It is just heart breaking oh how magnificent Detroit and its suburbs were in its day!
After the 1968 riots the city and free trade deals to underminding the auto industry it is like a skeleton of what it once was.
What do you expect in a place so cold that the only way to stay alive nine months out of the year is to work yourself silly or burn the family Bible in the hearth and suddenly all the jobs are done by machines or simply disappear altogether.
free trade has squat to do with the demise of Detroit....
If you think it's "free trade", go to a bank borrow some money and open up a "business" downtown Detroit in something that will take advantage of "free trade". Let's see how many weeks it takes for you to pack up and leave.
High taxes, no rule of law, class warfare, criminal protection, race protection rackets, union thuggery, and on and on....
If Detroit fell off the face of the earth we'd be better off and could start your beloved auto makers company in the non union south or west.
WRONG! It was managerial INCOMPETANCE that sunk the Big Three. Maybe if they didn’t build rust buckets with poor fuel efficiency in the 1960s and 70s, to say nothing of the cheap interiors of the current vehicles, Americans would buy more of their cars.