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

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

[YHAOS]

"Gary is probably better. "

Probably. Still they are very much the same. Variation on a theme.

[DJ Frisat]

Now you’re talking like a liberal. I don’t care what you think of the climate. Your claim — 1 day of sunshine in a year — is demonstrably false, and you’re trying to change the subject.

I do agree that there’s very little sunshine where you’ve been keeping your head, though...

Good-bye, no point wasting more time with you.

[Commander X]

It is not just these old industrial centers. Do you knowwhat is happening to Long Island? It was once a bastion of middle class America with prosperous and safe suburbs. Now it has degenerated to either the super wealthy or the poor/ illegal aliens. Gangs, drugs, white (middle class) flight. Really sad. Long Island is just an example of what will occur in other middle class/suburban areas of the country.

[Publius6961]

When a city simply shuts down from the effects of government mismanagement, the media say nothing. Detroit has become the poster child of government regulation, welfare systems, and a population that has given up hope.

What's the need to complicate a very simple societal autopsy?
Incompetents are repeating the cause of the death of Detroit wholesale, on a national level, as we speak.

When the number of idle and unproductive plus the army of public employees necessary to "tend to them" exceeds the number of productive, the system begins to die.

When the numbers are skewed further, and the rate of taxation on the productive necessary to support the parasites pulls them down to the level of the idle and the public employees, they are left with just two choices : flee --- or join the idle or join the public employees.

Total collapse then ---must follow.
A sharp second grader can understand that.

[School of Rational Thought]

I don’t know why so many think that Obama doesn’t know what he is doing. The healtcare plan fits well with the Cloward Piven strategy.

Don’t foreget to add more than 10 million illegals into the system atop the 32 million promised.

[mcshot]

You’re not alone Graybeard.

[timestax]

[ishmac]

Port Au Prince

Bingo, that's a match!

[jmaroneps37]

http://www.collinsreport.net/2009/07/22/detroit-on-the-brink-what-50-straight-years-of-democrat-rule-has-done-to-a-once-great-city/

[muawiyah]

You can try to coverup Detroit all you want, but it won’t matter. The secret is out.

[festusbanjo]

It's true for a lot of different reasons. One, it's a very difficult place to set up any business. The city bureaucracy is along the lines of “too bad, go away, I don't care”. Two, the demographics are brutal. The income level is below poverty and when food stamps are the local currency, it's tough to legally sell the higher profit items that aren't Food Stamp eligible. Three, the security required inside and outside make it an exercise in futility as you'll never keep up with the vandals and thieves. Four, the unions will cost you before during and after you open. The union wages you'll have to pay for employees educated in the public schools who can't even make change will kill your bottom line. Even Walmart won't set up shop there.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Well, it does have free money.

[YHAOS]

"It is not just these old industrial centers."

I know. There are more such instances than one can track.

Jefferson weeps.

[DJ Frisat]

Exactly where have I attempted to defend Detroit?

My SOLE dog in this hunt is to illustrate your stupidity in making a ridiculous, undocumentable claim and your subsequent running away from the subject. That has nothing to do with the very real, imminent collapse of the city.

I respect other's opinions, but I stubbornly correct factual errors. I don't have any interest in trying to change your opinion, but you have been corrected, whether or not you are rational enough to realize it. Frankly, I doubt it.

Go back to the DU, where you'll be more at home with people who lie to themselves (and others) on matters-of-fact.

[dhs12345]

Too big to fail.

[muawiyah]

Look here "troll", I have a vivid memory of the year without Sun (except for one day). You don't.

Could be that you were only 6 or 7 years old at the time!

[Oratam]

At one time in the twentieth century Detroit was the fifth (or was it fourth) largest city in America.

[DJ Frisat]

You're a real piece of work.

First, it was: "My brother once moved to a Detroit suburb and in that year they had exactly 1 day of sunshine."

Then, you say: "Hey, I was there the day after the sunshine." and "I believe it was 1971 or 1972."

Now, it's: "I have a vivid memory of the year without Sun"

Wow -- that's some vivid memory of, maybe, 1971 or 1972!

"Could be that you were only 6 or 7 years old at the time!"

Seems you're not worth a sh*t at math, either. As stated, I'm 59. That means I was aged 20 through 22 in 1971 & 1972, not 6 or 7.

As for being a "troll", I've been here approximately the same length of time as you. I've run into a quite a few breathtakingly ignorant asses in that length of time, but you're exceptional.

Keep talking, you're distinguishing yourself more with each additional response.

[LostInBayport]

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.

It's a "food desert"!

[wireplay]

True.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070705/METRO/707050349