The article doesn’t mention the one thing that really destroyed Detroit. I’m guessing that you know what that is.
Envy is an ugly thing. Funny that the big money liberals are being attacked by the gimme free stuff liberals. I guess that’s what happens when you nurture a culture that most sane people escape from as soon as possible. I just hope they don’t relocate to red states and turn them into a toilet with their stupid ideas
More than anything else, the race riots of 1943 and 1967 killed Detroit. After 1967, the whites simply left in droves, and the city died.
If Silicon Valley is going to go the way of Detroit, it will be the assaults on the personal safety of the Golden Programers that will kill it.
Get out the double barrel and fire a couple of blasts over their heads!
keynesians are going to be surprised at how bad shape many cities are in once they can no longer be propped up on promises. Even a few FReepers buy into the fantasy that all is well as long as there are still taxpayers to keep paying.
Detroit once had taxpayers too.
Microsoft buses in Seattle have become objects of contempt. I wonder if that’s where they got the idea?
I had heard that Detroit hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1957. And a lot of the Democrats have been unusually corrupt and incompetent, I think. Tales of the Kilpatrick administration alone are quite shocking.
San Francisco is a fortress city. Parts of it are beautiful, although almost no one can afford to live in those parts. But every time I go there I am staggered by the number of people living in sleeping bags on the street - one small block can easily have 15-20. New York and LA are like that, although maybe slightly less so. Wherever the left rules, opportunity for those most in need of it dies, and the much lamented “inequality” becomes most manifest.
Interesting numbers on Cali as a whole.
I assumed Cali was wealthy because they can afford to pay their state employees so much and have so many retirees making over 100 grand a year.
Liberals claim to stand for something that only they can see because they are more intelligent than everyone else.
The reverse is true. Liberals stand for nothing and they’re too stupid to see that what they are doing will destroy them.
Leftists run liberals. Leftists are sadistic parasites. They not only want to take everything, they want to enjoy the destruction and suffering as they do so. And they’ve chosen the most naive and stupid to be their tools.
The Left brings death - that’s it, that’s all they’ve got. That’s why they claim Every Good Thing, because to see them as they are is to see a grinning skull.
bfl
I don’t get this.
The median income where I live(Boston suburb) is $110,000.00 per household. In San Jose it’s $81,000.00.
I always that these West Coast areas were much higher.
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Stockton is not far from Silicon Valley.
Man, what a bunch of losers. One or two posters are trying to explain supply and demand, while the rest are downright communist or Marxist in their replies.
It is a open lesson in the delusion of Marxist socialism. You can tell that they'd be happy to have armed thugs enforce wealth confiscation and if anyone objects, then they'd also be happy to pull the trigger. Either that or they're just so stupid as to think that if the government passes a law demanding that others give up all their wealth to be distributed, that none of them will go along with such thievery without a fight. One of the too few who were trying to reason with them said as much, and the others said he was crazy to say that anyone would dare oppose a government law confiscating their wealth, or that they would work less hard, or simply drop out...
On thing I do know, though, is that if any of these Che T-shirt wearers ever make a little cash, they'll be spitting mad if someone wants to take it and give to others not so fortunate...