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| Can Detroit Return To Its Former Glory? |
| 2013-03-25 |
[NPR.ORG] A puff piece that tries not to dwell on the fact that the city's been systematically looted for years. The blow off:Williams acknowledges Detroit's unique problems, but is confident that this is the right step for the city. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #20 and the furry beaver is a rare creature. No.No.Mustn't go there. Must control myself. Meanwhile in other news Brazilian Bikini Waxes Make Crab Lice Endangered Species. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-03-25 22:45 |
| #19 It would make a fine trading post with our Canadian friends. Back in the day, you could make a good living running whiskey and guns to the Indians. Nowadays, the Indians have their own gambling dens, you can buy guns at Walmart and the furry beaver is a rare creature. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-03-25 21:26 |
| #18 Sure. It would make a fine trading post with our Canadian friends. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-03-25 18:55 |
| #17 The only thing Detroit has going for it is that they are the first major city to go belly up. The best chance for a bailout from the Feds is when the fed still has borrowing and printing capability ( and a Muslim socialist Marxist in the whitehouse). |
| Posted by: Airandee 2013-03-25 17:01 |
| #16 Mayor Young's comments about the "mugging" of Detroit is a canonical example of the mindset of a Democrat Pol in a city. What was lost? Taxes, taxes, taxes, taxes and money damn it that whitey and business put in their pockets and stole. Not a word about people fleeing with their own property (aka money) in the face of rioting mobs; nope that all belonged to HIM as mayor and they stole it. BTW Nice riff to Karakorum. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-03-25 15:10 |
| #15 Pictures of Detroit remind me of pictures of late-stage terminal cancer victims. Not pretty. In this case the cancer is Liberalism. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-03-25 13:29 |
| #14 Detroit will provide a wilderness playground for the people of Windsor. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2013-03-25 13:22 |
| #13 Can Detroit Return To Its Former Glory? HAHAHA,(Gasp) HAHAHA. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-03-25 13:13 |
| #12 Settlements become villages, villages become towns, towns become cities for a reason/purpose. When that reason or purpose disappears or moves on to other locations, the cities ceases to serve a functional need [other than to those who live off its existence which sometimes is referred to as parasites]. The West is littered with ghost towns that no one really thought worth 'reviving' or returning to their 'former glory'. Being or having been a Great City is not a basis for existence. Behold Karakorum once capital of the largest empire in human history. Sic transit gloria |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-03-25 11:54 |
| #11 I remember a couple of years ago someone did a photo essay of pictures of Berlin in 1945 contrasted with pictures of Detroit today. The resemblence was haunting. The difference was Detroit did it to itself. At this point Detroit will have to be razed to the ground and rebuilt. Preferably with new people. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2013-03-25 11:42 |
| #10 Economic conditions in Detroit generally trended sideways or downward over the period of Mayor Young's political tenure, with the unemployment rate trending from approximately 9% in 1971 to approximately 11% in 1993, when Young retired. However, most economic metrics ( Young himself explained the impact of the [1967] riots in his autobiography: "The heaviest casualty, however, was the city. Detroit's losses went a hell of a lot deeper than the immediate toll of lives and buildings. The riot put Detroit on the fast track to economic desolation, mugging the city and making off with incalculable value in jobs, earnings taxes, corporate taxes, retail dollars, sales taxes, mortgages, interest, property taxes, development dollars, investment dollars, tourism dollars, and plain damn money. The money was carried out in the pockets of the businesses and the white people who fled as fast as they could. The white exodus from Detroit had been prodigiously steady prior to the riot, totally twenty-two thousand in 1966, but afterwards it was frantic. In 1967, with less than half the year remaining after the summer explosion—the outward population migration reached sixty-seven thousand. In 1968 the figure hit eighty-thousand, followed by forty-six thousand in 1969. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-03-25 11:31 |
| #9 Don't forget Bodie. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2013-03-25 10:44 |
| #8 No. It had a good run but it's time has now passed. I think the area, at best, will end up like many areas of the rust belt. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2013-03-25 10:29 |
| #7 Detroit will have to await its turn right after Troy, Carthage, Roman Republic and the Neanderthal Man. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2013-03-25 09:35 |
| #6 Beso, would YOU eat anything grown in that toxic waste dump? Detroit has to be the largest super fund site ever. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-03-25 08:45 |
| #5 Farmland ? ”History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely, once they have exhausted all other alternatives." (Abba Eban) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-25 08:09 |
| #4 No. The Usual Suspects have already made it clear that they will let Detroit turn into a true wasteland rather than give up one bit of their power and money. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2013-03-25 07:45 |
| #3 Racial tensions also led to "white flight" from the city. Well then, the problem appears to have solved itself, or can today's Detroit be blamed on.... the "residual effects of racism and apartheid" ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-25 02:42 |
| #2 No. Well, not while the democrats, BLACKS and unions are in charge... which will be forever so... No.
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| Posted by: Mikey Hunt 2013-03-25 00:47 |
| #1 No. Well, not while the democrats and unions are in charge... which will be forever so... No. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2013-03-25 00:36 |
