The Demise of Detroit!

[JLM]

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Detroit, today has just over 1/3 of the population it had in 1950. What is the cause of this? Are cities like St. Louis, Cleveland and Baltimore suffering the same fate. What's happening down there?

 

[petros]

Heavy industry (autos and heavy equipemnt) is bad for the environment so it's spread out all over Nor Am instead of centalized in Detroit.

 

[BaalsTears]

Democrats have run Detroit for half a century. Detroit is a monument to American leftism.

 

[petros]

Democrats have run Detroit for half a century. Detroit is a monument to American leftism.

Everyone left.

 

[#juan]

Democrats have run Detroit for half a century. Detroit is a monument to American leftism.

How about all those years of building crap. The auto manufacturers have been bailed out several times but they are still building
cars nobody wants. I don't know how many jobs have sent off shore but the industry is not growing like it is in Asia.

 

[EagleSmack]

Detroit – What Could Have Been | Graphics | News | National Post

Detroit, today has just over 1/3 of the population it had in 1950. What is the cause of this? Are cities like St. Louis, Cleveland and Baltimore suffering the same fate. What's happening down there?

What's happening? Your answer is right there in your link as well as what one of the CanCon members stated.

 

[coldstream]

Free Trade.. and now the relentless war on unions that has states competing with each other to rescind all legal protections for organized labour... has left Detroit vulnerable to the plundering of jobs by Maquilladoras around the world.. and other states who have no qualms about bringing these Free Trade Zones into the U.S..

Michigan has become the latest to feed its unions to the wolves of Wall Street and the Global Investment hell hounds .. but it won't help. It's a race to the bottom.. just like the original critics of Free Trade warned it would be. Detroit is just a harbinger of what awaits the rest of the U.S. (and Canadian) economy.

 

[BaalsTears]

The people in Detroit have little education, virtually no skills, and no prospects whatsoever. Things are going to get much worse for them. They will be reduced to the level of beasts. It can't be stopped now.

 

[petros]

The people in Detroit have little education, virtually no skills, and no prospects whatsoever. Things are going to get much worse for them. They will be reduced to the level of beasts. It can't be stopped now.

I visited Detroit when it was still thriving. There were already LOTS of beasts.

 

[JLM]

The people in Detroit have little education, virtually no skills, and no prospects whatsoever. Things are going to get much worse for them. They will be reduced to the level of beasts. It can't be stopped now.

All 700,000 of them ya think?

 

[petros]

Wild amounts of uemployment and poverty in Detroit. Anyone with a skill or education got the hell out years ago and went to Texas.

 

[EagleSmack]

The remainder have stayed to be fed by the government or work for the government feeding.

 

[petros]

Govt Motors

 

[BaalsTears]

All 700,000 of them ya think?

To count all the sentient beings in Detroit would take no more than the fingers on both hands.

 

[JLM]

To count all the sentient beings in Detroit would take no more than the fingers on both hands.

Ya think? LOL

 

[Spade]

If you've ever driven through Detroit, the Third World looks like paradise!

By the way, the beavers are moving back.

 

[JLM]

If you've ever driven through Detroit, the Third World looks like paradise!

By the way, the beavers are moving back.

So you are saying I haven't missed much!

 

[Spade]

No, you could go on a civilizing mission. Although, that didn't work on the rest of America.

 

[gopher]

Detroit – What Could Have Been | Graphics | News | National Post

Detroit, today has just over 1/3 of the population it had in 1950. What is the cause of this? Are cities like St. Louis, Cleveland and Baltimore suffering the same fate. What's happening down there?

Loos of jobs due to large exports and transfer of other auto jobs to Ohio and Kentucky.

 

[damngrumpy]

The old free trade thing played a major part. Jobs shipped to Asia and the dismantling
of the industrial complex is one issue. The jobs dried up and the housing complexes
that were supposed to house people became the ghetto's of the day. The city drifted
into decay with people getting housing money they could not afford to pay back and the
real estate collapse finished the place off.
The Republicans are have turned America into a have not country with their trade deals
and breaks for business. Cheap taxes eh? People don't have to pay for infrastructure,
until the bridge threatens to fall. The idea that taxes were bad was a Reagan idea. It is
not the taxes that are bad its what they do with the money. It should also be noted it is
not the entire fault of the Republicans the Democrats share the blame here as they are
gutless. If taxes have to go up to pay for the things required they have to raise them,
period