Posted on 02/09/2011 10:10:39 AM PST by Leisler
"Dozens of American cities throughout the industrial Great Lakes states and Midwest have lost half of their populations over the course of one generation -- places like Cleveland, Youngstown, Detroit, Warren, Buffalo and Flint. This is the first time that so many cities have lost half of their populations in such a short amount of time since the Plague struck Europe in 1348........."
(Excerpt) Read more at manufacturingnews.com ...
If parkland is the intended use, then concrete and basements present no problem; collapse the house into the basement, dump on some broken sidewalk concrete and asphalt, cover with topsoil, then seed. There will be settling, contamination, etc. (which is already there); it’s been done in other places, and nobody’s hurt in the end. The eyesore goes away, and an area that certainly has plenty of other industrial problems in its soil returns to nature.
I’ve heard Detroit referred to as the first American city with bona fide “ruins” (along the lines of the Acropolis). Whatever they do with it has to be better than leaving humans in it at this point. Like other areas where this has been done, you can take the most historical and/or structurally sound buildings and use them as a visitors center, museum, park ranger headquarters, etc.; the most contaminated areas become parking lots with 3 feet of pavement between the car tires and the soil.
I know this stuff; I’m from New Jersey! : )
What do you think of your new governor? Sometimes he sounds pretty good, but you would know better seeing that you live there...:O)
I remember that farce of a debate. Kemp showed himself to be a jackass and have had no respect for him since...he was comtemptable...
He is incredible; we’ve been raped by these public employee unions for decades, and nobody stood up to them (or even better, publicly exposed their salaries and benefits - present AND future - so that even the dopiest knucklehead could understand that we had created an upper middle class of fairly unproductive people paid for by taxpayers at the end of their ropes). He is trying to stop taxpayers (individual and corporate) from fleeing this state as they have been for years, and doesn’t seem all that concerned about his popularity (which even pollsters admit is doing well anyway; they overestimated the support our privileged public servants would receive). I see posters complain he is not conservative enough; for NJ he is “far right”, so I’ll take it. He is blunt because we are turning into a third world sh!thole here, and without his cuts (actually started by his Dem predecessor) we would have nothing left here but illegal aliens, the permanent underclass (including many who could be cast on “Jersey Shore”), and SEVERAL Detroits.
I hope he’s around long enough for at least another term; however, I don’t know if his message would play nationally. Unless you come from an area where each taxpaying family supports a teacher + one emergency person (police or fire) + one additional municipal employee (public works, or office staff), as well as 2 local public school students and 4 urban students, his message doesn’t make much sense. I know many of the “red” states have been much more frugal than we have (which is why our jobs and our taxpayers move to them); I don’t think they could fully appreciate the incredible turnaround (both in financial terms and in terms of the public sentiment) that this man has almost single-handedly wrought. He is like a giant one-man TEA Party...
PS I like the way he talks to the MSM and the unions...
He knows both will automatically fight his re-election anyway; there is no fair shake with either of those Dem constituencies.
Warren Michigan borders Detroit on it’s Northern border. It’s the other side of 8 mile. It’s a working class union area that used to have 180,000 and now is down to 133,000.
At a paltry 67 miles from Youngstown, and with the same ethnic nonsense, Pittsburgh more than qualifies
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