The Death and Decay of Detroit, As Seen From The Streets

Zero Hedge ^ | June 9, 2014 | Tyler Durden

[House Atreides]

Detroit, has been bankrupt for nearly a year. But out of mind doesn't mean out of sight, especially now that Google has launched its street view Time Machine, which provides for 7 years worth of street images, showing the time shift of the tumultuous period period starting in 2007. One blogger who decided to take this time lapse data and apply it to the city of Detroit is GooBing Detroit who, as the following time-lapse photos demonstrate, has captured Detoit's unprecedented slow-motion collapse into death and decay in what is the closest we have to "real time."

Perhaps what is most stunning about the following series of photos is not the ultimate fate of the bankrupt city, but how quickly a once vibrant metropolis has succumbed to blight and sheer desperation.

Hopefully not coming to a street near you.

[kvanbrunt2]

worms and spice to you. wow my neighborhood was saved in the 60’s and 70’s by the local german, ukranian, spanish that bought up the abandoned houses and keep them from deteriorating. they all made a lot of money. some houses were sold for $1. At one point every house around mine was vacant. I couldn’t afford to buy them but now everything here is getting overbuilt. some kind of bubble bursting is next.

[Graewoulf]

The Democrat Bus and the Labor Union Bus have made Detroit what it is today - - - let THEM pay for it!

[gigster]

I grew up on the East Side of Detroit, near City Airport.
So, I’ve seen this my whole life, unfortunately.
It was a great city, at one time.

[GeronL]

Why only 7 years?? I guess street view didn’t exist before that.

[GeronL]

Yep, we are quickly becoming a third world country, but its okay to many as long as free stuff and legal pot and crap is there.

[Bogey78O]

Benjamin Franklin. American Oracle.

“For my own part, I am not so well satisfied of the goodness of this thing. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavors to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty. Repeal that law, and you will soon see a change in their manners.”

Everyone should read the whole part. To shorten this is an injustice. It precisely describes what happens when you make a welfare state overly generous.

[Bogey78O]

Oops. Forgot the link.

http://www.founding.com/founders_library/pageID.2146/default.asp

It’s a shame the modern educational system has made a student unable to read a more complex English than that found today. Old Ben lays it out so complete, that had he existed today, he’d be called a “Teatard” or a Koch shill by our media and dismissed as a fool.

[4Liberty]

Thank you Central Planners!!

[staytrue]

I hate to say this but there is a good chance that much like the Carly Simon song,

THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

[minnesota_bound]

Note the time frame from 2009 onward. I thought the messiah was here to save everyone.

[rdcbn]

Urban renewal- Obama style.

Chernobyl looks better

http://harshparmar.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/chernobyl.jpg

[Jeff Chandler]

Elmore Leonard (The Dickens of Detroit)

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2013

[GATOR NAVY]

I’m speechless. The only thing that could make this worse would be if the the first photo was from 50 years ago.

[itssme]

Read about some good news recently about a neighborhood in Chicago where citizens who apparently are not Chicago socialist/democrats,as so many are, got together and dispensed some good old fashioned justice to the motorcycle gangs who were running rampant down their streets and endangering the kids who played in the neighborhood. The neighborhood is made up of old time Polish, Italian, Lithuanians, and Chinese who have revitalized the neighborhood and opened new businesses, as well as illegal aliens & anarchists & commie/socialists/marxists who have moved into the neighborhood & opened up artist studios & leftist coffee houses & a “Unity Center” as it's called,where the left meets to help the “less fortunate” like the illegals, while recruiting others to join the Communist Party. The neighbors asked the gang not to speed down their streets full throttle, during the day and night. Gangs refused, and the police couldn't answer the call for help in sufficient time to nail these guys. So, the guys from the neighborhood, led by a Chinese merchant, got some baseball bats and took it upon themselves to straighten the bad boys out, and “encourage” them to go elsewhere. Well, it worked, and now the neighbors of this once great neighborhood are coming together and are going to work on the thugs & gangbangers who are invading the neighborhood..crime is up, theft & batteries are up, the business area of the neighborhood is unsafe & a ghost town after 6PM. I hope & pray after they clean up the garbage in their neighborhood, that they will hit Chicago's City Hall and beat the hell out of the commies/socialists/marxists/muzzie collaborators
& that includes the midget rahm emanuel, who is hated by the cops & most citizens of Chicago, except the blacks/illegals who are faithful to barack obozo, the socialist/democratic party and are also on the dole.

Good job, Bridgeport neighborhood..keep it up. Don't allow the left to make another Detroit out of Chicago.

[kearnyirish2]

“Within a few years it will be bustling with business and people. Where ever they go, the business climate gets crazy”.

In a very Third World way; it is cash businesses, and the work is kept in the family. They benefit themselves; they wouldn’t be paying the city’s bills...

[Organic Panic]

“Now it’s our turn.” - Coleman Young

Fanatical loyalty to melanin uber alles, racialist vengence, and liberalism killed the city. Coleman young is smiling and Obama is inspired.

[corlorde]

here is a film that is pretty good, which is of the same

http://www.detropiathefilm.com/

[Gritty]

It appears human nature hasn't changed much from Ben Franklin's time.

Welfare is a way to destruction and dissolution to those who make it a way of life and eventually to those who give it thinking it will "solve" the poverty of others. In the end, it destroys both.

[roadcat]

In a very Third World way; it is cash businesses, and the work is kept in the family.

Yes and no. My wife is Chinese-American. Grew up poor in a family with six kids. Her Chinese dad, despite limited english served in the U.S. Army during WWII (born here but raised in China), then brought his wife from China after the war. Struggled as a cook, saved money and opened a grocery store. Yes, the work was kept in the family. All the kids worked from an early age at the store. My wife tagged and stocked goods, made signs, and ran the cash register, all while under the age of 12.

But they generated income and paid taxes from the receipts. Her dad was able to buy property and generated more income and taxes from apartment buildings, again with the kids helping run things. The kids learned to work at an early age and carried it into adulthood, prospering, paying lots of taxes, unlike some other types of people in Detroit. It's a culture thing, not a third world thing.

[overdog2]

The 10+ pages of debate at the original link is worth perusing.