Detroit loses a staggering 25% of its population in a decade

CNN ^ | March 23, 2011 | CNN Wire Staff

[ransacked]

Detroit should be held high up on a pedestal as a prime example of what results from infestation of the welfare class.

[VanDeKoik]

GR is down 4% in population.

We have a kindler, gentler form of the government that runs Detroit.

And the schools stink on ice.

[utherdoul]

No corporation in its right mind would try to rebuild detroit. Just let it rot and good riddance.

[texas booster]

In all, the city lost more than 237,000 residents, including 185,000 blacks and about 41,000 whites. The Hispanic population ticked up by 1,500.

I wonder how many of those 41,000 whites were old folks who were never going leave their homes and just passed away?

[org.whodat]

LOL, damn!!!!

[grumpygresh]

Let’s put up a couple of nuke plants in Mo-town. You won’t get any valid NIMBY arguments.

[fwdude]

There was an on-line video several months back that showcased the sheer lunacy that brought down Detroit. I wish I could find it.

[NativeSon]

Work with Japan to relocate to Detroit, the people and business on contaminated (Japanese) lands and those that fear the contamination.

They have to pay for the land and to build but give breaks on taxes and ordinances while they get it together.

Also, let them set up their own security.

[meyer]

Cleveland, Ohio is suffering a similar fate. The 2010 census puts Cleveland under 400,000, down 17% from the 2000 census. Not so good for a city that had 914,000 residents in 1950.

And they’re not all fleeing to the suburbs either - that bus has left the station as well. The metropolitan area population decreased as well to around 2,882,000, from its high in 1970 of 3,098,000.

The cause for Cleveland’s decline is obvious to those living there - excessive liberalism, graft, and corruption in the city’s government as well as those of some of the surrounding suburbs and the county itself have chased away the earners, leaving a progressively increasing core of freeloaders.

[nerdwithagun]

Stephen Crowder’s “Detroit in ruis”?

Great video on Detroit even if it isn’t the one you are looking for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw&feature=channel_video_title

I subscribe to him.

[Paine in the Neck]

Don't worry. Obama and GM (Gov't Moochers) will save the city...

[fwdude]

That’s it! Thanks!!!

[Jim from C-Town]

don't forge excessive taxation. the taxes are high in the entire state. Since 1970 Ohio has gone from the 5th lowest taxed state to the 6th highest taxed state.

During the same time Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, and Cincinnati have lost significant amounts of people and jobs. Ohio has lost 600,000 jobs in 10 yrs and 400,000 in 4 yrs. Only Columbus has grown, along with the massive growth in state government and the annexation of it's suburbs making the city 280SQ miles.

[newzjunkey]

You think having a string of union-controlled democrat mayors and city councils since the 1950’s might have something to do with this?

Happens wherever it's tried.

[Mr. Wright]

Surely, it must be because of all those damned Republicans running the place; that along with G. W. Bush are obviously the reason the city is in such bad shape. I am waiting for an NBC, ABC, or CBS Special Report on what the Republicans have done to Detroit!!

[MichiganCheese]

GR is down but Kent County is up. The rats are fleeing the city to the burbs.

[pogo101]

I guess that’s what Eminem meant by Lose Yourself.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Detroit is the perfect example of Leftist urban renewal! Let the utopia begin!

[thethirddegree]

Not to worry. Soon it will be filled with Muslims emigrating from Dearborn.

[Cen-Tejas]

..........37 posters in front of me as I type and not one, including mine, outright states the true reason for the demise of Detroit. Reason: “We’re all scared to!” A story in my youth may tell it without setting the world on fire. The story is about a huge black man named “Thomas”. That’s his real name or what we (a bunch of 16 year old white boys) called him. I can’t remember his first name. Anyway, rumor had it that Thomas was so strong that after unbolting a motor block he could just reach in and pick it up, didn’t need a motor lift. Despite this, he was a gentle and tolerant man. All us 16 year old white boys brought our cars over to Thomas to fix because he was good and cheap but he would also just let us hang around. And, when we had just ten bucks and needed a carburaetor part or something and it was Friday afternoon and we had a date.............well, Thomas would “carry” us till we got the money and fix it anyway. And that exact nut, bolt or part to “get you going”.....as Thomas so often put it.

And,Thomas always seemed to be able to find it “somewhere”. We all just absolutely loved Thomas! Some of us practically grew up....”at Thomas’s house”.

But, I digress, Thomas also had a large family and they were poor but not dirt poor. And, I remember that on Sunday we didn’t go over and bother Thomas because he had his 7 sons and 2 daughter’s all dressed up in Sunday best and headed for his car to go to church. And, on Sunday afternoon, he didn’t work in his garage. Those 9 kids ALL had good grades! They all said “yes sir” to Thomas and “yes maam” to “Momma” and even to us 16 year old boys. I lost track of Thomas in later years but heard from an old buddy that lived close to him on into his adulthood who reported to me that every one of Thomas and Momma’s kids grew up to be good, responsible people. No doubt in my mind!

The problem with Detroit and the central core cause of it’s demise over recent decades was that there simply were no Thomas’s, or damn few! If you want just one word for Detroit’s failure, in my opinion, it would be “fathers”.......or lack thereof.