"Rare as precious coral.."
Posted on 10/30/2009 1:49:22 PM PDT by AreaMan
Excellent. Thanks for posting up that website.
I’m from that neck of the woods. It’s tragic.
One can bulldoze a house and load it in a dumpster for a few thousand dollars. It's the red tape, disposal and payoff to city officials for the job that makes it more expensive. I suppose the trees growing through some of them doesn't help either.
My parents moved to Wisconsin in 1970 from the city. I remember the national guard jeeps mounted with machine guns roaring down Grand River Ave headed towards downtown during the riots of 67. After that my folks decided it was time to pack up and move the family.
Always will be sad that the city of my youth has disintegrated completely during my lifetime.
I wsa going to post this picture. Detroit has become a waste land. Detroit is a metaphor to what Buttcrack Odumba is doing to America.
This sounds like an excellent opportunity to reclaim much of the city for future development. If abandoned buildings are torn down, some inexpensive plants can be put in their place that will draw contaminants from the soil. The plants can then be harvested and the contaminants safely disposed.
Importantly, the city puts priority on clearing lands with a lot of abandoned buildings so that larger plots of land are available for future development.
Since Detroit is pretty much landlocked, this sets up a future of “inbuilding”, and a resulting economic boom when the time comes. The more of the city that is cleared, the bigger the revitalization will eventually be.
"Rare as precious coral.."
This is exactly what would happen if total state sovereignty were to be enforced by the states.
The moochers and criminals would stay in the “blue” states while all the productive people moved to better/freer states.
And, this is exactly why the collectivist “blues” insist on implementing their policies at the federal level - so we can’t escape and vote with our feet.
A good dose of “he who will not work, nor shall he eat”
would fix a lot of the problems in Detroit, and in America as a whole.
Bet you could buy entire neighborhoods for next to nothing if one had the means to live without needing a job.
in 10,000 years, someone is going to dig up Detroit and wonder why people suddenly abandoned a perfectly good city.
The Zoo is Horrible! AT least it was 20 years ago!
Maybe it could be turned into a big nature/hunting preserve...Ted Nugent could run it.
He’s not gonna like 2010.
LMAO.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Thank you for that link.
My family moved to Detroit in The summer of 1981. My father worked in the train station. It was a beautiful building then, even though it was half abandoned, upper floors were empty.
We went up there once late out night and it was a very creepy place to be. You could see forever and the windows were all knocked out even back then.
Even back then the Communist's Ruling had begun to leave their mark.
Blue Diamond is making a killing with $10,000 matches!
I could offer to tear down (torch) those abondoned houses for only $5,000 saving them a bundle.
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