Detroit: The Triumph of Progressive Public Policy

Capitol Confidential ^ | 2/14/2012 | Jarrett Skorup

[Paladin2]

The Greeks should study the history of Detroit.

Most animals don't foul their own nest.

[ConservativeDude]

no, no, don’t worry: Eastwood tells us that Detroit is back!

[Obadiah]

Good read. And yet Americans still vote for Liberals and liberal policies that wrecked not only Detroit, but Cleveland, Oakland, and a host of other cities. Then, when they have demolished a city, the Liberals move to a city run by Conservatives and then the process of destruction begins all over again, albeit more slowly.

[Maceman]

See for yourself in this Steven Crowder video: Detroit in Ruins.

[JimRed]

Readers of this can’t cry racism; no mention of demographics at all.

[GeronL]

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[blueunicorn6]

Democrats - ruin it and run away.

[MasterGunner01]

“At what point does the weight of evidence and logic make it impossible to avoid concluding that in the case of Detroit, correlation is causation?”

Remember, the Liberal “progressive” mindset is always set to DENIAL. Never ask the question whether the intended goal was achieved (or even if it was attainable), it's all about good feelings and the appearance of good works. Performance metrics are never mentioned and discouraged in the harshest ways possible.

The idiots running Detroit will NEVER learn and so Detroit must die in order to be reborn. Whether or not it can ever be reborn is another matter. It will never happen if attitudes and the current reasons for the destruction of Detroit do not change. The main thing is for the State of Michigan to allow Detroit to fail and not get sucked into oblivion along with the whirlpool called Detroit.

[GeronL]

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[GeronL]

Once the left has power, dissent is not tolerated.

[hal ogen]

These worthless LIBs are the termites attacking civilization. Relentless, purposeful, destructive.

[tcrlaf]

Detroit is considered “The Most Liberal City in America!”. Gary, In., is the 2nd most liberal.

I wonder why our lib friends don’t move to these paradises of Socialist Rule, enmass?

[harpu]

The ONLY way Detroit goes forward is post these signs on every road, street, highway coming into the city...

[MasterGunner01]

Exactly. All the more reason to isolate the cancer and let the disease consume the host. Do not let the perps who are the cause escape to infect healthy areas of the economy. Let the disease called Detroit implode from its vile excesses.

[quantim]

Us here in the Detroit ‘burbs are watching as it only a matter of weeks now before the State of Michigan takes over Detroit with the new Emergency Manager law.

When that happens it becomes racist!

[Paine in the Neck]

[Reeses]

Scientists have spent hundreds of billions of dollars studying the effects of CO2 increasing its share of the atmosphere 0.01% over 100 years, but there is not one computer model to calculate the effects of taxes increasing 6% over a period of 1 year. Why is that?

[from occupied ga]

Whether or not it can ever be reborn is another matter

Considering Detroit has been selecting its population for the laziest, stupidist, most ignorant, and above all the most dependent, and having run off all of the hard working and innovative, I'd have to say a rebirth is highly unlikely. When the bulk of you population is hard core welfare, and has a bone deep sense of entitlement, no skill and no desire to do anythin except drink, do drugs and screw out more welfare babies you have no labor pool. If you combine this with punishing any innovation or attempts to legitimately make money by taxation and regulation, then all you'll get is more lazy parasites thinking that the rest of the country owes them something. For the most part these people can't be salvaged.

Poverty is a lifestyle choice.

[iacovatx]

“And yet Americans still vote for Liberals and liberal policies that wrecked not only Detroit, but Cleveland, Oakland, and a host of other cities.”

You succinctly capture one of the core tenets of why conservatives are smart, and conservative, and why leftists are addicted to their own weaknesses. Place a table in front of a drug addict. On the table place just enough drugs to get them through a few days on the way to their ultimate destruction and also place a package marked “health and freedom from addiction”. The druggy will take the drugs every time, just like the leftist will almost always take the meager gov’t handout with its eternal chains.