Nobody Remembers: Detroit
Nobody Remembers
Obama promised, he would NOT let Detroit go bankrupt.
But today, it happened. The black President had no stimulus to bring back the pensions, the police, the lights, the sanity, OR the jobs. Can we say it’s because he’s a racist? He prefers the rich because he bailed out Wall Street? After all, Detroit ‘s population is 82% black, and Obama hasn’t done a thing for them.
Everybody knows what happened to Detroit: Democratic unions broke the manufacturing industry, and Democratic politicians drained the bank.
It’s not too hard to figure out. That’s what happens when democrats run the show.
From Wikipedia;
The Detroit metropolitan region currently holds roughly one-half of the state’s population.[4][ In 1903 Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. Ford’s manufacturing—and those of automotive pioneers William C. Durant, the Dodge brothers, Packard, and Walter Chrysler—reinforced Detroit’s status as the world’s automotive capital; it also served to encourage truck manufacturers such as Rapid and Grabowsky.[22]
With the factories came high-profile labor unions such as the American Federation of Labor & the United Auto Workers which initiated strikes & other tactics in support of such things as the 8-hour day/40-hour work week, healthcare benefits, pensions, increased wages & improved working conditions. The labor activism during those years increased influence of union leaders in the city such as Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters and Walter Reuther of the autoworkers.
More than half of the owners of Detroit’s 305,000 properties failed to pay their 2011 tax bills, exacerbating the city’s financial crisis. According to the Detroit News, 47 percent of the city’s taxable parcels are delinquent on their 2011 tax bills, resulting in about $246 million in taxes and fees going uncollected, nearly half of which was due to Detroit. The rest of the money would have been earmarked for Wayne County, Detroit Public Schools, and the library system. The review also found 77 blocks in Detroit had only one owner who paid taxes in 2011.
The resulting elevated unemployment was compounded by white flight and middle-class flight to the suburbs (and in some cases to other states), and the city was left with a reduced tax base, depressed property values, abandoned buildings, abandoned neighborhoods, high crime rates, and a pronounced demographic imbalance. This crisis almost resulted in the state of Michigan taking over administrative control of the city.[54] The state governor declared a financial emergency in March 2013, appointing an emergency manager. On July 18, 2013, Detroit filed for bankruptcy, which will have to be approved by a Judge.[55]
So, Nobody Wonders if the Blacks will EVER understand that the welfare “plantation” is not going to last forever and ever.
In the meantime, we all wonder…what city is next? Or…should I say, what country?
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
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Detroit, a city running on myths. Ford hasn’t built a car in Detroit proper since 1910 when it moved to Highland Park to escape high city taxes. The vast majority of car building is done outside Detroit. Heck, when I worked in the automotive industry in the ’60s, I worked in Hamtramck and not Detroit. Even then, most car building was done outside Detroit. Motown? Humbug.
Racism killed Detroit. Successful Detroit blacks were often held back, the historical violence against blacks is shocking (think 1863 and 1943 and other incidents over the years), the historical redlining of neighborhoods left an impression on the city that can be seen today. Think of the long, six-foot high, foot thick concrete wall built in the north end of the city to contain blacks. Disgusting.
Did unions demand too much? Yes. Were politicians corrupt? Certainly. But, in the end, the reason for Detroit’s decline since 1950 (with roots going back even more decades) is racism. Detroit is the most segregated large city on the continent. White flight accompanied by the movement of jobs from the city was all too often driven by racism and that racism killed The Paris of the Midwest. (By the way, I have personal knowledge of Detroit. My dad worked at J.L. Hudson’s downtown; My sister worked in advertising in the city; I went to school in Detroit — Wayne State and art school.)
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Thanks for your opinions rockinldn!…St. Louis is much the same way. We aren’t too far behind the same fate.
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St. Louis was such a beautiful city just a few decades ago. It was famous for the locally made brick used in many of its turn of the century buildings, as I recall. Inner cities are in trouble in many places around the world but the massive abandonment seen in U.S. cities is not nearly as common.
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Detritus.
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