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It took the communists about seven decades to destroy Eastern Europe. It took the communist unions about the same amount of time to destroy places like Detroit and Cleveland.
The irony is that even when the auto industry was making lots of money a decade ago and auto workers were earning paychecks that would be considered upper-middle class by almost any standards, the leftism of Detroit still made it undesirable.
I found it interesting that two of the top 10 cities were in California’s Central Valley.
Considering that I’ve heard some stories about how bad Fresno is leads me to ask “Is the Central Valley really that much of a hell hole?”
Anyone?
Poor Bloomberg: NYC came in fourth most miserable (taxes and long commutes).
Atlanta is much worse than Charlotte.
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The article says they looked at 150 cities, but only provide rankings — in a series of slideshow pictures, no less, in stead of a list — for ten. Where does one find the rankings for the other 140 cities?
I ran into this site last night:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetjuniper/sets/72157603302647339/
The site shows pictures of the Detroit Public School Book Depository and books piled knee deep in an abandoned building. I can’t believe you would just leave these books there to rot, many of them new in their wrappers. Didn’t the kids need them? Couldn’t the school district sell them or give them to more needy districts if they weren’t going to use them? Why let them just sit there?
I’ll have to add it to my other ‘dying Detroit’ sites, such as ‘Forgotten Detroit.’ http://www.forgottendetroit.com/index.html. It’s sad.
radiohead, Michigander by marriage and UM ‘75 and ‘99.
WE’RE NUMBER 1....WE’RE NUMBER 1....
Nary a Texas city on the list.
I was born in Michigan, grew up in Michigan, went to college in Michigan. Upon graduation, I decided the state would be a basket case for the next thirty years. I took a job in Texas.
I have lived in Texas since 1979. Never regretted leaving Michigan.
The ironic thing is that Unionism did prevent Communism from rearing its head in this country until recently. Now, what the Unions expected from Corporations, the people now expect from Government. And Corporations did a much better and efficient job at the giveaways, retaining profitability at the same time.
The one thing I am forced to agree with Michael Moore about, is that GM did abandon Flint first. I don’t think that even Michael Moore realized the real reason-to move all the operations to the Detroit Area to lessen and slow the impact on the more politically powerful Detroit, by an auto industry in decline. It was easy for the Detroit Media to then pretend that Detroit was somehow superior to Flint when in fact the two were virtually the same.
Yea baby! Two out of the top three.....that's almost a grand slam!
Since we're also going to have to add Kwami Kilpatrick as one of the most, if not the most, disgusting mayors in this country, can we consider this a grand slam then?
What Pontiac and his Indian allies couldn’t do the people of Detroit have done it themselves.
Ya gotta love those Tigers though!
What I don’t understand is why Detroit hasn’t had a death grip on the #1 spot since about 1967, with the exception of perhaps losing the #1 spot to New Orleans in 2005, and perhaps losing it to New York City in 1977.
What city has been worse that Detroit has only become #1 this year? As a lifelong Michigoose, I think I know what I’m talking about here.
Nice museum though. Well, for now. Eventually it’ll be looted and burned.
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I’m venturing a guess that these are nearly all democrat-run cities.
I drove through the entire state last December. Vast swaths of it look like a movie set for a Great Depression movie - boarded up businesses, vacant buildings, for sale signs everywhere, garbage on the streets.
The only image I didn’t see is a guy with a sandwich board that said “Will work for food.” That’s because so many people in Michigan feel that work is a disease to avoid.
Thank you, liberal idiot voters.