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An area the size of San Francisco is lying unused or vacant in Detroit
Sounds like a perfect environment for savages.
The word also applies pretty well to some of Detroit's politicians, so it works on multiple levels.
Prefect. LOL!!
It lies vacant and has been trashed by the animals that think they somehow have a right to institute Sharia law and their Muslim faith on everyone else. Detroit is a dump. That’s what happens when you let unions and lefties take over and run the place
Fine with me if all these blue cities seceded and formed the United City States of Antiamerica.
If it was only on an island we could use it as is for the next Snake Plisken movie.
Send them kudzu.
70,000 abandoned structures and they demolished 226 this year. It will only take another 309 years to get the job done. Around 2418 everything should be good.
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It’s clear to me that Obama’s goal is to turn this once great nation into one big giant Dee-troit!
And stealing everything he could get his hands on. Young would have made Boss Tweed blush.
So Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe learned how to destroy cities and countries from Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
Last winter in Detroit.
Maybe the lots could be homesteaded by urban pioneers. Or leased to people who want to grow crops or something. Of course, the powers that be would have to decide that they want enterprising self-starters living among them. Never mind.
Relocate the people in the neighborhoods and declare the unused neighborhoods in a certain mile radius (that will now be without schools) a “sex offender friendly zone” and there will be an influx of people willing to relocate and purchase (and repair) the homes. Also there will be businesses who see a large influx of residents and will reopen stores in that area (sex offenders have to eat and buy gas too). You will have the stigma, but if there is a large population, you can’t really ‘hide’ in it either. As is it, you don’t know who you are dining next to, but odds are you would be pretty sure in that ‘zone’.
I know people of Detroit don’t want a mass influx of sex offenders, but they have to go somewhere and this is a way to keep a closer monitor on them as well as fix the ‘what do we do with this property’ issue. Also bringing in revenue to the city.
Just a thought.
Its more than just a loss of population there that is the problem.
Pittsburgh has also lost half its population during the same period, and isn’t in nearly as bad a shape.
What a great city it was. Growing up there in the fifties and sixties I remember a sprawling, wealthy, huge conglomerate of a city. Hudson’s...downtown, the Olympia where we watched the Red Wings...Briggs, later called Tiger Stadium...baseball and football.
It all began to end in July, 1967 when the decision was made at the highest levels of city and state government to not protect property during the riot...excuse me, civil insurrection.
George Romney and Jerry Cavanaugh allowed the city to burn...over forty people died anyway...and tens of thousands began to move out. Heck...Sterling Heights, er...I mean Sterling Whites was just farm land until then.
By the seventies when Coleman Young became mayor...he was a black racist...it was game over. Political pay to play became the order of the day, and that never ended. Corruption remains at incredible levels...not that the justice department is much interested.
Those left now live behind bars over their windows and doors. Nine years ago the Detroit Police told me to move my elderly mother out of the city before she got hurt.
I did. She’s safe now...but misses her old neighborhood...not that it’s there anymore.
When I go back and drive through what’s left, only in daylight, I cry. I mean...I actually weep. It’s sickening.
Fifty years of Democrat leadership.