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Detroit street lights may shrink by half
Examiner ^ | 5/24/2012 | Rachel Dillin

Posted on 05/24/2012 7:37:59 PM PDT by bkopto

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To: bkopto

Wonder when they’ll all be off.


41 posted on 05/24/2012 9:51:36 PM PDT by Catmom
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To: cherry

The big deal, at least to me, is you have city officials making decisions on who gets city services and who does not.

With black youths roaming the streets at night, a dark street is an open invitation to crime. I don’t have this problem either where I live, but I have seen Detroit neighborhoods at night and it is scary as hell even with streetlights working.


42 posted on 05/24/2012 9:53:30 PM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the White House)
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To: caww

The woman ‘stash’ interview was played on talk radio quite a few times and at one point it was on youtube also. I haven’t heard it in a long time tho.


43 posted on 05/24/2012 10:10:42 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired high up in the mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

ginp


44 posted on 05/24/2012 10:43:28 PM PDT by razorback-bert (I'm in shape. Round is a shape isn't it?)
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To: Gabrial

Detroit streets are perfectly safe at night as long as you go out with a group of friends who are also out for a leisurely late night stroll...

armed to hilt with firearms galore, bullet-resistant vests and several thousand rounds of ammunition.


45 posted on 05/24/2012 11:14:16 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: The Duke

Yep!


46 posted on 05/24/2012 11:44:18 PM PDT by caww
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To: bkopto

typical liberal thinking: you can’t afford things as they are, sooooo....
borrow 160mil in order to save 10 mil/year (16 year payback) and claim you’re saving money.
if the folks of detroit are dumb enough to swallow this, then they get what they deserve


47 posted on 05/25/2012 4:11:19 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Not all Liberal run cities have the ‘Detroilet’ problem, for more see Paul Kersey’s new book, “Escape From Detroit: The Collapse of America’s Black Metropolis”.


48 posted on 05/25/2012 4:17:35 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: iopscusa

“The last one to leave, turn out the lights.”

The city will become even more dangerous to travel through as the “people of night” crawl out from hiding to prey on the unsuspecting .


49 posted on 05/25/2012 5:40:01 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Wow! Thank you Jack.


50 posted on 05/25/2012 5:54:19 AM PDT by houeto (FReepathon 2Q! https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

When I was a kid growing up in Michigan, Detroit was listed as the 4th largest city in the US.


51 posted on 05/25/2012 6:01:27 AM PDT by cookcounty ("We're all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young." -J Goldberg)
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To: bkopto

"Escape from New York"

"Escape From Detroit"

Coming soon!

Gosh, it is almost surreal. "Art imitates Life" or "Life imitates Art", I can never remember which is true...

52 posted on 05/25/2012 6:26:07 AM PDT by China Clipper ( Animals? Sure I like animals. See? There they are next to the potatoes!)
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To: Army Air Corps

Bless them. And bunnies are mythical creatures.


53 posted on 05/25/2012 7:02:18 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: bkopto

“Turn out the lights...the party’s over.”


54 posted on 05/25/2012 7:06:39 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: cookcounty

Detroit is now #18 on the list just behind Charlotte, NC according to this Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population


55 posted on 05/25/2012 7:10:07 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I’d rather walk in a Detroit Blackout than many areas of Chicago during the day.

Chicago is a regular old killing zone and wait till the federal dollars are cut off.


56 posted on 05/25/2012 7:30:54 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: rockinqsranch; TEXOKIE

“You have to identify those neighborhoods where you want to concentrate your population,” said Chris Brown, Detroit’s chief operating officer. “We’re not going to light distressed areas like we light other areas.”

“Bing in 2010 began an independent project called Detroit Works to sort ideas on how to reconfigure the city for residences, businesses, green space and even agriculture, a plan due in August.”

Detroit Works project is absolutely a sustainable development initiative.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/half-of-detroit-s-streetlights-may-go-out-as-city-shrinks.html


57 posted on 05/25/2012 8:30:21 AM PDT by wheresmyusa (FTUN)
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To: rockinqsranch
Sad isn't it. If I was a homeowner, I would request to unincorporated from Detroit.
58 posted on 05/25/2012 8:53:25 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: wheresmyusa; TEXOKIE

Thanks for the link, but that’s NOT the article that I had read, and need to find. Definitely a keeper, but not the article I am looking for.

The article I am looking for specifically outlined the lighting cutbacks as a means to herd communities of residences into specified urban areas to the liking of master planners, opposed to the necessity to do so generated by cost to a bankrupt city. It wasn’t science fiction either. It was a real plan by real Leftists of the Leftist wannabe ruling class using the Detroit plan as the basis of their own National plan.

Good point to ping TEXOKIE. I had forgotten the necessity to do so. It does fall into the Agenda 21 category of societal manipulation.


59 posted on 05/25/2012 8:55:57 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: bkopto
Detroit, Newark, St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, Gary, Birmingham, Oakland...

No country on earth, outside of full on war (with two exceptions I can think of), has seen this level of decay in major cities. A unique force is at work here.
60 posted on 05/25/2012 9:12:39 AM PDT by Jay Santos CP ("Idiocracy"... It's no longer just a movie.)
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