Detroit MICHIGAN (Union thug state):
Posted on 02/11/2011 9:28:43 PM PST by wheresmyusa
AMID THE animated rodents, smushed test-babies, snack-food perversions, and crude humor of Sunday’s Super Bowl ads was a powerful, two-minute homage to Detroit, America’s most abject city. Over a pulsating soundtrack of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,’’ viewers were treated to panning shots of some of Detroit’s lovingly restored landmarks from the days when the auto industry made it the richest city in the United States. Today it is the poorest, with a 36 percent poverty rate.
Far from avoiding its grim, rust belt image, the ad — ostensibly to introduce a new Chrysler luxury sedan — celebrated the city’s guts-and-grit industrial base, its smokestacks, its hard times. “It’s the hottest fires that make the hardest steel,’’ the narrator intoned.
It was a goosebump moment for sure. But it will take more than an appeal to regional pride to save Detroit, home to 80,000 abandoned buildings and an unemployment rate of 29 percent. It will take a national urban policy the likes of which the United States hasn’t seen for 40 years.
Detroit is only the starkest symptom of decades of wholesale disinvestment in the nation’s older urban centers. The same conditions obtain on a smaller scale from Trenton to Buffalo to Lawrence. “If you don’t have a platform of national policy you’re really sailing against the wind," said Bruce Katz, vice president and director of the Metropolitan Policy program at the Brookings Institution.
But Katz would broaden the lens to include a new economic plan for the whole nation. For too long, he says, America’s economic policy has focused on consumption, home ownership, and the financial industry.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Here is a whole website of sadness. I spent hours looking through this fun explorers site seeing the decay of one of our industrial hubs. It’s a legitimate ghost town.
http://detroiturbex.com/index.html
Green and sustainable?
Detroit MICHIGAN (Union thug state):
What a flippin’ waste. The fruits of socialism (a system based on little more than envy).
subsidized by the rest of America too
Exactly. I grew up in Detroit and I loved their unique architectural style. It is just too too sad to see what has become of the place.
Remove the skyscrapers from that picture and it could be confused with the slums of Bangladesh.
yep, and that’s what my parents did. Thank God. But I still have a soft spot for the place where I had a terrific childhood.
Notice how the snappy little word “Smart” seems to accompany so many fraudulent programs of the Left.
Good idea. Redistribute reparations for Detroit to victims of earlier redistribution.
Do a Google search on “smart growth.” Note how many of the hits are government agencies. Including the EPA, of course.
If you have questions about Smart Growth, the Wikipedia article in the Google list is a pretty good source.
Smart Growth is a socialist’s dream come true. It incorporates compact neighborhoods (another term for people living on top of one another; kiss the suburbs goodbye), public transportation, sustainable development, climate protection, environmental protection, etc. Saul Alinksy is sitting up and paying attention!
Smart Growth has a lose connection to Agenda 21.
I lived in the city and suburbs all my life. When I retired I made the big change to rural life. Seven or so years into it, I say FU Smart Growth!
As long ago as 1979 when business took me to Detroit (when there was still business to be done there), I was appalled to find that a Wendy's restaurant had the counter staff working behind bulletproof glass. You placed your order and it was delivered via a lazy susan-type of arrangement. That's over 30 years ago and I can only imagine how this Socialist cesspool has gotten worse since then.
Of course Michael Moore and his ilk will be quick to defend Detroit, labor unions and demonRATS.
I assume you were a Gross Point person.
It certainly isn't perfect here (too many Messkins in my view) but there is a strong, unapologetic Conservatism that pervades the region. The business of Texas is business and we're not ashamed of that stance. Folks are glad to make money here and have no sense of guilt about doing so.
Labor unions are weak in Texas (as they should be, if not non-existent).
Our school textbooks are pro-Constitution and largely devoid of the taint of liberalism.
Republicans are in control of the state and I hope they'll make sure our 4 new districts are apportioned to be GOP by any means necessary.
If the money and effort spent trying to resuscitate Detroit were to be spent on a vibrant city, where would the bigger gain come? I vote for Tulsa or Keokuk vs. Detroit.
Preposterous, laughable democrat party propaganda from the NY Times owned Boston Globe:
“Progressive” BS party line from people without the slightest clue (or desire) to create a single job.
“Smart Growth” ping.
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