[John Semmens]

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[Star Traveler]

Ah ... when all else fails ... just make it a tourist attraction. Heck ... I would go, just to see what a city looks like after it has thoroughly collapsed. Some of those abandoned buildings do have quite a photographic appeal ... :-) ...

[Carry_Okie]

The problem is that one can't distinguish the news from the satire, simply because reality is bad enough that the situation as described is so believable (but for Mr. Bing's comments). For example, there used to be private coach buses through the more dilapidated sections of the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco for the tourists to take pictures of real hippies). I'd have to do a bunch of searching to make the determination and would then find a frustrating waste of time. It's the old, "truth is stranger than fiction" problem. Accordingly, a few links with which to make those distinctions would make the read more pleasurable.

Nicely crafted though.

[Bobalu]

That an American city could succumb to such a fate is terrifying.

This is a testament to how far we have fallen.. and yet another proof that socialism is a path to despair.

[WildHighlander57]

If anybody believes this, I got a bridge in new York for sale.....

[Huntress]

Nice one, John. I like the Howard Carter reference.

[GeronL]

lol

build a big wall around it

[Vendome]

[MarMema]

I believe it used to be called The 2nd Paris so the buildings which are decaying are still interesting to see.

[MarMema]

and yes I know it is a satire but still.....sniff, sniff, I grew up there.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’ve heard MichiganCentralStationHenge is a big draw.

[fella]

The ruins of Detroit. A good place to make SHTF films and TV shows.

[ronnie raygun]

Sign should be posted: years of liberal democratic rule have led to this

[Tax-chick]

... My role was more like a basketball player dribbling out the clock to preserve the team’s win.”

Excellent!

[castlegreyskull]

I always thought it would be funny if Romney took over the city. It would be an interesting experiment having a compentent man running the place. Then we could compare the results to obama’s time in office.

The media scorned him when he said the city will go bankrupt.

[Arrowhead1952]

I know this is satire, but you can't make this stuff up.

“We paid a guy $50 bucks for a three-hour tour,”

In related news, Wisconsin is spending millions of dollars to maintain vacant public school buildings rather than rent or sell the space to charter schools.

Instead of paying people for tours or throwing money at vacant buildings, I may send them my address and let them send money my way. Typical leftover of a city run by dims.

[PGalt]

LOL! Very funny, John! GREAT WORK (and a great idea…hello enterprising Detroiters)!

I grew up on the south Detroit border, Lincoln Park, lived in Detroit’s south side…east side…north side, and graduated from a Detroit university - Wayne State.

Coming back from a high school hockey game in Detroit last week, my daughter asked me if Detroit would ever come back to what it was when I was growing up. My answer: No, not in my lifetime or hers. She disagreed. Without having the same time-frame of reference (the new normal?) she sees (and so do I) some of the good things happening in Detroit. Viewing from the longer arc of time Detroit has such a long way to go to get back to where it was. Ain’t happenin’.

We are not that far removed from the greatest criminal in Detroit and Michigan history, Kwame Kilpatrick. A whole host of his enablers, sycophants, supporters are still around, many in positions of “power”(totalitarians/socialists/fascists).

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

I’ve always said they could have filmed “I am legend” in Detroit. They even have trees growing up through pavement in some places.

Good satire, John!

[PowderMonkey]

“It’s like seeing the pyramids without having to wait thousands of years for them to turn into ruins.” Carter congratulated himself on his good fortune."

"IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?" ….../S

[Malone LaVeigh]

There were guided tours to devastated areas of New Orleans following Katrina.