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Detroit and Decay [city may abandon half its schools to pay union benefits]
WSJ ^ | JANUARY 15, 2011 | WSJ

Posted on 01/16/2011 7:29:31 AM PST by Brilliant

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To: Personal Responsibility

That would probably work if they had the discipline to not create the whole mess over again at the bargaining table.

It’s not going to be pretty when it all collapses.


21 posted on 01/16/2011 7:59:00 AM PST by Horusra (The Democrat party is now the National Socialist party (nationalize the banks, socialize healthcare))
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To: Personal Responsibility

Years ago it was not uncommon for classes to be larger than 50 students. Of course the children behaved in those days.


22 posted on 01/16/2011 8:01:12 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: Brilliant

“MO Town” is now “NO Town”.


23 posted on 01/16/2011 8:02:47 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: shove_it

I grew up in Dearborn in the 60’s and 70’s. Very nice. My dad worked for Ford. Dearborn is still considered one of the better places in the area, but the whole area has gone downhill. My brother still lives in Northland. He’s one of the few GM survivors.


24 posted on 01/16/2011 8:05:03 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: vladimir998

It’s government of the unions, by the unions, and for the unions.


25 posted on 01/16/2011 8:05:59 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: 6SJ7; All
Detroit in RUINS! (Crowder goes Ghetto) is the single best explanation of what happens when unions and liberals take control.
I highly recommend folks watch it.
26 posted on 01/16/2011 8:11:38 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: Horusra
From the look of this they could close every school and not have enough money to pay pensions. Perhaps they should look into dumping the pension altogether to the Fed pension security fund and just re-org the whole thing under new contracts.

Pensions were always just a way to hide expenses by dumping them onto future generations. Well, we are now the future generation that has to pay the expenses of past union contracts.

The only long-term remedy would be to outlaw pensions for new hires, and give them 401Ks instead, but that would mean paying pensions for past retirees AND putting money into 401Ks now.

27 posted on 01/16/2011 8:12:41 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: Brilliant

You have to log in to get the rest of the article. What other facts does it provide? Thanks


28 posted on 01/16/2011 8:13:03 AM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Brilliant
Anything that government touches gets destroyed financially.

The 800 lbs. gorilla in the room that goes unnoticed.

29 posted on 01/16/2011 8:18:30 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Brilliant
My dad retired from FoMoCo too. Dearborn bears little resemblance to Old Orvie Hubbard's kingdom. My brother is stuck in Sterling Heights and can't sell his townhouse; he recently retired and wants to get down here to Melbourne where I'm living.
30 posted on 01/16/2011 8:19:30 AM PST by shove_it (have a nice day)
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To: Brilliant

Yep, no union member left behind.


31 posted on 01/16/2011 8:22:22 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: 6SJ7

That’s why I return only to attend funerals of family and friends. My old neighborhood is gone too.


32 posted on 01/16/2011 8:23:53 AM PST by shove_it (have a nice day)
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To: Cheetahcat

“These people are the Non-Productive Wasteful side to our Society,they are completely incapable of governing.”

....I agree....my Baltimore-Washington experiance tells me that black Democrats make poor elected officials...I read of similar results in New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta and Richmond...this is not a new outcome btw...same thing happened after the WBTS when crooked Whites and freed Blacks seized power in the South...and looted what was left.


33 posted on 01/16/2011 8:24:47 AM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: shove_it

I’m a life long Red Sox fan going back to Ted Williams. Even in spite of that, my favorite World Series was 1968. Tigers over the Cardinals in seven. Those were the days.


34 posted on 01/16/2011 8:26:33 AM PST by Sam Clements
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To: Brilliant

amazing.. I lived there for 15 years. who would of thunk? my family will continue to b*tch that this problem is all the cause of the rich and greedy. Indeed, they still have a Tom Joad idea of wonderful unions, protecting the working man from the rich and powerful.

wrong target... oops, not very civil of me.


35 posted on 01/16/2011 8:28:10 AM PST by Chuzzlewit
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To: Sam Clements
I got Al Kaline’s autograph when he was a rookie on the Tigers. Grandstand tickets at Briggs Stadium were 75 cents in those days, as I recall.
36 posted on 01/16/2011 8:33:57 AM PST by shove_it (have a nice day)
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To: Rumplemeyer

Peter Kiewit & Sons Co.?

I worked for them in the late 1960’s. They’ve been around quite a while.


37 posted on 01/16/2011 8:38:26 AM PST by umgud
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To: Brilliant
Found this at moonbattery.com. A picture that sums it up.
38 posted on 01/16/2011 8:39:59 AM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: Brilliant

HAH, this must be for the Cheeeeldrens benifit somehow.


39 posted on 01/16/2011 8:40:17 AM PST by MaxMax
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To: Brilliant
Slideshow entitled "Detroit Scool Supplies"
40 posted on 01/16/2011 8:56:01 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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