Shrinking Detroit

**Louis VI the Fat** · 12-18-2010, 17:11

Silly Gruaniad. They are too PC to say just why Detroit is sinking into poverty and why nobody wants to move in there.

Originally Posted by Hax

Ach, just sell it back to the French for a hundred dollars. They can deal with that kinda stuff!

No thanks.

Lille, Marseille and Paris outside the periphery is quite enough. One can only afford so many third world metropoles.

Detroit is the great scare of Europe. America can abandon Detroit. And it can abandon New Orleans. But one can not abandon Paris.
The solution seems to be to physically concentrate wealth and privilege within parts of the European cities, and raise the drawbridge. I predict the return of the city wall.

**Devastatin Dave** · 12-18-2010, 21:39

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Silly Gruaniad. They are too PC to say just why Detroit is sinking into poverty and why nobody wants to move in there.

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I'm not... blacks and democrats make a deadly mix for any city's infrastructure and treasury. Cold hard truth.

**rory_20_uk** · 12-18-2010, 21:48

They're not alone. California is merely rich enough to avoid this fate for the time being by the thought of the state going belly up being too terrible for anyone to contemplate it.

It's not the race, it's any group that feels they're better off with handouts than trying. Traditionally Democrats give more handouts so they'll be voted in.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 12-18-2010, 22:06

In all seriousness I don't think many people, even homeless people who could get a free house, would want to move to Detroit. The reason the city wants to demolish homes is because it can't pay for services - water, fire and police to largely unpopulated areas. Large amounts of homeless people shipped in, who would need services but wouldn't contribute much in the way of taxes, would just make things worse. Also, vacant homes serve as shelter for criminal activity.

Doesn't help that the last mayor was extremely corrupt.

CR

**Devastatin Dave** · 12-18-2010, 22:23

Detroit is a loss cause, much like most homeless people in the US. Although Horetore's idea is noble and has good intentions, it would only make the situation worse. Our country's homeless are homeless mainly by their own bad decisions and choices they made in their lives. Cities like Detroit, East St Louis, New Orleans, Newark, Oakland, etc, are in the condition they are in due to bad choices in the polling booths. You can only tax the successful so much before they leave and you lose that revenue.

**Ironside** · 12-19-2010, 12:33

Originally Posted by rory_20_uk

They're not alone. California is merely rich enough to avoid this fate for the time being by the thought of the state going belly up being too terrible for anyone to contemplate it.

It's not the race, it's any group that feels they're better off with handouts than trying. Traditionally Democrats give more handouts so they'll be voted in.

Isn't the California issue that they've set up a system that easily stops budget cuts and tax rises? Thus making a balanced budget impossible when its gone unbalanced?

**PanzerJaeger** · 12-18-2010, 22:36

Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave

I'm not... blacks and democrats make a deadly mix for any city's infrastructure and treasury. Cold hard truth.

Very true. Memphis is only slightly better off.

Beautiful cities across America have been ravaged by black leadership. It is a vicious cycle. As the black leadership starts to show poor judgment, those with the resources, mostly whites, escape, leaving only poor working class blacks who habitually vote in more black leadership.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 12-19-2010, 01:30

Black mayors aren't any better or worse than white ones.

The bad black mayors are (generally) the ones who get elected by race baiting; making the election about who's going to be on the side of black people.

It's hard to feel sorry for the people of Detroit, though, since they kept on voting in idiots.

CR