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Detroit in ruins
The Guardian ^ | January 2, 2011 | Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Posted on 01/02/2011 9:37:18 AM PST by hcmama

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To: Ditter

Betcha many other salvage businesses have tried and failed to get permission to do it legally.


121 posted on 01/02/2011 12:05:33 PM PST by sinanju
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To: epow
A 1/4-century from now all of the US will look worse and BE worse than Detroit today unless the millions of centrist voters of both major parties get a clue about what these mis-named "progressives" are doing to our nation before 2012 comes around.

You forgot the Corruption that will be worse in all those locals, Just like Detroit's Corruption that is getting cleaned up now...

That is why Karmanos, Roger Penske and one other give Kawama Kilpatrick a "loan" of high 6 figures and promise of a job to get him "Off Stage" in Sept of 08' so that Obama could not be compared to Kawame. I bet that went all the way to the top of the DNC. It was too much of a distraction. Those gents mentioned are now in deep doo-doo as the Feds look into their "loan".

122 posted on 01/02/2011 12:09:51 PM PST by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Ditter

That’s awesome!!! Did you strip them yourself?

Detroit? Ok, I’d love some wainescoting! Tell me when, I’ll pack the heat and the Kevlar.


123 posted on 01/02/2011 12:12:24 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: MaryFromMichigan

I would wager a bet that it is safer in downtown Baghdad than my old neighborhood near Detroit City Airport.


124 posted on 01/02/2011 12:13:21 PM PST by gigster
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To: WaterBoard

Do tell. Here in D.C. it took about a quarter-century before developers were willing to come back in force to build on those “parking lots” and knock down the old boarded-up houses and businesses and start to “gentrify” the NorthEast neighborhoods. I remember downtown D.C. in the seventies and eighties, that was one slow process. But hey? Who is going to invest millions building in a neighborhood when it can all be wiped away in a few “days of rage”?

What is Southeast L.A. looking like these days, I wonder? Rodney King and Reginald Denny were much more recent.


125 posted on 01/02/2011 12:13:27 PM PST by sinanju
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To: RC2
It needs to be leveled and turned into pasture.

A better idea would be to put a fence around it, call it the Museum of Liberalism and charge admission to schools and tour groups.

126 posted on 01/02/2011 12:17:54 PM PST by garbanzo (You better hold on; This one's about to get bumpy.)
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To: garbanzo

“A better idea would be to put a fence around it”

A la “Escape From New York”?

If Hollyweird ever remakes it, Detroit would be the perfect location for filming.


127 posted on 01/02/2011 12:23:37 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Check out The Onion-Detroit Sold For Scrap-April 5 2006.


128 posted on 01/02/2011 12:23:39 PM PST by gigster
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To: hcmama

Most islamic-infested city in America as well. Coincidence? Nope it’s run by PC multicultural black liberal politicians.


129 posted on 01/02/2011 12:23:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: gigster

Thanks! Now that’s funny!!!


130 posted on 01/02/2011 12:29:29 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: Hardastarboard

Who would eat anything grown in that soil after 100+ years of industrial pollution.


131 posted on 01/02/2011 12:32:57 PM PST by j_tull (I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
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To: Aleya2Fairlie

Thanks for posting that excellent video by Steven Crowder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw&feature=related

I urge everyone to watch it.


132 posted on 01/02/2011 12:37:16 PM PST by samtheman
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To: j_tull

Interesting thought. Detroit is a toxic sewer, due to rampant capitalism, unenforced regulations, illegal dumping, or all of the above.

if we deregulate and get manufacturing jobs to re-appear in the US, will more cities become like this.


133 posted on 01/02/2011 12:39:42 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: hcmama

I could only look at the first 6 pictures, and then I had to stop, feeling more thandistressed, ashamed. It’s looking at pictures of the decomposition of a corpse.


134 posted on 01/02/2011 12:52:46 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Do you mean now?" ---Yogi Berra, when asked "What time is it?" ---)
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To: hcmama

>>Truly sad and frightening to see how steep the decline has been and how it occurred over a relatively short period.

It has been a 40 year plus slide. The city proper had major issues going back to the 1960s.


135 posted on 01/02/2011 1:01:54 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est.)
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To: hosepipe

“Could it be that you are ....WronG!...”

Sure, I could be wrong. On the other hand, maybe those cites (and other places)have not as yet arrived at the end of their life cycle. life cycles may vary with cities as with animals, plants, humans, etc. :)


136 posted on 01/02/2011 1:09:12 PM PST by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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To: RC2

“The only problem with this is that the people living in that slum will move to other cities and destroy them also. The country needs to come down on these people and come down hard on them.”

Look at many of the Katrina refugees that are in other states’ cities with no intention of going back. I thank God NJ doesn’t share a border with Louisiana. We had a scandal here where realtors were diverting urban blacks from NJ to Altoona, Pennsylvania; nobody wants the hot potato.


137 posted on 01/02/2011 1:10:48 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: nathanbedford

bump


138 posted on 01/02/2011 1:11:17 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: castlegreyskull

“Seems to me if I wanted to get great farmland, Detroit would be a good place to look.”

The land might be cheaper, but you have to pay a platoon to guard during the harvest (not just to protect workers/equipment, but also so the locusts don’t get your crops at night).


139 posted on 01/02/2011 1:15:42 PM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: hcmama

140 posted on 01/02/2011 1:16:14 PM PST by Bobalu ( "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." ..Moshe Dayan:)
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