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2008-11-05 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-11-05 13:37|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 On some deep unconscious level, he assumes that material wealth is something akin to a natural phenomenon for which no group of humans can take credit.

This article gives the bugger entirely too much credit. My take on it is he suffers from accute cognitive dissonance. If one feels he is destined to create an economic renaissance for a sector of the population, while at the same being keenly aware that that same sector is terminally tied to tribalism, crime, and societal failure... well then, you have a genuine problem.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-05 14:25|| 2008-11-05 14:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Liberals have the ability to equate what feels right with what must work despite numerous examples to the contrary. They just didn't implement it right in those other places and times. That's it.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-11-05 18:19|| 2008-11-05 18:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Detroit's never been a paradise. It used to be in better shape economically for a lot of the reasons mentioned in the article. We have been doing everything to shoot ourselves in the foot for a long time. Our society tends to favor attorneys and financial planners over engineers. Consequently innovation suffers. We don't manufacture things as we used to. Instead we have transformed our economy to a service-based economy. Even much of that has been sent overseas. We have shipped too much of our wealth elsewhere, manufacturing, jobs, etc. Henry Ford recognized that he had to pay workers enough money so they could buy the cars coming off the assembly lines.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-11-05 19:21|| 2008-11-05 19:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Look at any American city that's been run by a single party for a couple of decades - you'll find it's a basket case.

Posted by DMFD 2008-11-05 22:46|| 2008-11-05 22:46|| Front Page Top

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