Yeah, “farms”. Must be a liberal “green” fantasy. Turn the cities of the “postindustrial” USA into “clean” farms and let China be the “filthy” manufacturing cesspool, I mean powerhouse.
Usually liberals get all hopped up over any hint of toxic contamination of land, but nobody’s asking whether these plots have residues of arsenic, mercury, lead, or other hazardous household wastes sufficient to get into the produce of the gardens. Even land like that might be good for growing flowers, but there ought to be a way of checking it.
How wonderful. The democrat party has finally gotten back to their roots!!!
Those folks democrat fascist love so much are back down on the welfare plantations and can work with the earth all day in exchange for their benefit check. Then, at night they can sing and dance, tell stories and talk about what the democrat leadership is doing up in the big house. If only it was a suitable place to grow cotton.
No one is willing to waste a good device there... Cost/benefit analysis and whatnot.
I an so evil in spirit that I welcome my death.
Not to be the skunk at the picnic among my fellow freepers, but I think this is a splendid idea. It took far too long. I’ve been saying to do this in abandoned neighborhoods in Cleveland for a decade.
I’ll love it even more if the gardens/orchards/farms are operated as private enterprises, rather than collectives. Yes, profit generating entities. This article demonstrates once again, that capitalism succeeds every place it is earnestly tried. Imagine, someone thought to sell, via delivery, fresh produce in areas where many people are without autos. And I suspect there are no supermarkets in the area to buy fresh produce, either. To the residents, this must feel like a godsend.
And don’t underestimate the value of gardening outside all day long in the summer; you’re too damn tired to get into any trouble. :)
black farmer subsidies?
Yes... green, postindustrial COLLECTIVE, communal farms... where everything is shared and nothing is owned.
Where, during the day, children attend indoctrination classes glorifying the Rev - “O” - lution.
Where happy, smiling, contented workers sing songs — in unison, of course — praising The One while toiling in the fields until sundown.
Where, at the end of each workday, the people of the new, liberated land ... relieved of the burdens of self-determination, personal “freedom”and organized religious faith.. gaze lovingly at 500-foot murals of Obama the Supreme smiling toward the skies.
Where, after opening as ordered with celebratory chants thanking the One for deliverance from the evil past, the people wait silently and obediently.. beneath the ubiquitous guard towers... in column formation with assigned, government-owned farming tools laying beside them.. for pre-recorded words of praise from the One Himself...
Where their hearts swoon as they hear the first teleprompter - generated words emerged from the loudspeakers...
“My dear subjects..”
Why not? The Obama White House has a sludge garden. Just take the project to a city sized level.
How about replacing all the liberalism (same definition as urban decay) with conservatism. There's something they havent tried.
Ever watch the movie “I Am Legend”? That’s Detroit in the very near future.
Looks like they’ll be needing an Agriculture Czar.
The same toxic climate of corrupt politicians backed by union thugs still exists, even if they grew marijuana on those farms, it would still implode financially once they demand union scale wages at all of the farms.
The socialist end-game is serfdom.
Socialism : Building a bridge to the 17th century...
Tree plantations.
Maple, oak, walnut, white pine, hickory, butternut, spruce, cedar. All great furniture wood.
White pine, yellow pine, spruce, and fir. All great construction wood.
Blackthorn, and fruitwoods for things like walking sticks and musical instruments.
Equestrian police to patrol it all.
They could grow medicinal marijuana and poppies, since they are experts at using the produce.
Looks like they’re only permitting rainbow and unicorn comments on the article - my comment is still awaiting moderation.
The land has suffered from precipitation of industrial pollutants and the crops will be unfit to eat.
Like the salt poured on the Carthaginian ruins, precipitated pollutants have made the land that is Detroit unfit for humans for decades to come.
Much more than that Detroit was once the wealthiest, most culturally dynamic Middle-class city in history. Its citizens were the best compensated workers in the world producing the best quality, most advanced products in the world. It was the industrial heart of America and in order to takedown America the Globalist had to destroy it.
They used a two prong attack. First they transferred the industry to Red China through a combination of onerous regulations and taxes, outrageous demands by the labor unions they control, and through subsidies and tax breaks to Corporations to move their operations.
Second the Globalists made it illegal for decent citizens to impose the values and standards of Western civilization upon the Communist agitated African-American population. Expecting blacks to act civilized and then punishing them when they didn't suddenly became "racist" and as we all know being a racist is worse than being a murderer or rapist. In addition to this license to go wild LBJ's Great Society federally subsidized the breakdown of Africa-American family and social cohesion. The result was that all the decent people, the ones that worked to build and make the city what it were practically forced to flee for their lives. Detroit was gone.
The Globalists have destroyed Detroit more thoroughly than they could have with an atomic bomb. No matter how much money is poured in there decent people can't and won't live there. There are no jobs and its current denizens are of an alien, uncivilized, violent culture. The Globalists are doing to all of America what they did to Detroit.
Hiroshima after the bomb
Hiroshima today