Uncle Miltie
A street scene: I don't see anything. Is it me, or are others having the same problem?
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posted on
01/31/2013 11:04:18 AM PST
by
kosciusko51
(Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
To: cripplecreek
Once the city has sufficiently been drained of the mosquito population then those former war zones will be redeveloped into productive neighborhoods again, where the lot sizes are 100’ wide by 130’ deep just like suburbia. The public schools will be bankrupt and empty, but there will be new private schools in their place.
IFF the republicans can actually succeed in dislodging the democRATS.
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posted on
01/31/2013 11:04:18 AM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Obama has turned America into an aristocracy of the unaccomplished.)
To: cripplecreek
the whole problem is jobs.....when you lose millions of blue collar jobs...jobs that sustained our parents....you lose good schools, good churchs, parks, etc....
it all starts with a good family with mommy able to stay home and be a good mom because daddy makes enough money to do so...
good families want good churches....good schools...nice parks...clean streets...
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posted on
01/31/2013 11:05:31 AM PST
by
cherry
To: Ouderkirk
Business is buying up the riverfront and the new international bridge will ease the bottleneck. (Its the second busiest freight crossing on the continent)
Good things are starting to happen in Detroit but they’re starting in a central location and will grow from there.
The big difference is that the city doesn’t get a blank check from the republicans. The republicans are doing what’s right for the state and the city will benefit if they want to.
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posted on
01/31/2013 11:12:12 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: babble-on
But the labor unions grip on the levers of power make those solutions impossible to get through the city council. I suspect another barrier to progress is the failure of the state -- or anybody else -- to offer enough, ah, hmmmm, ummmmm, ah "incentives" to the council members for their assent.
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posted on
01/31/2013 11:12:24 AM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: cherry
The RTW law will help with the jobs situation.
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posted on
01/31/2013 11:13:38 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: EveningStar
From the article:
"This month, it was discovered that Barrett Jones, a full-time consultant for the Detroit Water and Sewage facility earning $139,000 a year, had a second full-time job at $135,000 a year as public-safety administrator for the city of Flint, which is 70 miles away. He has resigned from his Flint job but still works for the city of Detroit."
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posted on
01/31/2013 11:14:08 AM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(I've fixed my problem with procrastination; just wait and see.)
Ive put forward a series of proposals that will foster economic growth from the bottom up.
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posted on
01/31/2013 11:15:14 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(My faith and politics cannot be separated)
To: EveningStar
Detroit has basically just become a conduit for money to the criminal class.
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posted on
01/31/2013 11:16:51 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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