Well, a picture can tell a thousand words.
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No, we haven't stolen enough. We are just getting started.
I'd estimate it to be worse than Hurricane Katrina because there is no Fema trying to get folks into better living conditions. The only economic stimulus was a welfare payment to help with heating bills, a line of folks 35,000 deep that only 10% gets assistance.
Taxes have to be lowered for all business and the rich who invest and create the Jobs, that is the only way to get the number of Jobs in diverse sectors to support as many Americans that want to work.
The politicians have to give up their lust for power over the private sector. Yes, the rich can get richer, but that is none of the Governments business, especially at the cost of losing more cities to this decline.
Immediate tax amnesty for the rest of this year, and a 9% flat tax, business or individual thereafter. Life is too precious.
Here’s our post from last night for links to those youtubes, ect;
Devil’s Night For Firefighters In Detroit Saturday
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375055/posts
Crappy cars built by crappy union workers, produced by crappy businessmen working with crappy union bosses is how Detroit died.
Detroit was destroyed on purpose. Now this nation is the target with Detroit as the model.
Bump for later. Nothing happened I my Dad’s ‘hood.
Half a century ago it was still dubbed the “arsenal of democracy”
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Now it’s just the “arse of democracy”.
Never had I seen or known how bad Detroit was till last night watching all the YouTube videos ...Incredible huh ... block after block of empty lots, rotting buildings, boats abandoned next to empty houses ...
Like this one:
...and still the murder capital of the wrold
There are two ways to approach urban decay. The first is to ignore it, leaving burned out husks of rotting buildings. The other is for the city to foreclose on the large areas of desolation, demolish it, then put in foliage to uptake the soil contamination.
Eventually it can be redeveloped, and the larger the area, the more valuable the redevelopment. If done intelligently, and entire “zone” can be redeveloped, that is a “city within the city”, an enclave of prosperity from which other redevelopment can grow outward.
Eventually, the city develops a permanent redevelopment plan, so that in turn, parts of the city are repaired, rebuilt, and improved on a regular, long term schedule. This is already being done in some of the western cities.
This could be the future of the whole country.
One word:
Brought to you by relentless Liberal Democrats.
The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal As Ethnic Cleansing
By now, it should be obvious that the government-sponsored initiative to renew this country's large cities which began in the 1930s and continued largely unabated in the East and Midwest through the 1960s and beyond has been a profound and devastating failure. More homes were destroyed than were ever built; once-great metropolises like Detroit lay in ruins; once-thriving neighborhoods were overwhelmed with drugs and crime; buildings that were built to last centuries fell to the wrecking ball mere decades after they were built; an entire generation of young people, both those who came to the cities and those who were driven from the cities into the suburbs, have grown up rootless, in a Hobbesian state in which man's life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."
The traditional explanation, the one which no one believes anymore, is that all this was done to eliminate "blight." A more recent explanation, only slightly less implausible, is that it all came about because of faulty design, as if a nation of 260 million people, one which had already produced the Columbian Exhibition of 1893, couldn't come up with anything more inspiring that the average strip mall. The real story, it turns out, is different from both previous explanations. What began as the World War II intelligence community's attempt to solve America's "nationalities problem" and provide workers for the nation's war industries degenerated by the early post-war period into full-blown ethnic cleansing.
E. Michael Jones has followed the advice of Christopher Wrenn. Looking around, he saw monuments, but monuments to the folly and malice of social engineering and a government that had declared war on large segments of its own people. In his meticulously documented book, he proves that urban renewal had more to do with ethnicity than it ever had to do with design or hygiene or blight. Urban renewal was the last gasp attempt of the WASP ruling class to take control of a country that was slipping out of its grasp for demographic reasons. The largely Catholic ethnics were to be driven out of their neighborhoods into the suburbs, where they were to be "Americanized" according to WASP principles. The neighborhoods they left behind were to be turned over to the sharecroppers from the South or turned into futuristic Bauhaus enclaves for the new government elites. Using political tactics like eminent domain and "integration," the planners made sure that the ethnic neighborhood got transformed into something more congenial to their dreams of social engineering than the actual communities of people they saw as a threat to their control.
The Slaughter of Cities proposes a new take on familiar territory, e.g., to give just one example, the civil rights movement. Does anyone, for example, really know why Martin Luther King abandoned his southern strategy and came to Chicago during the summer of 1966? Does anyone really know who brought him there? Does anyone know who told him which ethnic neighborhoods he would march through? Hint: it was a religious denomination usually associated with Philadelphia that had been at work trying to "integrate" Chicago's neighborhoods since 1951.
Jones concentrates on four cities - Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago - in a book whose conclusions will be shocking and controversial. The destruction of the ethnic neighborhoods that made up the human, residential heart of these cities was not an unfortunate by-product of a well-intentioned plan that somehow went awry; it was part of the plan itself.
Detroit - brought to you by the Democrat Party, liberalism and the UAW.
Well, a picture can tell a thousand words.
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No, we haven't stolen enough. We are just getting started.
The people that want Card Check essentially want to make the rest of the country look like Detroit...that is the ONLY result that can happen (and they know it).
It would be VERY SMART for the Republicans to get in front of the issue and continue to show clips and pictures of what Detroit looks like and ask America if that’s what they REALLY want for the rest of the country.
Detroit is a model of what happens when liberal Democrats spread the wealth. It brought the whole city down. Rule of law collapsed when people looked the other way.
the city went from the highest median income to a pittance.
Average home value $7,500. Trailers in Mississippi are worth more than that.
This is a shame. This is also an example of what America will become if we don’t get back to making everything rather than letting Commie China make it and sell it to us.
That lead paragraph reads like something out of Atlas Shrugged. It’s a shame when a once-thriving metropolis is turned into little more than a concrete and steel ghost town with pockets of ghettoes and a lot of people who have essentially given up on ever becoming anything. It reeks of hopelessness.
