BeaverFever BeaverFever:
Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
I sincerely hope it works but until then it'll get filed in the "I'll believe it when I see it" category.
If I was to hazard a guess it'd be that most of these people will move into Detroit and end up moving out again when they discover that 90% of it's areas are unsafe, unpopulated by whites and basically single house ghetto's.
It's great to get a house for a couple of thousand dollars but when you discover that the City is Bankrupt and unlikely to ever get back into the black without the US and State Government putting alot more money into that Democratic Party Model City failure called Detroit they'll change their mind in a hurry.
Once these people move in taxes are going to start to rise quickly so the city can commence fixing what's left of their 1970's era infrastructure which was left to rot because of corrupt politicians and the fact that their tax base was unable to pay for those repairs because there was no industry or jobs during the past 30 years.
The only way to fix Detroit is to give the city a "do over" extinguish their debts and allow them to start again from scratch with no Federal Gov't interference or political manoeuvering to win votes or try and make it a success even after all these years of failure. Then they could borrow the money they need to make repairs to their infrastructure without raising taxes to outrageously high rates on the infinitesimally small tax base they have and hope to keep. Unfortunately people want things and when they see that they have money coming in they're gonna demand the city spend it on things they want and not infrastructure which is going to lead to problems.
Are Shep, Stratos and Martin going to pile on you now?
For what?
Stating that Detroit is an epic failure of the bleeding hearts in the Democratic Party and LBJ's model city program. Although in fairness I guess you could call it a limited success because they did succeed in fostering the new generation of Black leaders they wanted like Kwame Kilpatrick and Coleman young, men who saw the great potential of a federal Gov't funded welfare state and then went about ensuring it came to fruition.
Like I said the only chance Detroit has is to start over again with a forgiving of their debt and no more outside political machinations to "ensure" black leaders win elections. This city went from a population of 1,849,568 with 83.58 percentage of white people in 1950 to just 713,777 with 10.61 percent white people in 2010.
Over a million people don't normally leave their homes unless they're displaced by things like war, famine or disease so, what would explain the exodus of whites, affluent blacks and every other colour from Detroit other than the fact the model city program turned it into one giant ghetto that people couldn't wait to escape from, industry included?
I have ties to Detroit through my grandfather who was originally from there so, the destruction of this once vibrant and great city by self absorbed social engineers playing God pisses me off. Will it ever regain it's position as one of America's premier cities. Not going the way it is now. Mayor Dave Bing is trying but he's hamstrung by 6 decades of bad ideas, corruption and meddling by outside political forces.