Posted on 07/10/2006 9:39:06 AM PDT by george76
Detroit, Michigan is a City in which all elements of political power is controlled by Democrats. It is absolute control as far back as I can remember.
State wide elected Democrats, including Governor Granholm, do absolutely nothing to provide reform to the citizens of Detroit.
“Detroit schools send more kids to prison and the welfare rolls than they do to college.”
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Detroit should be so proud of itself sending that commie Conyers to House every 2 years. Morons.
Blue cities like Detroit are the country's abcessed wounds, never healing, sickening the entire nation.
"Detroit"
Michigan would be a red state if it wasn't for that hell hole.
Nearly one in four public school students never graduate. That's a failure rate of 25 percent for a job that shouldn't be all that difficult.
And if you figure that less than one-fourth of Michigan students earn college degrees -- fast becoming the basic threshold for success in our economy -- you could legitimately say the failure rate is above 75 percent.
In urban districts, the performance is even more dismal. Only 22 percent of students who start ninth grade in the Detroit Public Schools graduate from the district. They either drop out, move away or choose other alternatives.
Detroit schools send more kids to prison and the welfare rolls than they do to college. And for that, taxpayers give the district $1.5 billion a year.
DeVos couldn't do a better job of destroying the schools if he wanted to. But he doesn't.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060709/OPINION03/607090366/1007/OPINION&template=printart
The same could be said of Illinois (Chicago) and probably a lot of other states too.
Big cities are where the "gimme something for nothing crowd" congregates.
Detroit blames racism on its failures.
Course, there are 21 (all blacks) on that council.
Detroit has one city employee per 41 residents. For comparison, Indiapolis has 1 for every 201 residents. There is a statute in MI that mandates that Detroit get about 25% of the state's revenue sharing funds, but only has about 10% of the state's population. They get $1.1 billion per year for "educating" the chirrrun, but have about a 50% graduation rate. That's from State Rep. Jack Brandenburg.
I've also heard elsewhere that there are around 9000 abandoned properties in Detroit.
Kwame is a corrupt, "thug-liaafe" gangsta-lifestyle kind of mayor, giving cushy city jobs to his friends.
Detroit is also, if anyone cared to look, a source of great vote fraud.
I was born and raised in Detroit. Until about 1965 it was a great place to live. By the early 70s crime began to take over. The last white administration answered with STRESS: Stop Robberies and Enjoy Safe Streets.
Cops would pose as stranded motorists looking like easy marks, when the criminal attempted a mugging, they were arrested.
The ACLU, NAACP, Democratic Party, and every leftist group in the city screamed. The Chief of Police was replaced, so was the administration. What followed was the message to citizens "as regards crime, you are on your own".
In 2000 my mother was mugged. I live 175 miles away. When I went to the police and asked for more protection an officer told me to move her out of town. I did.
Looks what's left in the city. Drugs, crime, poverty, welfare. One parent households bringing up kids. The schools are a kid's warehouse, and the police merely help victims with paper work for their insurance company.
This is the result of forty years of liberal policy.
I was just in Detroit. Drove by the old tiger stadium and went into Motor City Casinos. Detroit is a mess. The only thing saving it is the gambling. The city has been decimated by corrput politicians who just happen to be black. That's correct, corrupt black politicians killed detroit.
Another reason to buy a Toyota
Which is why they are the favorite place for all the ambulance chasing "free" lawyers to run their daytime TV ads.
Detroit does have a very nice Airport if you happen to be flying through. Just don't make it a destination.
Democrats and RINOS hate the idea of personal responsibility.
If a person has to depend on the government for transportation, housing, etc, the government has more power over the people.
Ya wanna do a little research? I say that american soldiers ( or americans in general ) are statistically safer on the streets of Iraq than in the city of detroit.........or washington dc.........or l.a..........anybody wanna bet me?
Saving?
Gambling and corrupt politicians go hand in hand.
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