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Posted on 04/17/2011 8:45:42 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
PROGRESSIVE WANTS TO RESCUE MOTOR CITY WITH SEX AND DRUGS
Could Detroit become America’s version of Amsterdam? As far as oft-mayoral candidate Geoffrey Fieger is concerned, why not give it a shot?
Feiger, who gained notoriety as Jack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian’s attorney, believes that legalizing pot and prostitution would attract young people to Detroit, which would turn the decaying city around “in five minutes.”
“I could turn it around in five minutes. I’d shovel the snow and I’d clean the streets and parks. Then, I’d tell the police department to leave marijuana alone and don’t spend one dime trying to enforce marijuana laws. I also would not enforce prostitution laws and I’d make us the new Amsterdam,” Feiger said on the TV show Michigan Matters. Ignoring pesky laws that stand in the way of the continued assault on America’s moral values is apparently not a tactic reserved for Barack Obama alone, huh? (I’m referring of course, to the administration’s announcement that it would no longer defend the federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.)
“You make Detroit a fun city. A place young people want to live and they would flock here.” Feiger added. Ahh, the mind of the Progressive. Disney World or ocean beaches for fun? No way. Drugs and hookers in a dying city? Now you’re talking.
Call me crazy, but it’s hard to imagine a sharp young guy saying, “Wow, this is a tough decision; on one hand, I want to go to Harvard, and possibly law school. On the other hand, I’m really tempted to move to Detroit because of the legalized pot and hooker situation up there. This is really a hard choice.”
Maybe Feiger is referring to young professionals who have already graduated from college. After all, one would need a decent job and a fair amount of discretionary income to buy sex and drugs. Oops — Detroit’s employment outlook isn’t exactly a bull market; perhaps tax credits for those who participate in all the fun would “do the trick.” (I couldn’t resist) And of course young folks with insufficient income could simply rob and burglarize. Got it.
“The city of Detroit couldn’t get any worse,” according to Feiger, who says he won’t run for mayor next time because the governor’s job is “more interesting.”
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Hey, if it’s good enough for Detroit, why shouldn’t the entire state of Michigan get to play?
Yeah, that’ll do it.
... hmmmmmm ... it just might work! [/s]
yeah Detroit...go for it...
You mean it is not already legal there, damn don’t tell the hoes.
Abandoning morality will help. Legalize murder and rape too, then Detroit becomes a utopia.
morons.
Hmmm...is it covered under NAFTA?
I just can’t believe anybody would move to a place for the drugs and the hoes.
Ya, I thought Detroit was already full of drugs and hookers and gangs and God knows what else. The only difference would be that the cops wouldn’t deal with it anymore.
Let’s be honest.
He’s gearing up for a primary challenge against Fat Pig Bovine Deb Stabacow for the senate seate here.
This porcine/bovine/Marxist whatever is going down, at least for now MI is a red state.
Oh yeah, that’ll set the old motor city to rights.
Call me when they start bulldozing the ruins into the crater.
Should declare the city a tax-free zone and it’ll recover in 5 years.
Amsterdam is full of curvy Dutch girls.
Detroit, not so much.
“Feiger ... believes that legalizing pot and prostitution would attract young people to Detroit”
Indeed. You’d have legions of young drug users, young drug dealers, young prostitutes, and young johns. But somehow it just seems like an economy based on drug dealing and prostitution wouldn’t be self-sustaining. Still, the Feds could print extra money so that they’d all have free houses, free cars, free food, and free medical care. At least for a while. You know, until the money didn’t have enough room for all the necessary zeros, and it became cheaper to burn the money for heat than to buy actual heating fuel with it.
How about legalized capitalism? Worth a try.
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