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2013-03-12 Government

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2013-03-12 12:47|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 After 50 years of failed government promises in Detroit, the money has dried up, welfare has run out and the city is headed for fire sale.

LeDuff's memoir is devoid of any petty, partisan slant. It is not a book about competing political philosophies. He is too good for that

What's wrong with this picture. Hey LeDuff, did those 50 years of failed government happen in a vacuum? Government is the creature of "petty" partisan politics. Political Philosophy is what defines the rules and lays out the playing field.

Oh, that's right, you're too "good" to dabble in root causes, effects and remedies; it would "bore" you.

If politics and philosophy is bent in the service of personal power and riches then you eventually get the failure that is Detroit just as it was in the USSR and other places. Politics and philosophy caused this disaster and they are the only things that can rebuild it...........if people really want to.

Posted by Alanc 2013-03-12 13:16|| 2013-03-12 13:16|| Front Page Top

#2 More Robocop than Mad Max. Robocop had old detroit a failed cesspool bought out by a corporation so they could clean it up. First part has already happened, we just need an OCP.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-03-12 14:42|| 2013-03-12 14:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Mad Max had hope.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-03-12 16:05|| 2013-03-12 16:05|| Front Page Top

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