The Last Days of Detroit

The Guardian ^ | Friday 4 January 2013 | Andy Beckett

[MinorityRepublican]

In 1920, Detroit was the fourth biggest city in America. Its population had doubled in a decade. Migrants, many of them African-Americans from the rural South, were drawn by its pioneering car factories with their unprecedentedly high wages. The manic, mechanised, overcrowded metropolis of General Motors and Ford also drew journalists and writers.

In 1934, Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times wrote about Detroit's "democratized luxuries, with gas stations on every corner, chain stores, moving-picture palaces … as truly a world capital as any city on earth … Paris dictates a season's silhouette, but Detroit manufactures a pattern of life."

[garjog]

“as truly a world capital as any city on earth … Paris dictates a season’s silhouette, but Detroit manufactures a pattern of life.””

Now it is a fifth world hell hole — thanks to liberals running the place into the dirt.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Detroit was “Paris of the West,” while Lebannon was “Paris of the Middle East.” I see a trend here...

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

The union parasites devoured the host.

[Tunehead54]

Now it is a fifth world hell hole ...

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Yeah but I've read that the housing is quite inexpensive ...

[Impala64ssa]

[vpintheak]

Unions and democrat zombies destroy all they touch.

[56newblog]

AT LEAST THE LOCAL POLITICIANS AND CONNECTED PEOPLE ARE DOING VERY WELL..

An article on Yahoo misc section not long ago listed cities in America with the highest per-capita number of Millionaires. Detroit was near the top. But for “some” reason was not mentioned in the article itself..

I do not have a link, but I have seen it in print.

[hosepipe]

Now its a liberal Utopia.. with Unicorns and everything..

[okie01]

Evidently, the book is a rather complete and accurate vivisection of what Detroit has become.

Yet, oddly, I didn't see a single word about why.

Isn't that an issue that needs illumination, as well? All this fascination with the Ruin that is Detroit today. Yet, no curiosity about how it came to be?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cousins on my dad's side of the family sold their homes and moved out in the mid 60s while a home could still be marketable. They'd worked for Ford on the line and in the office for decades.

[lowbridge]

The article says that the book author is a leftist liberal. Perhaps he conveniently left out of his book how leftist liberal policies played a huge part in destroying Detroit and preventing it from being improved.

[P.O.E.]

Yet, oddly, I didn't see a single word about why

For one thing (among several), the unions ate the work ethic out of too many of the workers.

[Bon mots]

[kjo]

I grew up in the 8 Mile/Kelly Rd area near Eastland, Roseville, Grosse Pointe Farms. It was a great place in the fifties. By the mid sixties it was going down fast. Crime, mostly black on black was the order of the day. However, if you pointed it out, especially in the local media...you were “racist”.

The riot in ‘67 finished it. Career Democrat politicians took over and emptied out the cashregister holding the tax receipts. Mayors Cavanaugh (Kennedy Democrat), and of course, Coleman Young (LBJ guy) were leading crooks.

By the early 80s the city was at the point of no return.

The entire city rubble should be leveled and locals should be allowed to farm.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It’s an incredibly sad story. One of America’s great cities turned to a trash heap.

[P.O.E.]

Local newsman Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit 2012: The Movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPFFtraZbBI

It’s a wry take on a pathetic situation.

[bert]

I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Ohh how I wanna go home

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city
And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home
I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa, sister and brother
I dreamed about that girl who’s been waiting for so long

I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Ohh how I wanna go home

Home folks think I’m big in Detroit city
From the letters that I write they think I’m fine
But by day I make the cars, by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines

‘Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit city
And after all these years, I find, I’ve just been wastin’ my time
So I just think I’ll take my foolish pride
And put it on a southbound freight and ride
And go on back to the loved ones
The ones that I left waitin’ so far behind

I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Oh how I wanna go home
I wanna go home

Read more: BOBBY BARE - DETROIT CITY LYRICS

[CPOSharky]

They ran out of other people’s money...

[hal ogen]

It sounds like they don’t have “enough” of peoples’ money...what the politicians manage to seize from the citizens they manage to waste and spend on themselves. Lots of money going down a “black” hole.