Posted on 07/19/2013 12:03:02 PM PDT by MosesKnows
A few years back I received a link to pictures of Hiroshima after August 6, 1945 followed by pictures of Hiroshima today. Hiroshima today was a brightly lit sprawling modern city. The pictured continued with pictures of Detroit today for comparison with Hiroshima today. I was curious about what caused a diminishing Detroit but at the same time, I was suspicious if the pictures were accurate.
Over time, I read a few articles that supported the pictures I had seen. The events of late regarding Detroit filing bankruptcy makes me more curious. I have my own opinion but opinion is not fact, I trust someone will investigate the facts and publish a summary.
"History is lies agreed upon." Napoleon Bonaparte
I liked the twitter comment that Mark Steyn mentioned:” If Obama owned a city, it would look like Detroit”.
You’re right about the moment but can the pupils be taught and how many will grasp the lesson?
Asian mercantilism played into it also. We opened our markets to rebuild the Japanese economy after the war, they have never done the same.
Two Words: DemocRAT Run
There are a lot more Detroits out there suffering from the maladies of liberalism. Lost in yesterday’s news coverage of Detroit was another significant financial event: Moody’s downgraded Chicago’s debt rating because of its growing pension liability.
Because the producers were forced to pay for the slackers, and so they left, leaving the indolent to take more and more money from the state. Finally it all collapsed.
Yep....you are right on....”Obama the Black Racist, America destroyer”!!! What does the city of Detroit have in common with White, African American, Balck racist, POTUS Obama!!! Answer....FAILURE!!! At least the city of Detroit is not in love with our sworn enemies, The Muslim Brotherhood, who POTUS Obama adores!!!
“I was curious about what caused a diminishing Detroit but at the same time”
1. Democrats
2. Liberals
3. “Minorities”
1) unions
2) pensions
liberal politicians
No tax base
= BK
Well, somebody had to come along and blame the successful.
If the Soviets had any compassion, they would have implemented a Marshall plan here in the states after they destroyed us in the cold war. We may never recover from this post cold war Marxism without help from our conquerer. We surrender, the USSR won, now help us
This is a great video from an article at American Thinker that Provides some insight into the tragedy that is Detroit.
One article - here: http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/spiritual/pictures/news.php?q=1254861706
And it was discussed by Freepers in 2009 - here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2349112/posts?page=61
Scary ...and it is where the rest of the US is heading if we don’t end liberalism. (As Margaret Thatcher said....the problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money. ....and we are already into a debt hole that we can’t dig ourselves out of!)
I have a remedy for helping really dysfunctional organizations that I stole from the medical community. It’s called “SOAP”
S ubjective input
O bjective input
A nalysis
P rescription
I believe Doctors also make a diagnosis and develop a prognosis.
We have the Subjective input. We have the Objective input. We are analyzing. The Diagnosis is: a bad case of the Democrat party. The prognosis? If we don’t dismantle the Democrat party, the nation will die. The Prescription? Dismantle the Democrat party.
The proximal cause that made all the other ones so much worse was the rising crime rate from the later 50’s throughout the 60’s, culminating in the 1967 riots. But even before the riots, Detroit was becoming a less-desirable place to live due to safety and security issues.
By the end of the 60’s, statistics like the murder rate had risen to that of a low-level civil war, where they have remained ever since.
The old Adam Smith saying “there is much ruin in a nation” was meant to show how even badly-mismanaged countries can keep a certain level of prosperity going, and it can take a long time from decline to fall.
Well, there was much ruin in a city, but Detroit managed to find most of it pretty quickly. Once the crime got out-of-hand, many of the non-criminals fled, especially those with assets or possessions worth stealing, leaving behind something of a husk.
New Orleans, for example, has similar problems with extreme levels of crime, but it has a constant infusion of tourist/convention dollars. Detroit had no such economic engine after many of the automakers pulled up stakes and moved operations to the city’s suburbs.
Were it not so unbelievably crime-ridden, Detroit’s recovery would be a whole lot easier.
“Because the producers were forced to pay for the slackers, and so they left, leaving the indolent to take more and more money from the state.”
Here in NJ it isn’t our welfare parasites that are primarily draining the state; it is the gubmint workers (especially teachers). The same happened in Detroit.
Too much current revenue is sent to pay people who retired 20 years ago (at the ripe age of 50); they’ll be collecting for decades to come.
Why? Very simple.
Detroit’s main employment driver was (obviously) automobile production. When union labor to build a GM vehicle is $72 an hour in Detroit, and non-union labor to build a Toyota anywhere averages $48 an hour, GM will lose a lot of market share and not have enough employees to dun in order to pay the pensions of retired workers from GM. There also will not be enough employees to pay the city taxes needed to run the city.
Why? Marxist unions...Marxist pols.A match made in a place somewhat lower than Heaven.
Tragedy of the Commons
when the collective has ownership, no ONE takes responsibility
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