[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. ...since there's no other step available...
"[The] sense that the city has been victimized over years and years -- some of it may be true, some may not be," he says, "[but] ... we have to avoid re-litigating the past and look toward the future." Always a victim. It's gotta be someone else's fault..
And if there's one thing Detroiters are good at, it's hanging tough and looking to a better future. They're also pretty good at electing rapacious politicians and returning them to office over and over again.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/25/2013 00:00 ||
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No.
Well, not while the democrats and unions are in charge... which will be forever so...
Well, not while the democrats, BLACKS and unions are in charge... which will be forever so...
No.
Let's not go there, shall we? Blaming all people of a race for the malfeasance of a few doesn't bring clarity to the problem, and it's not the 'civil discourse' for which Rantburg is famous.
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 ||
03/25/2013 7:45 Comments ||
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Farmland ?
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely, once they have exhausted all other alternatives." (Abba Eban)
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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 (unemployment, median income rates, and city gross domestic product) initially dropped sharply during economic recessions, reaching their "low points" in the late 1980s and/or early 1990s, with the unemployment rate in particular peaking at approximately 20% in 1982.
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 explosionthe outward population migration reached sixty-seven thousand. In 1968 the figure hit eighty-thousand, followed by forty-six thousand in 1969.
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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 ||
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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
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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.
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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).
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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.
Michael Weiss explains the latest chess moves in Cyprus, including how the bank failures there complicate the life of a convalescing (or putrefying) Pencilneck.
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03/25/2013 07:50 ||
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The Senate, late Friday, gave important symbolic support for the construction of the Keystone Pipeline, delivering crude oil from Canada to US refineries. The vote on the amendment to the Senate budget draft won support from all Pubs and, importantly, 17 Dems. While the amendment is non-binding and generally meaningless, the 62 votes in support are enough to overcome any future filibuster on the issue. No indication or timeline for approval by the Crown. Meaningless vote to provide cover for vulnerable Dems. Champ and the EPA will find a way to kill it without leaving fingerprints on the body...
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An "all of the above solution" using a pipeline [absolutely the least expensive, safest and cleanest method of moving any product]. "All of the above"; you knew it was a lie when the words spewed from his sorry lips.
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They could revitalize Detroit by routing the pipelines from the Canadian tar sands and the Dakota tar sands to Detroit.
With all of the abandoned shipping facilities in Detroit, they could turn Detroit into a major distribution hub for domestic energy. Thus saving a Democratic paradise from further decay and get us the energy we need to reduce gas prices and get the economy going.
Of course the high gas prices are a scam to generate more tax revenues for the states and the feds.
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
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Meaningless vote to provide cover for vulnerable Dems.
To which their coming opponents should play this repeatedly during the election. Yeah, pay the royalties. It'll be worth it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
