The Downfall of Detroit (Mark Steyn)

National Review Online ^ | July 19, 2013 | Mark Steyn

[neverdem]

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[berdie]

It’s amazing to me that a large city in this country has come to this.

Not just the bankruptcy...but (from what I have read) the utter devastation.

Of course there were towns in the past that became “ghost towns”...but this has to be one of the most exaggerated cases in our history.

[healy61]

Maybe it is time to have a law that public employees can only be so employed for 10 years. No exceptions. And no retirement.

[floridavoter2]

Why beat a dead horse? Let Detroit rot. I sure as hell don’t want to bail them out. They got what they voted for.

[Wiggins]

Maybe it is time to have a law that public employees can only be so employed for 10 years. No exceptions. And no retirement.

All that has to be done is to do away with the public retirement system. Public employees should contribute to their own retirement like that of the private sector.

[political1]

Odd. It took close to 62 years for the Soviet Union to finally collapse. How long is a pyramid scheme's shelf life?

[PghBaldy]

Haunting photos of the ruins of Detroit:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jan/02/photography-detroit#/?picture=370173054&index=0

[Wiggins]

Not to forget the privatization of as many public services as possible.

[Catsrus]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jan/02/photography-detroit#/?picture=370173054&index=0

Copy and paste is your friend.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Why beat a dead horse? Let Detroit rot.

It's like a hard-core alcoholic, or a glue-sniffer. There's really not much else you can do.

[JennysCool]

A perfect Steyn column! Thanks for the post!

[GeronL]

bump

here is to an astounding leftist success story

[berdie]

Thanks...what a sad state of affairs.

[boatbums]

All the white firefighters were forced out and moved to other states like Florida, my retired FF hubby was telling me. He worked with many of them.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"Public employees should be allowed to contribute to their own retirement like that of the private sector.

Fixed it. Many public employees would prefer not to contribute to the government plans, if they were not mandatory.

[itsahoot]

Of course there were towns in the past that became “ghost towns”...but this has to be one of the most exaggerated cases in our history.

Ever wonder how it is we find all those cities buried underneath other long lost cities?

[Artie]

A couple of weeks ago, I read an essay by a teacher in an all black high school. He posed a question to his students “ What happens if all the white people disappear?” The answer he got was “We’re (Black people) screwed!”. Detroit is what happens on a much grander scale, as most of the whites started leaving in August 1967.

[Bon mots]

To any American time-transported from the mid 20th century, the city’s implosion would be literally incredible: Were he to compare photographs of today’s Hiroshima with today’s Detroit, he would assume Japan won the Second World War after nuking Michigan.

[JLS]

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