Detroit --- Why?

July 19, 2013 | MosesKnows

[MosesKnows]

Detroit --- Why?

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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

[Lakeshark]

Before we moved to the Ann Arbor area (one hour
west of Detroit), all I knew about Detroit was the news of the riots in the sixties. Once we moved to the area, most of the news I heard coming from Detroit was sound bites of the then mayor Coleman Young. Here was a black man elected the mayor of Detroit, and almost everything that came out of his mouth was blaming white racism for Detroit's falling fortunes.

He played that game successfully until he died, and from what I understand, he and his cronies looted that city, drained it dry while stoking the flames of racial discord. For him (and his cronies) it was a wonderful run. For the city of Detroit it was a disaster. His legacy: A hollow shell of one of the premier cities in America. A bitter, racist, violent inner city that may never recover.

Two of our kids live in the close suburbs now (what used to be called auto worker heaven), and one thing not being talked about is the new generation surrounding Detroit that is making a cultural and economic revival occur there. It's really quite impressive. They use the city sometimes, for the sports teams, a few restaurants, cultural events, but other than that, Detroit itself remains the same hollow shell that Coleman Young left it.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

‘zackly.

[Lakeshark]

MI discussion thread about Detroit’s bankruptcy.

[Last Dakotan]

The current American machine tool industry;

The ex Warner & Swasey works Cleveland, OH

The current Japanese machine tool industry;

The Mitsubishi machine tool Ritto Machinery Works

[IwaCornDogs]

Another great resource for your consideration ... Detroit, An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff.
“So much out of LeDuffs book reads like scenes out of MAD MAX, where bands of criminals roam the streets and rule the night in the post apocalyptic city”...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/03/10/Detroit-review-Charles-Hurt

[longtermmemmory]

It should be called “The Lost City of Detroit”

[satan]

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.

In other words Atlas Shrugged.

[roostercashews]

Reporter plays golf through (not in, but through) Detroit. From 8 Mile Road to Belle Isle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9uzDelNvDg

Sad and sickening.

[ctdonath2]

“I was suspicious if the pictures were accurate.”

Google Street View. Nuff said.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Their main problem is that they didn’t have a Ben Bernanke ... they could have just printed their way out.....

[JoeTheGeorgian]

— We surrender, the USSR won, now help us—

Planes leave daily for Moscow, tovarisch.

[Little Ray]

Doesn’t help that the quality of American cars slipped badly during the same period...

[Jack Black]

Thanks for the reporting playing through Detroit clip! Fantastic stuff. He wrote a book I'm reading. A must read for people who want to understand the city.

[88keys]

*ping* to save...and this was 2-3 years ago...I couldn't believe it, looking at this city now?!!

Something needs to be done, but not by the Fed's. A "bail-out" only throws good money after bad. Someone(s) will have an idea, and praying for clean up and restoration of that once-great city.

"Handwriting-on-the-wall" alert for everyone who lives in/near a city, especially Great-Lakes/Mid-West/industrial states...

[88keys]

..."one thing not being talked about is the new generation surrounding Detroit that is making a cultural and economic revival occur there."

That is heartening news, and thanks for posting! Similar "re-building" is happening here in Cleveland City Ohio...and it's the American way to be "builders", no matter how many times we are knocked down. If only we had a real and realistic "work ethic" across the board...

[IwaCornDogs]

Funny you should mention walls ... Did you see this article posted a short time ago about the guy that wants to build a 12’ wall around a suburb of Detroit to keep the criminals out?
When the bizarre starts to sound fairly reasonable, you know you’re in real trouble.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3045133/posts