Michigan legislative action thread
No and what if it does?
Forced integration is what led to the decline of many great cities.
I suppose this idiot would prefer if everyone lived in Soviet-style apartments.
Sure, blame the refugees from the unnatural disaster.
Name one city in the U.S. that did not experience the supposed, “white flight”? All of the causes to the problems he attributes to Detroit can be attributed to all U.S. cities. Detroit is just an extreme case and a large one at that.
People who say one man can’t make a difference need to study what Kwame Kilpatrick meant to Detroit.
Chad Selweski is a died in the wool liberal. Always has been. He forgets, very conveniently, that the words “hit 8 Mile” echoed through the community since the early 70’s when Coleman declared war. He was directing it towards rogue cops but the community saw it far beyond that.
There are still a few hold outs in the city that cannot afford to move out. They live with bars on their windows and doors and are afraid to leave their homes. They are targets for break ins. Their children left the scene and moved to “Roseville” long ago.
Selweski trying to blame this on the white folks who “fled before they were dead” is another of his idiotic ideas. He should be the first to move back down there. Lots of cheap property available I’m told.
Macomb County is fast becoming indistinguishable from Detroit. When we go back to Michigan to visit family in Fraser, Roseville, and St. Clair Shores, we can’t stay in nearby hotels any longer — have to stay over on the West side of town, in Troy. School choice has ruined the local school districts, and people are moving further out to ensure their children go to good schools. Why does the writer blame the people who moved out of Detroit, rather than blaming the politicians who made Detroit uninhabitable? Any businessman would be a fool to stay in Detroit and pay those taxes — Troy wouldn’t exist as it is today, but for the stupid Detroit politicians.
The writer was correct about one thing, the high union wages made it possible for the autoworkers to buy houses in the nice suburbs. But in his need to blame whitey he didn’t aknowledge the workers were both white and black. The well paid blacks didn’t stick around in Detroit either. Its ironic that the unions helped destroy Detroit.
Another “blame Whitey”. Too bad the writer doesn’t accept any responsibility or blame anyone else.
Moving your family is a hard thing to do. It is one of the most stressful things people go through. It is a big decision to move your family. It’s not something people do easily. It had to be pretty bad for people to pack up and leave Detroit. It’s a foolish argument to say that Americans who are white found it easy to leave their homes in Detroit. It was so bad that they felt that there was no other alternative.
Obviously this writer never meant my Uncle. He helped build homes in Detroit with Habitat for Humanity. He was one of those white flighters. He moved out of Detroit because the companies moved out of Detroit. His job left Detroit. Why did these companies leave ? Crime was rampant. My Uncle gave up on the Habitat for Humanity Homes when he realized it was not worth the effort.
This is absolutely true. The whites that built and maintained the 1st World civilization in Detroit were forced out. The blacks that had moved enmass to Detroit to take advantage of the high functioning civilization that was already there did not have the wherewithal to generate the financial or social capital necessary to sustain that particular civilization. It quickly transformed into the 3rd World society that they could create. Without the transfer of the wealth created by productive people outside the city by the State and Federal leviathans the city would have crumbled back into wilderness a long time ago.
"What's the matter?" Bob asked.
"I've been transferred to Detroit - there are crazy people there. They've got lots of shootings, gangs, race riots, drugs, poor public schools, and the highest crime rate in the nation."
Bob replied, "I've lived in Detroit all my life. It's not as bad as the media says. Find a nice home, go to work, mind your own business, and enroll your kids in a nice private school. It's as safe a place as anywhere in the world."
The guy relaxed and stopped shaking and said, "Oh, thank you. I've been worried to death. But if you live there and say it's OK, I'll take your word for it. What do you do for a living?"
"I'm a tail gunner on a Budweiser truck."
Unions, with forced membership, democratic-only leadership, union backed schools, high wages and benefits for public officials: these ALL lead to the waste of Detroit and have put many other large blue cities in the same risk category. People flee these places because: 1) in order to keep salaries and bennies so good, property taxes go through the roof, 2) politically entrenched officials become corrupt—it’s the nature of the beast—so to keep crime out of your neighborhood, one must be willing to pay bribes or live in a gated community with security on the ground, 3) politically-connected manufacturing and business get tax breaks, and “rewards” while those struggling to survive or unwilling to pay the bribes suffer, etc.
There are a lot of reasons for the exodus from Detroit, but let’s face it-—had there been good management and honest politicians it would have survived and become stronger, even with some economic downturns. Most cities face these from time to time. It’s just how things work. But Detroit had the worst of everything. No way to survive and yet everyone wants to blame somebody else...sound familiar? This runs in the “family”. Democrat family, that is. Nothing is EVER their fault!
Detroit would just be a neighborhood in Houston. Houston is about 5 times the size of Detroit. Would you like to compare economies and living conditions in the two?
Detroit's problem is corruption and liberal policies, not size and the fact that people wouldn't put up with the crap and left.
To the liberal utopians, it is everyone’s fault but their own policies. Heck, if they could just eliminate their political opponents, then utopia would be realized! There was another regime back in the 30’s over in EU that had the same answer to an economic collapse.
Be very vigilente everyone, over the next few dominos that fall you will continue to be blamed. Blame blame blame and then you will have the mob whipped up into a frenzy to eliminate those evil capitalist rich people! Rich will be continually re-defined as those that have “more than me!”
The vast majority of the people who have fled to the suburbs, especially north of 16 mile rd., were all auto company employees, both skilled trades and production whose incomes allowed them to purchase houses and properties not available in the city of Detroit.
Sterling Heights was the first haven for the new upper class wage earners from the auto industry and as that grew, they spread northword and the houses grew.
Macomb Twp., Utica and Shelby Twp. became the new destination of choice for the auto workers who had the incomes to build bigger houses in what was once wooded areas. Those areas are now filled with subdivisions.
The bottom line is, they left Detroit for the same reason anyone else does, a bigger house in a neighborhood that they can afford.....
Apparently that is true, though it looks like San Francisco counts water area as well as land to make itself look bigger than it is.
Every older American city went through "White flight" in the postwar period, but none ended up as badly off as Detroit (no city with its own metropolitan hinterland, that is).
Chicago came out better than Detroit, perhaps because Daley policies that liberals objected to prevented the blockbusting and the White flight from going too far or too fast.
Did anyone get this....
This was a backhanded swipe @ Reagan, it is all his fault, or his brand of Racism
After all it was the Macomb Country Democrats, i.e. the "Reagan Democrats" he is pointing at...
Think about it...