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Charlie LeDuff golfs the length of Detroit - What 50 years of Democrat rule does to a city)
Fox Detroit ^ | Jul 05, 2012 | Dennis Kraniak

Posted on 07/05/2012 6:24:02 PM PDT by PanzerKardinal

FOX 2's Charlie LeDuff takes on an epic challenge of golfing his way from 8 Mile Road to Belle Isle... literally. It's a par 3,168, 18-mile, single hole course.

The 46-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning writer carries only four clubs in his bag while facing extraordinary hazards that took years to form. He strokes his way through grassy fields, abandoned houses and crumbling landmarks. The half-way houses on this course are real.

(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdetroit.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrat; detroit; golf
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It's really sad what has happened to this once great city.
1 posted on 07/05/2012 6:24:15 PM PDT by PanzerKardinal
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To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
Charlie LeDuff needs a national show. I'm no fan of cities but I do appreciate his love of his hometown.

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2 posted on 07/05/2012 6:29:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: PanzerKardinal

Saw that earlier in the day, glad you posted it.

Funny / sad / pathetic

Great Society was a huge success.


3 posted on 07/05/2012 6:30:38 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: PanzerKardinal

Half-way houses? Half-way to where?


4 posted on 07/05/2012 6:31:20 PM PDT by Cyber Ninja
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To: PanzerKardinal
Detroit is a wasteland

There is so much empty and abandoned space in Detroit that the entire city of Paris can fit inside.

Look at this satellite photo.

detroit

5 posted on 07/05/2012 6:31:48 PM PDT by PanzerKardinal (Some things are so idiotic only an intellectual would believe it.)
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To: PanzerKardinal

“It’s really sad what has happened to this once great city.”

It’s also sad that most Americans do not see the role of unchecked Democratic leadership and heavy unionization across many areas played in the city’s current state.


6 posted on 07/05/2012 6:33:17 PM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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To: PanzerKardinal

Democratic rule?

Windsor, ON has had a socialist government for 50 years. Portland, OR has been run by Dems forever, likewise Seattle.

Are you sure that the problem is Democrats?


7 posted on 07/05/2012 6:34:50 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Anna Wintour makes Teresa Heinz Kerry look like Dolly Parton.)
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To: PanzerKardinal

That’s madness. Funny and tragic at the same time. Kudos.


8 posted on 07/05/2012 6:40:34 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Jim Noble

You might have a point. You might even be about to say where you’re headed with that comment. In fact you might say something to the effect that, for example, Sweden has been ruled by socialists for many years and yet it doesn’t look anything at all like Detroit.


9 posted on 07/05/2012 6:41:12 PM PDT by Blado (When the government controls your healthcare it owns your body and you are a slave.)
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To: Jim Noble

Good question.


10 posted on 07/05/2012 6:46:13 PM PDT by Eaker (When somebody hands you your arse, don't give it back saying "This needs a little more tenderizing.")
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To: Jim Noble

Toss in one major industry run by the unions and you got yourself Detroit.


11 posted on 07/05/2012 6:47:09 PM PDT by cableguymn (For the first time in my life. I fear my country's government.)
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To: Jim Noble

Toss in one major industry run by the unions and you got yourself Detroit.


12 posted on 07/05/2012 6:49:26 PM PDT by cableguymn (For the first time in my life. I fear my country's government.)
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To: Jim Noble
Just because Democratic/socialist policies don't destroy every city doesn't mean they aren't capable of destroying some.

The problem is that as the industrial midwest lost some business, the proper course of action would have been to downsize government and government expenditures as the tax base weakened. Instead, because those Democrats were beholden to public employee unions and the poor, they treated their city payrolls like jobs programs, and the tax base as something to be milked rather than rebuilt. Over time, that chased out much of what remained of the tax base. It's "sooner or later you run out of other people's money" writ small.

Republican mayors would have been more willing to cut city employment and services, cut taxes, and encouraged business to stay.

Other issue was schools. Democrats politically invested in busing, integration, and using the schools for social change led to white flight, which also helped damage those cities.

Republicans are just as capable of poor management as Democrats, but at least they don't have the bias of elevated the welfare of public employee unions above and the poor above everyone else.

13 posted on 07/05/2012 6:50:47 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: PanzerKardinal

What amazes me is how there are libraries full of books, police stations full of files and mugshots, medical offices full of supplies and equipment all of it abandoned like you are looking at a scene in the Omega Man or some Zombie Appocalypse.


14 posted on 07/05/2012 6:55:18 PM PDT by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

The state would like to take control of Belle Isle and the locals are throwing a tantrum about it. I’m not sure I want the state to take control but the city simply can’t afford upkeep.


15 posted on 07/05/2012 6:55:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: PanzerKardinal

Its called “Detroitification” ...the physical manifestation of the ultimate in Leftard thinking and behavior.


16 posted on 07/05/2012 7:08:40 PM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: cableguymn

Toss in a City Council like this and you got yourself a Detroit!

http://www.detroitmi.gov/CityCouncil/tabid/2509/Default.aspx


17 posted on 07/05/2012 7:11:50 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: PanzerKardinal; SeekAndFind
A great post by Freeper 'SeekAndFind' from a few years ago includes some photos comparing Detroit to Hiroshima, then-and-now.

Hiroshima vs Detroit -- 64 years later

18 posted on 07/05/2012 7:11:50 PM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: PanzerKardinal

I plead guilty to being ignorant as to who this McDuff fellow is. Am I missing out on something good?


19 posted on 07/05/2012 7:15:05 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes. (Josef Stalin))
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To: certrtwngnut

Charlie LeDuff hammers the Conyers clan all the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_t6x3h8vLI


20 posted on 07/05/2012 7:18:49 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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