The Demise of Detroit!


JLM
#1
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?
 
petros
#2
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
+2
#3
Democrats have run Detroit for half a century. Detroit is a monument to American leftism.
 
petros
+3
#4
Quote: Originally Posted by BaalsTearsView Post

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

Everyone left.
 
#juan
+3
#5
Quote: Originally Posted by BaalsTearsView Post

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
+2
#6
Quote: Originally Posted by JLMView Post

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
+2 / -1
#7
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.
Last edited by coldstream; Feb 5th, 2013 at 02:32 PM..
 
BaalsTears
#8
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
+1
#9
Quote: Originally Posted by BaalsTearsView Post

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
#10
Quote: Originally Posted by BaalsTearsView Post

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
#11
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
+2
#12
The remainder have stayed to be fed by the government or work for the government feeding.
 
petros
+2
#13
Govt Motors
 
BaalsTears
#14
Quote: Originally Posted by JLMView Post

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
#15
Quote: Originally Posted by BaalsTearsView Post

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

Ya think? LOL
 
Spade
+2
#16
If you've ever driven through Detroit, the Third World looks like paradise!

By the way, the beavers are moving back.
 
JLM
#17
Quote: Originally Posted by SpadeView Post

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
+2
#18
No, you could go on a civilizing mission. Although, that didn't work on the rest of America.
 
gopher
#19
Quote: Originally Posted by JLMView Post

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
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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
 
petros
#21
Quote: Originally Posted by gopherView Post

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

as well as
Oklahoma, Tennessee and Mexico.
 
Kreskin
+4
#22
Not everything is a result of Democrats and Republicans. I suspect both parties have very little to do with the success or non-success of anything; A figment of most imaginations.

Look at Japan. Their population will decline for much longer than any of us will be alive. Probably similar causes. Diminishing industrial region with an aging population and low fertility rate. Electing a Rep or Dem will do virtually jack squat in changing the course of demographics.
 
Cliffy
+1
#23
Quote: Originally Posted by KreskinView Post

Not everything is a result of Democrats and Republicans. I suspect both parties have very little to do with the success or non-success of anything; A figment of most imaginations.

Look at Japan. Their population will decline for much longer than any of us will be alive. Probably similar causes. Diminishing industrial region with an aging population and low fertility rate. Electing a Rep or Dem will do virtually jack squat in changing the course of demographics.

But some people need a boogy man to blame for everything they are not willing to take responsibility for. The herd mentality is strong in politics. The herd always needs a leader. They can't think or act on their own. But as the Hopi say, "You are the one you have been waiting for." If you are going to be a sheeple, then you can expect to be a victim.
 
JLM
#24
Quote: Originally Posted by KreskinView Post

Not everything is a result of Democrats and Republicans. I suspect both parties have very little to do with the success or non-success of anything; A figment of most imaginations.

Look at Japan. Their population will decline for much longer than any of us will be alive. Probably similar causes. Diminishing industrial region with an aging population and low fertility rate. Electing a Rep or Dem will do virtually jack squat in changing the course of demographics.

Actually, you are right Kreskin, blaming politics or people's interpretation of politics is an easy step for the simple minded, I would say it has much more to do with economics.

Quote: Originally Posted by CliffyView Post

But some people need a boogy man to blame for everything they are not willing to take responsibility for. The herd mentality is strong in politics. The herd always needs a leader. They can't think or act on their own. But as the Hopi say, "You are the one you have been waiting for." If you are going to be a sheeple, then you can expect to be a victim.

Nice to start off the day reading two intelligent posts in a row! I suppose now that I've said that the likes of TBG will come out of the woodwork!-
 
Walter
#25
Quote: Originally Posted by petrosView Post

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.

What crap.
 
petros
#26
Yeah I know. Those environmentalists keep fvcking themselves and everyone else.
 
JLM
+1
#27
Quote: Originally Posted by petrosView Post

Yeah I know. Those environmentalists keep fvcking themselves and everyone else.

Yep, 99.9% through their own ignorance- they probably know what a tree looks like and what a fish looks like, but they don't know what "work" looks like or that it's necessary to achieve a life style.
 
petros
+2
#28
Back when I was still living in BC there was a "professional protester", every time I tried to watch the news there she was again beeking off about something with the stupidest of comments you could imagine.

If it wasn't Clayoquat it was paper cups, or toilet paper that was too soft or porridge that was too cold. Blah blah blah bla blah.

I know you've seen her. She looks just like this:



Hopeully by now she has choked on a piece of tofu.
Last edited by petros; Feb 6th, 2013 at 09:56 AM..
 
JLM
+1
#29
Quote: Originally Posted by petrosView Post

Back when I was still living in BC there was a "professional protester", every time I tried to watch the news there she was again beeking off about something with the stupidest of comments you could imagine.
If it wasn't Clayoquat it was paper cups, or toilet paper that was too soft or porridge that was too cold. Blah blah blah bla blah.
I know you've seen her. She looks just like this:

Hopeully by now she has choked on a piece of...

Quote has been trimmed, See full post: View Post
Yep, she was ugly then, she'd be hideous by now (and probably just as f**kin' stupid)-
 
petros
#30


Good thing she ditched the glasses.
 

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