Posted on 10/26/2007 9:55:48 PM PDT by Westlander
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is proposing the sale of dozens of the city's 367 parks as part of an effort to raise money.
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I’m all for privatizing public lands. But what’s to stop these commies from just taking the land back under eminent domain as soon as you check clears the bank.
Detroit’s buzzards are finding fewer bones to pick. Next it will be scrap Iron, then copper wire.
To answer your question, though: absolutely nothing.
Can't wait to see what sort of mega-chump ''buys'' one of these parks.
Detroit - in the future - is crime ridden, and run by a massive company. The company have developed a huge crime fighting robot, which unfortunately develops a rather dangerous glitch. The company sees a way to get back in favour with the public when a cop called Alex Murphy is killed by a street gang. Murphys body is reconstructed within a steel shell and named Robocop. The Robocop is very successful against criminals, and becomes a target of supervillian Boddicker. Written by Colin Tinto {cst@imdb.com}
Remember when Mugabi had to arrange a loan to buy fuel for Zimbabwe? For some reason, this story reminded me of that.
Not a bad idea in some ways.
Because Detroit has a shortage of vacant land? I’m not getting this. There’s too much private sector land on the market already, so you flood it with more land? Huh?
Terrible idea. Completely undercuts the value of real estate, hurting residents and businesses by flooding the market. Economically boneheaded move.
Stolen copper has been "hot" in Detroit for several years now. Five or six looters are fried every year when they try to steal "live" wiring, but that doesn't stop the rest.
Scrap iron still isn't worth the effort, but you can make a good living (or get some crack to tide you over) stripping off aluminum siding from inhabited houses. The abandoned houses were stripped years ago, and then burned down.
I had some guy I worked with....grew up in Detroit in the 1960s...went back about three years ago. Out of the entire block that he grew up on...30 houses...only six were still occupied, with three or four burned out and rest sitting there. No one was sure about ownership, and the city didn’t appear to be wanting to take control...because...then what?
The city is decayed and dying out. If you have any money....you live way outside of town, and drive in. I would almost compare the place to New Orleans and its Ninth Ward. I don’t think any significant action will fix the Detroit situation...and the population of the city will spiral downward over the next 50 years...while suburbs grew each year.
I guess the RenCen didn’t catch on. In the 70’s I attended the Republican National Convention in Detroit, but already the city had a reputation for criminal activity, so I, and many other convention goers, chose Windsor Canada to stay in.
Looks like a Liberal’s paradise.
I get it... which is why I wonder the hell the mayor is thinking. There’s no shortage of land in Detroit. There’s a shortage of capital and a huge shortage of businesses and residents.
The pic in post 14 is from the Bronx, NY, taken in the 2nd half of 2006. Wilbert Tee Lawton primary flyer and those projects loomed large over my g-grandfather’s home.
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