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A Drunk Trying to Make the Next Lamp Post [Hey, Jim Wallis, look at Detroit]
Blog and Mablog ^ | 7/19/13 | Douglas Wilson

Posted on 07/20/2013 8:56:28 AM PDT by rhema

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1 posted on 07/20/2013 8:56:28 AM PDT by rhema
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Just think. Chicago is $97 billion in debt and just got a credit downgrade.


2 posted on 07/20/2013 8:58:16 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

Chicago, another cesspool of corruption. They’re next. Should we start a pool?


3 posted on 07/20/2013 9:02:48 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (The IRS--a softer Gestapo)
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You must not Dishonor the Chimp. Err.. Chief.

What did you think I meant? Dubya?


4 posted on 07/20/2013 9:03:05 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
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To: Former Proud Canadian

A CessPool?


5 posted on 07/20/2013 9:03:48 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
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To: rhema

BEAUTIFUL!


6 posted on 07/20/2013 9:07:23 AM PDT by immadashell
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To: Former Proud Canadian

These cities large and small have some astounding debt. People tell me that those cities have a tax base to support it but if you’re $100 billion in debt, your tax base isn’t doing a very good job of supporting it.

Our cities are trillions of dollars in debt. There is probably a trillion dollars in municipal debt in the northeast alone.


7 posted on 07/20/2013 9:11:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: rhema

Detroit voters got what they wanted. Now their taxes can rise to pay for it.

Leave us taxpayers outside Detroit out of the problem.


8 posted on 07/20/2013 9:11:44 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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Well, that’ll be a good trick or a very long stagger....I’d bet all of the copper wire and probably a lot of the light posts have been stolen and sold out for scrap...hahahahahahaha


9 posted on 07/20/2013 9:15:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: cripplecreek

But their Mayors, their staff, their “friends” bask in the constant shower of Money, Money and MO Money. They don’t give a whit’s damn about the city’s future, never did. Get some bodyguards, a limo and driver, a big ole fat paycheck and all you can steal under the table, put your a$$ in a nice mansion the city unknowingly bought for you, stash some cash and what the hell do you care.

America’s URBAN cities since circa the 1970s....


10 posted on 07/20/2013 9:18:10 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: rhema

I thought the song “Detroit City” or “I Wanna Go Home” was about returning to the south.

Aptly applies here.


11 posted on 07/20/2013 9:34:34 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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but a line has formed and we are trying to make out who is next. Is it California? Illinois? New York?

I'm betting on Illinois, I read recently that we are #1 in unfunded obligations, even ahead of looney California.

You go, Illinois!

12 posted on 07/20/2013 9:40:21 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: cripplecreek
Our cities are trillions of dollars in debt. There is probably a trillion dollars in municipal debt in the northeast alone.

The last I heard, Suze Orman was saying, "buy muni bonds". Of course I quit watching her about a year ago.

Only fair sized cities issue muni bonds. How many "fair sized cities" are not run by democrats?

13 posted on 07/20/2013 9:43:42 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: rhema

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/judge-orders-detroit-bankruptcy-be-withdrawn-to-protect-retired-municipal-pensions/

This guy summarizes Detroit well. And OBama will bailout Detroit.


14 posted on 07/20/2013 9:51:41 AM PDT by whitedog57
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Geez, will somebody please start identifying the common denominator:

Detroit goes bankrupt - Democrats
Chicago going bankrupt - Democrats
Illinois going bankrupt - Democrats
California going bankrupt - Democrats
Social Security going bankrupt - Democrats
The US 16 trillion in debt - okay, let’s see if anybody can figure it out


15 posted on 07/20/2013 9:53:09 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: rhema
Time to take the medicine, truth is a bitter pill!

It past time to cut off the "bar tab" for the "Takers".

Regards,
GtG

16 posted on 07/20/2013 9:53:42 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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Detroit is a very important example. In 1960 it had the highest per capita income of any city in the USA. If the Democrats can destroy Detroit, they can and will destroy every city with less income.

Socialism does run out of money, every time.


17 posted on 07/20/2013 9:56:33 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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Detroit voters got what they wanted. Now their taxes can rise to pay for it.

Hard to tax an EBT card.

18 posted on 07/20/2013 9:57:28 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: rhema

We could use Detroit as a live fire range for Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) and an impact area for MI Army National Guard artillery and Air National Guard close air support training. Otherwise, just nuke Detroit and turn it into a national shrine for the nut case Environmentalists.


19 posted on 07/20/2013 10:28:11 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: whitedog57

of course Obie will bailout DET-roit and then cities and states across America will demand the same and he can INVEST trillions and trillions of deflating dollars into vote buying. Democrats will be hailed as heroes for the 2016 election - our last before the Great Fall


20 posted on 07/20/2013 10:40:21 AM PDT by GeronL
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