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Economy
America's Suicidal Cities
2013-02-02
[NATIONALREVIEW] Two page opinion piece using Detroit as the model for all cities in decline, which it isn't. The valid point the author does make is that the cities' regimes keep acting as though the money was still flowing like it did about the time they started being run by Dem machine politicians. Detroit is well on its way to winking out of existence -- but it's the city council that's to blame. But Chicago's got a different set of problems even though they stem from a similar source. Washington D.C.'s problem with the Marion ("The Bitch Set Me Up!") Barry administration made the place a national laughingstock, but the voters gave him another term as soon as he was out of jail and he's still on the city council. New Orleans' problems during Katrina stemmed a lot more from its corrupt and incompetent city administration than from FEMA or G.W.Bush.
Posted by:Fred

#5  See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUM > WHITES TO BECOME MINROITY IN USA IN 30 YEARS | CENSUS: WHITES TO BECOME A MINORITY IN THE UNITED STATES BY 2043 - BUSINESS INSIDER, according to current projections.

Illegal Mexicans, Blacks, Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis + Arabs to be the majority soon enuff.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-02-02 22:11  

#4  ... a bold plan to revitalize Belle Isle by having the city sell it for $1 billion to investors who “believe in individual freedom, liberty, and free markets.” The investors would be given freedom to set up an “enterprise zone,” which would have self-governing commonwealth status with the U.S. much as Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands have. The new Belle Isle would have a top rate of 10 percent on income taxes, and no taxes on capital gains, dividends, investments, or estates.

Here's an idea: why don't we make the whole damn country an "enterpreise zone" with business-friendly policies like those described above. Be nice if these folks would stop rent-seeking long enough to at least try to explain the validity of these policies to the low information crowd.
Posted by: AzCat   2013-02-02 12:30  

#3  Corrupt political machines, unions, and crime can only survive as long as the host [business and industry] continues to breath and thrive. When the host dies, the parasites migrate to government for their sustenance or find a new host elsewhere.

When the government host finally dies, well, then you have a very real problem.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-02-02 06:32  

#2  Again, THE MORE BAD OR WORSE THINGS ARE, THE BETTER FOR ANTI-US LEFTISTS-GLOBALISTS + ANTI-US OWG + NAU, where differentiated regional Nation-States will be "forced" to depend on one another just for simple survival

SNAFU > nearly every day as per the MSM-Net Americans = Amerikans see the Fed surrender steadily + in piecemeal to the future OWG + OWG NAU 2015. CALL ME WEIRD BUT I DON'T SEE MEXICO, CANADA, + GREENLAND, ETC. SURRENDERING AS FAST OR AS DUBIOUS AS WASHINGTON = BAMMER + ADMIN ARE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-02-02 00:51  

#1  I used to live in Detroit and have many friends who still do. This is a tragedy.

And is the leading example for where the US is headed as we follow the same policies with the same sort of corrupt government.

Look well, America. You'll be just like this in 5-10 years, if not sooner.

Orion
Posted by: Orion   2013-02-02 00:16  

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