Life After People.
Escape From Detroit.
Bing is no Kwamee.
Sounds to me like he’s doing what needs to be done. He’s a true democrat but he appears to be a businessman first. Firing slacker union bus drivers, refusing to deduct union dues from city employee paychecks...
So the mayor intends to cut off utilities and city services to underpopulated swathes of the city and provide incentives to move people into concentrated areas?
Hmmm, so the abandoned areas will be declared no-go and surrounded by containment walls?
And populated by post-apocalyptic hoodlums wearing leather chaps and mowhawks?
When it was done to people in other countries, we called it ETHNIC CLEANSING...but I guess not here.
I don’t think this fairly can be called surrender any more then pruning a decayed branch surrenders the tree. Every city goes through cycles of growth and decay. Gentrification has salvaged neighborhoods in soms cities, but conditions don’t now encourage this in Detroit.
Cutting down the blight may be the smartest thing this city can do, creating opportunities for the next growth cycle when and as conditions permit.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting. I have high regard for Dave Bing the man. Dave Bing the mayor has the toughest assignment of all the mayors in America. His decisions are going to be interesting. Pesonally, I think Detroit is doomed mainly because the affluent suburbs around it are witnessing the very hardest times in their histories. What support those citizens gave Detroit will be diminished tremendously.
I hope for the best for the citizens of Detroit because having Dave Bing as mayor is very positive development.
Music to read this post by...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2TNYyXdZjI
Detroit shrinkage
The the oldline Stalinist (Communist Party member) Coleman Young for destroying Detroit, a city the Reds once nearly owned thru red labor unions.
Good going to all those idiots who voted for Young. You finally got what you wanted and deserved.
I have a job, you fu*king idiots.
I think is amusing that we have a Black Democrat who is sincere in trying to save Detroit while at the same time the X mayor may go to jail AGAIN for all his corrupt stuff. So it sounds like we will have Fort Apache DETROIT! LOL I wish Mayor Bing luck. I am old enough to remember him playing for the Pistons. He rocked.
Time to run herd on the cattle and round em’ up.........