Obamacare And The Death Of Detroit, The First U.S. City To Face Extinction

The Market Oracle ^ | 3-24-2010 | Gary North

[muawiyah]

Hmm ~ you callin' my brother a liar?

Hey, I was there the day after the sunshine. It was really grim. Cold. Gray. Miserable. Worst climate in North America.

Everybody knows it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The only thing left to plan is how to turn the vast desolated areas into gardens. People have already been doing it and living off the land. But the city wants to get into the act.

[MississippiMan]

WOW. I knew Detroit was in horrendous condition, but a $7,000 median house price???? WOW. And like the article says, nary a word from that fine MSM. They’re far too busy chasing racial ghosts at protests. Sheesh.

MM (in TX)

[DJ Frisat]

I have lived in this area for approximately 57 of my 59 years. Anyone who claims that there was only one day of sunshine out of any contiguous block of 365 days, is either a liar or is mentally ill. That includes you, your brother, the Pope. It is simply factually untrue.

Cold, gray, miserable? Worst climate in North America? Won’t argue, if that’s your opinion. Everyone’s entitled.

One day of sunshine in a year? You are full of sh*t. Period. And, to quote you:

Everybody knows it.

[muawiyah]

I believe it was 1971 or 1972.

[Graybeard58]

It’s a terrifying time to be on the threshold of growing old.

I'll be 65 in June, I'm one of the "expendable" ones.

[CriticalJ]

Here are two more:

http://www.forgottendetroit.com/

http://www.detroityes.com/home.htm

[ishmac]

Yes, the ugliness that is Detroit is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't experienced it firsthand. I was a seminarian at Sacred Heart Seminary from 2004-2006, and I have never seen such a disfunctional municipality. It's like something out of the Road Warrior. I grew up on the other side of Michigan (in Niles, a little north of South Bend IN), and have lived all over the world: San Fransisco and the Bay Area, Monterrey, CA, Nurnberg, Germany, Prague, Czech Republic, Dresden, Germany, and now Houston. Detroit is the absolute biggest crap heap I have ever lived in. Dresden (that's right, the city reduced to ashes in the infamous firebombing and rebuilt on the socialist model in the DDR) was a friendlier place to live in. The only time I ever heard more gunfire than in Detroit was when I was in the Persian Gulf. No kidding!! The place is a scale model version of a 3rd world sh!thole. It's as though it's permanently stuck in the 1970's. Never seen anything like it.

[chimera]

The “detroityes” was my link. It has a section that shows where some people are trying to revitalize certain areas, but on balance it looks like a losingeffort.

[Graybeard58]

I seriously doubt there’s any place in the 57 U.S. states that has only one day of sunshine per year.

[DemforBush]

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before on FR, but some years back I worked for a company with branch offices in Chicago and Detroit (among other places).

Lemme tell ya, folks. For all the talk of “The Chicago Way”, Chi-town ain’t got a darned thing on Detroit when it comes to government red tape, inefficiency and corruption. I have never seen a more hostile business environment in my life.

[DJ Frisat]

Absolute bulls*it.

See what NOAA has to say about it, on average:

Weather facts

You need to learn not to believe everything you hear...

[CriticalJ]

Oops.

Didn’t realize it was the same site. I had it bookmarked under a different name.

[festusbanjo]

The only thing that I can reasonably relate it to is Calcutta.

[Alberta's Child]

I can't confirm if this is true, but I recently read an article about Detroit that said this is a city of 900,000 people . . . and there isn't a single national grocery store chain with a location inside its borders.

That's quite astonishing.

[YHAOS]

Go to Bing Maps; do a 'bird's eye' of the area. See for your self.

Block after block of desolation.

Try Gary Ind. or East St. Louis. Same thing.

Welcome to the USSA . . . comrade.

[muawiyah]

NOAA has been discredited in Climategate (bwahahahaha). At the same time, “on the average” Detroit’s climate is simply miserable. Sometimes it’s truly abominable.

[muawiyah]

Gary is probably better. They have a program for removing nasty abandoned houses, factories, stores and apartment buildings.

[festusbanjo]

Or Port Au Prince, before or after the earthquake.

[mcshot]

And they sure know how to generate votes to cement their lot.