Posted on 10/24/2009 6:30:01 PM PDT by Son House
The September unemployment stats for Michigan came out this week and they are high — as expected.
Mlive.com highlighted the statistics on a municipal level, showing the five cities with the highest jobless rates are all over 25 percent. The cities of Highland Park and Pontiac, which leaned heavily on auto-related employment, had the highest unemployment with 35.2 percent of residents reportedly jobless. Both cities have declared bankruptcy in the recent past. Highland Park recently emerged from state receivership and Pontiac just slipped under state control last year.
While the overall state’s unemployment rate is the highest in the nation at 15.3 percent, the top five hardest hit cities in the state are all former automobile production hubs.
According to Mlive.com:
1.Highland Park 35.2% 1. Pontiac 35.2% 3. Detroit 27.9% 4. Flint 26.3% 5. Port Huron 25.7%
What do these statistics mean for residents in these cities? Many are packing up and heading out of state to find work, like one Detroiter who went as far as creating a website and a PayPal account seeking donations to help him leave the city.
The former Detroiter wrote on his “Help me leave Detroit” page, which features photos of crime and drug houses in his neighborhood:
“I live in Detroit. I am a skilled pipefitter, yet I am unemployed. Detroit’s unemployment rate is at a record 28.7 percent. 1/3 of Detroiters live at or below the poverty line. Crime is rampant. My house has been burglarized 9 times. My car window was bust by a thief who I caught breaking into the house down the street.
The blogging plumber is not alone. In April the Detroit News reported that every 12 minutes Michigan loses a family seeking work. The article noted that approximately 109,000 more people left Michigan in 2008 than moved in.
This state exodus is not helping the situation any. Detroit News’ Ron French writes:
“The families who are leaving — young, well-educated high-income earners — are the people the state desperately needs to rebuild.
Devil’s Night Fires Sweep the Nation
Oct 23, 2000
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_39_16/ai_66356275/
A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs,” says an idol of today’s youth, guitarist Tom Morello of the popular band Rage Against the Machine.
Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush and his Democratic rival, Vice President Al Gore, have capitalized on society’s increasing concern about the escalation of shocking and terrifying behavior by today’s youth.
While the debate rages, the nights are approaching when the country experiences more juvenile fire-setting than at any other time — Halloween, and the preceding Devil’s Night. Will the youth violence typical of these nights, particularly property damage and life-threatening behavior in the form of intentional firesetting, escalate as the presidential candidates debate?
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Will the youth violence typical of these nights, particularly property damage and life-threatening behavior in the form of intentional firesetting, escalate as the Stimulus bill FAILS?
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I can see where it would be very tempting to buy low, hoping to sell high later.
The trouble is, politicians can see and smell a two high stack of nickels six miles away, and they feel absolutely entitled to take them, especially in these hard times.
Every politician in Michigan would instantly have their hand in your pocket and in a couple seconds you would look like you stepped into a piranha feeding frenzy.
Don’t put your money on it. They’ll probably pick up seats.
Sounds lie a truly scary place,you gotta wonder if this is the future for other US cities? Is this the change zero has been chatting so much about?
I didn’t know there was anything left to burn.
Its amazing how that daniels guy could say those lines and not bust out laughing.What a truely gifted actor.What business owner would fall for that sh!t?
Wow,what a bunch of dumbasses.
There’s always room for more. They’ll just mug the people the Katrina crowd passed up.
And the Dems solution? Plow up the neighborhoods to shrink the cities, forcing people into more manageable areas while letting old neighborhoods go to greenspace.
Sure, why not? Put a fence around Detroit and don’t let that element out of there. Let them stew in their own mess.
Warren is at 20.8%
Thanks a lot Jenny, I guess I’ve been “Blown Away” by you.
Last week I got copy of an email from an Obama-loving, far left relative who lives in Grosse Point. Absolutely hilarious. She was outraged that the State of MI took $$$ from the GP schools to support other school districts. I had to ask: so, what’s wrong with a little income redistribution? Made my week!
These people should stay in MI and not go to another state to spread their liberal cancer. Lots of UAW and union stooges. You destroyed MI - now stay there and suffer.
These people and the UAW killed GM and Chrysler. Stay in MI.
These liberal union locust scum migrate and spread their liberal cancer.
Most of the Katrina worse of the violent worst have met a fateful ending in Texas. Hustonians were picking them off like flies as they attempted to conduct the usual New Orleans crime business in Houston. I must have read three articles a week about dead criminals from New Orleans.
There are still too many in Houston...
Someone make them stay in Michigan. They got in themess that they are iun because they voted for and supported liberals. Other states don’t want more liberals screwing things up for them.
They should just let Omni Consumer Products to go into Detroit and build their Delta City. There is plenty of vacant space and it would be a major improvement ;-)
My house in Westland is worth less than 1/2 of what I paid for it — 16 years ago.
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