Hiroshima: 67 Years Later
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The reason Detroit is a post-manufacturing ghost town is because manufacturing has become multi-national and discovered they could build things in cheap-labor countries thus increasing profits. Politicians certainly did not oppose out-sourcing of jobs so now the great manufacturing centers like Detroit are paying the price.
Which political party has controlled Detroit for about half a century? What responsibility do those politicians from that party have for the collapse of Detroit?
Who is responsible for cities like Detroit? The real beginning of the problem started
with You guessed it Ronald Reagan. The President that sold his country out. He
was the champion of industry and the corporations. Don't talk about local or state
officials like they had a say in what was going they didn't The other half to the
problem was Bill Clinton, he too continued with the free trade nonsense which was a
cover to hand power over to the corporations, and they continued their actions to lower
our standard of living in order to raise Asia's cause they could sell them all kinds of
new goods and services.
W was an equal disaster of course he screwed up everything he touched. Obama is
not perfect, but he is trying to bring some social balance to the country. In my view too
little too late.
Someone or some group of western leaders must get control of the agenda and put the
companies in their place. The people should be in charge of the nation not the leaders
and not the corporations. If you are counting on that any time soon you are dreaming.
The only way to settle this kind of social upheaval is the way Brazil, Chile and a host of
other nations citizens did it IN the Street day after day. that too is a long way off because
we don't have an APP for that
with You guessed it Ronald Reagan. The President that sold his country out. He
was the champion of industry and the corporations. Don't talk about local or state
officials like they had a say in what was going they didn't The other half to the
problem was Bill Clinton, he too continued with the free trade nonsense which was a
cover to hand power over to the corporations, and they continued their actions to lower
our standard of living in order to raise Asia's cause they could sell them all kinds of
new goods and services.
W was an equal disaster of course he screwed up everything he touched. Obama is
not perfect, but he is trying to bring some social balance to the country. In my view too
little too late.
Someone or some group of western leaders must get control of the agenda and put the
companies in their place. The people should be in charge of the nation not the leaders
and not the corporations. If you are counting on that any time soon you are dreaming.
The only way to settle this kind of social upheaval is the way Brazil, Chile and a host of
other nations citizens did it IN the Street day after day. that too is a long way off because
we don't have an APP for that
"What are we doing to help rebuild Detroit?"
Uhm... it's empty, why would you rebuild it? To attempt to compare Hiroshima to Detroit is ridiculous. One is a populated, vibrant city, and will remain that way due to the limited land mass possessed by the Japanese. Detroit on the other hand holds no draw for people, and in a land mass with ample room to move elsewhere, people have. Detroit is a symbol of the luxury the American people have to move to more lucrative grounds.
Uhm... it's empty, why would you rebuild it? To attempt to compare Hiroshima to Detroit is ridiculous. One is a populated, vibrant city, and will remain that way due to the limited land mass possessed by the Japanese. Detroit on the other hand holds no draw for people, and in a land mass with ample room to move elsewhere, people have. Detroit is a symbol of the luxury the American people have to move to more lucrative grounds.
I have to ask, how have the other American cities fared in the struggle to absorb the people who've moved out of Detroit? Housing booms? Overcrowding?
Because from where I sit, without a political or economic stake in the Detroit issue, it just strikes me as an issue of natural population movement. It's definitely not the first ghost town, or even the first ghost city, in the world.
Because from where I sit, without a political or economic stake in the Detroit issue, it just strikes me as an issue of natural population movement. It's definitely not the first ghost town, or even the first ghost city, in the world.
Detroit isn't a ghost town. It has hundreds of thousands of people living within its confines. They are the ones who can't or don't want to escape. The former are prey and the latter are predators.
We'd never be able to afford our own manufactured goods and we don't have the infrastructure to meet current exports and imports.