Dr. Klahn: The CIA thinks they can infiltrate the Mountain of Dr. Klahn!
CIA Agent: You can't scare me!
Dr. Klahn: Take him to... Detroit!
CIA Agent: No! No, not Detroit! No! No, please!Anything but that! No! No!
Posted on 03/25/2007 11:32:45 AM PDT by LdSentinal
DETROIT – Hit by a slump in the American auto industry, Detroit and its suburbs lost more residents in the past six years than any comparable U.S. area except hurricane-battered New Orleans, census data released Thursday showed.
Wayne County, Michigan, lost more than 89,000 residents from 2000 to 2006 – a loss of 4 percent of the county's 2 million residents. The decline is behind only Orleans Parish in Louisiana, which lost 261,000 people in the same period with the vast majority of them after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area in 2005.
AdvertisementThe Wayne County exodus comes as General Motors Corp. , Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group – the three big automakers that gave Detroit its Motor City nickname – struggle with billions of dollars in losses and sliding sales. Michigan lost 336,000 jobs in the six-year period, according to a study by the University of Michigan. In the past year alone, domestic automakers have announced more than 80,000 job cuts as they restructure their operations.
“Detroit is driving those numbers,” Kurt Metzger, demographer and research director for the United Way of Southeastern Michigan, said. “People are aging, you've got older families where kids have moved out, birth rates are much lower but most importantly, you have all these job losses.”
U.S. automakers have been struggling with labor costs, tough competition, and weaker sales of profitable trucks and sport utility vehicles as consumers opt for more fuel-efficient options.
As Detroit reels from job losses in the auto industry, the depressed city also has seen a surge in home foreclosures. The city, where unemployment runs near 14 percent and a third of the population lives in poverty, leads the nation in new foreclosure filings, according to tracking service RealtyTrac.
“The population loss is going to be exceeded in the coming year with all the job cuts, and I think Wayne County will hold its place as No. 2 behind New Orleans,” Metzger said. “Things are pretty bad.”
Detroit has lost more than half its population in the past 30 years as it struggled with rising crime, failing schools and other social problems.
Dr. Klahn: The CIA thinks they can infiltrate the Mountain of Dr. Klahn!
CIA Agent: You can't scare me!
Dr. Klahn: Take him to... Detroit!
CIA Agent: No! No, not Detroit! No! No, please!Anything but that! No! No!
BTTT!
what is this from?
The original article has a "Reuters" tag.
not the article, the video capture.
The twin Chocolate Cities.
See, if I were Detroit, I'd be unhappy. The New Orleans area had to have one good hurricane on target, catch part of another, and get heavily flooded to lose all those people. Detroit simply had to be its own sweet self.
Kentucky Fried Movie.. Early Zucker..
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
You would think a declining population would make it harder to defraud elections year after year but the GOP still rolls over and lets it happen.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Wayne, Macomb, & Wastenaw counties (and others) are all feeling the seismic changes occurring with the big three.
Think of it this way, some folks commute an hr or greater to get to their auto related job site. Flint is feeling it too, that is quite a drive from Detroit.
Many some folks should look at a map of South East Michigan to really get a feel for what is going on.
Oops, sorry. It's Boong Soo Han, “Dr. Klahn”, from the “A Fistful of Yen” segment of Kentucky Fried Movie (1977).
It's decay alone. Cold and corruption doesn't drive people out of Chicago.
I guess the Muzzles will have to up their immigration rate.
Bingo !
Yeah, and the only reason Detroit is behind New Orleans in population loss is that a lot of the New Orleans refugees moved to Detroit.
Yes they are and the state is getting bluer.....
ahh.. looked like some kind of classic cult classic but I didn't recognize it. I went and found the clip on Youtube. What is the threat of Detroit about? Does Detroit has some double-meaning in this movie or it Detriot just supposed the horror-filled place that most of us see it as today?
1. Almost every car company in the world has design studios in Southern California.
2. Ford's luxury division is in Southern California.
3. I sold a house a couple of years ago, to an engineer leaving General Morors and Detroit, for a better job with Huyndai in guess where? Southern California.
4. New plants for US, Japanese and German makers are all over North America, except Detroit.
5. GM's latest rear wheel drive chassis are from their Australian subsidiary, Holden; not Detroit.
I have never been to Detroit, but these trends indicate an area in transition or decline. Time will tell, if transition is made.
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