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We Have to Step In and Save Detroit
New York Times ^ | July 19, 2013 | STEVEN RATTNER

Posted on 07/20/2013 12:46:04 PM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: reaganaut1

There is no saving Detroit. Aboveground nuclear tests are about the only logical thing left to do.


81 posted on 07/20/2013 3:01:03 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: reaganaut1

“apart from voting in elections, the 700,000 remaining residents of the Motor City are no more responsible for Detroit’s problems”...

So, then who elected these left wing financially irresponsible idiots over then last 40 years or so?


82 posted on 07/20/2013 3:17:57 PM PDT by BillT (If you can not stand behind our military, you might as well stand in front of them!)
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To: EricT.

bfl


83 posted on 07/20/2013 3:29:24 PM PDT by RetAF_fedUP (McLame and Gramnasty need to go!)
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To: AmusedBystander

I’d bet it’s already in that 600pg+ bill which no one’s even read.


84 posted on 07/20/2013 3:34:14 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: reaganaut1

Location Location Location. Those Michigan winters can be tough. What new industry is opening in the Detroit area to draw people there? It’s not a 1900 world anymore. People, materials, products and ideas all can move much easier and cheaper.


85 posted on 07/20/2013 3:34:39 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: American in Israel

Bulldoze it all to the ground and return it to farmland.


86 posted on 07/20/2013 3:51:18 PM PDT by LtKerst
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To: reaganaut1

What would it take to “save” Detroit; A couple of hundred D11s? Now that would help the economy.


87 posted on 07/20/2013 3:59:59 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: reaganaut1

No, why should I bail out unionestas?

My life is already diminished because of policies of the current leftist administration. Why should I prop up the lemmings? Why should I support the evil that wants to enslave my children?


88 posted on 07/20/2013 4:11:13 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: reaganaut1

Need we say more?

89 posted on 07/20/2013 4:20:47 PM PDT by jimjohn
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To: reaganaut1

Bail out Detroit?

So retired Detroit city workers can continue pulling down higher pensions than the taxpayers who would be stuck with the bill?

The current median income of US taxpayers who would pay the taxes used to bail out Detroit is somewhere around $30,000 per year.


90 posted on 07/20/2013 4:25:15 PM PDT by Iron Munro (They Old. That's Old School People. We In A New School, Our Generation)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Step in a save Detroit. NEVER! The unions got them where they are and the unions can now figure out how to bail them out on their own. The little town I live in needs financial support but do you see anyone from the gubmint wanting to step in and help. (It’ll never happen and it likewise should not happen in Detroit or any other slum hole city like it).

Its not America’s job to save Detroit.


91 posted on 07/20/2013 4:29:07 PM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for SMALLER , HONEST government)
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To: reaganaut1

I don’t believe that Detroit can be saved. It’s been rotting from the inside out for decades.


92 posted on 07/20/2013 4:30:41 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: reaganaut1

Nope. Detroit should look more like Chernobyl than it does already.


93 posted on 07/20/2013 4:40:26 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: muir_redwoods

Bump!


94 posted on 07/20/2013 4:40:30 PM PDT by True Grit
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To: reaganaut1

It’s the New York Times, what do you expect? If poor minorities and working class people (basically, Detroit) ever understood the cause-and-effect that the policies of the NY Times readership (the gay bathhouse and guilty-white-liberal dinner party crowd) pushes, they’d be storming Fire Island and Marthas Vineyard with torches.


95 posted on 07/20/2013 4:40:40 PM PDT by WeatherGuy
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But apart from voting in elections, the 700,000 remaining residents of the Motor City are no more responsible for Detroit’s problems than were the victims of Hurricane Sandy for theirs,

The jokes just write themselves ...
96 posted on 07/20/2013 4:42:26 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: reaganaut1

Let them rot in Detroit, all of them, everyone who chose to live there and invest there.


97 posted on 07/20/2013 4:53:05 PM PDT by gotribe (Vladimir Putin is MY President)
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To: reaganaut1

What’s left to “save”? Nothing, really. Homes won’t sell for $1; public services don’t work; police take an hour to respond to 911 calls; they have the lowest of all possible underclasses, completely illiterate. Why would anybody step in to save that? The only good reason I can think of to save the place is it would keep the remaining half-million ferals where they are and prevent them from moving to another city.


98 posted on 07/20/2013 4:55:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: reaganaut1

Let’s just let Detroit rot as an object lesson to the rest of the country. Elections have consequences. Decisions have consequences. Let the residents of Detroit live with their consequences.


99 posted on 07/20/2013 5:03:54 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Here’s an idea. Every rich elitist liberal should be required to adopt an inner city family AND a laid off city worker from Detroit. They’re all into social engineering. Let them be hands on about it.


100 posted on 07/20/2013 5:14:25 PM PDT by randita
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