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Shrinking Detroit has 12,000 abandoned homes
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| Sun Aug 14, 5:03 PM ET
Posted on 08/15/2005 3:32:16 AM PDT by TimeLord
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To: Allegra; Bacon Man; Hap; humblegunner; Eaker; TheMom
Y'all will have to get started without me . . . I have a Chronicle gig 6:00 to 7:30 that night!
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posted on
12/11/2006 9:16:14 AM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: Rebelbase
"Lead in bricks?" Let me venture a guess and say someone will eventually declair Detroit a "Federal Disaster Area" and we will have another Katrina-like evac at taxpayers expense. Watch closely, and see who picks up the debts in the future.
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posted on
12/11/2006 9:22:09 AM PST
by
devane617
(It's McCain and a Rat -- Now what?)
To: Allegra; Xenalyte; humblegunner; Hap; Eaker; TheMom
Nick's on Thursday, anyone? :-D Hap's office Christmas party is Thursday which lets us out. :(
You back for good now?
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posted on
12/11/2006 12:03:31 PM PST
by
Bacon Man
(I sleep now!)
To: DugwayDuke
Exactly what I thought. Every bad aspect of that city mentioned in the article can be traced back to an over-regulation of free trade...starting with the unions who took so much from their employers that their employers had to let them go. They had no jobs, so they had to move out of the city. That was one of the first dominoes. Their solution is not more free trade, but more regulation to try to take money from a captive audience. And they're actually considering turning the land into farmland? By the time they got finished with the superfund sites and the hazmat cleanup, there'd be no soil left. Just getting rid of the lead-tainted soil would take off the top inch.
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posted on
12/12/2006 12:27:07 PM PST
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
To: NZerFromHK
I got lost in Detroit one morning and stopped at a convenience store to ask directions back to the highway. All of the items for sale were behind a 2" thick bulletproof glass wall. The people had to tell the shopkeeper what they wanted and he would go and get it, after he got the money.
The neighborhood looked like Berlin in May of '45.
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posted on
12/12/2006 12:39:09 PM PST
by
Pietro
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
I find it interesting that a part of the new bankrupcy code is for MUNICIPAL Bankrupcies.
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posted on
12/12/2006 12:39:33 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Jacquerie
"Are there any livable majority minority cities?" Yes. Selma, Alabama.
This isn't a Black/White issue. It's a liberal/conservative, marxist/capitalistic issue.
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posted on
12/12/2006 12:55:06 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: TimeLord
Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries There go the votes.
To: sittnick
Yeah, but he hadda runaway too!
To: devane617
"declair" ! ? Now that is a dandy of a spelling error!
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posted on
12/12/2006 1:12:23 PM PST
by
Jason_b
To: Jason_b
"declair" ! ? Punctuation dude. Try this for assistance:
http://www.grammarbook.com/
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posted on
12/12/2006 1:39:11 PM PST
by
devane617
(It's McCain and a Rat -- Now what?)
To: devane617
declair Mmmmmmmm... d'eclair!
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posted on
12/12/2006 1:41:47 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Who invented rock and roll hiccups?)
To: afraidfortherepublic
In Detroit, after you pay your federal taxes FICA etc, you get to pay -
3.9% MI state income tax
3% Detroit city income tax
6% MI state sales tax if you buy anything
3.4% to 4.3% property tax
That's right Virginia, on a $200,000 house you'd be socked for another $6800 a year, on top of your wonderful mortgage payment. The feds will take a third of your income and the locals will take a quarter, leaving you and the bank to tug of war over less than half.
Owning property in metro Detroit is financially insane.
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posted on
12/12/2006 1:52:15 PM PST
by
JasonC
To: Revolting cat!
My Favorite. D'clair with a Caffe Latte.
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posted on
12/12/2006 2:28:25 PM PST
by
devane617
(It's McCain and a Rat -- Now what?)
To: Southack
This isn't a Black/White issue. It's a liberal/conservative, marxist/capitalistic issue. Yes, I suppose you are right.
Still, Detroit's plight is another reminder that civilization is fragile and brittle. Civilization has retreated before and history is littered with such lessons. Not just Rome but 14th century France, 1930s Germany, the Soviet Union, the last thousand years in Persia, the list goes on.
Radical leftist unions combined with equally thuggish Marxist local government brought a once prosperous city to ruin. I trust God alone will forgive the left, I will not.
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posted on
12/12/2006 2:33:56 PM PST
by
Jacquerie
(Great nations are born stoic and die epicurean. Will Durant)
To: Jacquerie
It should surprise no educated person that "civilized" people of even moderate means are "retreating" from Marxist-run areas such as Detroit (complete with clutched-fist Lenninesque statue).
Detroit has neither weather nor geography on its side to stem the tide. Its downtown land has lost so much value that its "best use" is now considered agricultural.
Well, once you turn urban blocks back into the farmland from whence they came, you've pretty well stated that you aren't in an area that knows how to manage prosperity.
The wealth of Ford and GM has been frittered away into the abyss of corruption and mismanagement that always goes hand in glove with Marxism.
Cuba, North Korea, and Zimbabwe can relate.
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posted on
12/12/2006 2:56:10 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
"Their solution is not more free trade, but more regulation to try to take money from a captive audience."
Well, you can have too much freedom don't you know. Just read any of the 'free trade' or 'walmart' threads here on free republic. They are replete with calls for limiting your freedom to purchase what you want from who you want.
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posted on
12/12/2006 4:02:45 PM PST
by
DugwayDuke
(Conservative have so many principles that they won't even vote for themselves.)
To: Rebelbase
Lead in bricks?Yup, so Superman can't peek thru 'em
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