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To: Swordmaker
Imagine you bought a nice home in a good, safe middle class neighborhood in Detroit in the 1960’s or early 1970’s.

You and your family live there. You work hard to keep up your home. You have a mortgage.

Then the neighborhood goes bad. Your home is broken into. Your kids aren't safe going to school. Your wife is threatened shopping for groceries.

You try to sell your home. It is worth nothing.

You can't pay off the mortgage and afford to buy a new home in a nice area. Your family is not safe where you live. The neighborhood gets worse every day. The stores close and are boarded up.

That actually happened to thousands of middle class families in Detroit.

If you want to feel sympathy, feel it for them. Not for some speculator living in Austria.

12 posted on 10/08/2014 9:05:28 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Sounds like the movie “Gran Torino”


14 posted on 10/08/2014 9:22:08 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: detective
Then the neighborhood goes bad.

Democrats get elected. There, fixed it for you.

19 posted on 10/08/2014 10:55:37 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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