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Lets be realistic about this piece of shit town. It has been run into the ground by liberal democratic policies and now, well they are looking for a bailout.
Here is a quote that..........summarizes the entire situation.
Detroit is a Liberal's wet dream.
"If only we could get Democrats in-power for many decades" - Check.
"If only we could have a city full almost nothing but Democrats" - Check.
"If only we could get all those rotten Conservatives and Libertarians to move away" - Check.
Detroit = Liberal Utopia
Detroit = America's most Liberal City
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These idiots are what Greece is to the EU.
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...but some parts of it are nice. I have that on good authority. *nods*
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(07-18-2013, 04:15 PM)Duchess Wrote:
...but some parts of it are nice. I have that on good authority. *nods*
Yeah..........all the exit ramps look great!
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Up until last week I was convinced it was a shithole. 
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There are some nice areas down on the riverfront. There are some real bad areas too. I wouldn't live there again but I will always be fond of the area.
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Ironically, the first story on the world news tonight.
DETROIT IS BANKRUPT
78,000 abandoned building's
63% of the city is abandonded
Murder rate 40% higher than 20 years ago
I think that might classify Detroit as a shithole.
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We had to drive through a ghetto that I thought would never end, but once that was done it wasn't so bad. I'm going to downtown Detroit tomorrow, I'll report back for those who haven't been there.
There are a lot of abandoned buildings and graffiti, but some of the surrounding areas just outside of Detroit are very nice.
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(07-18-2013, 06:45 PM)FAHQTOO Wrote: 78,000 abandoned building's
63% of the city is abandonded
Murder rate 40% higher than 20 years ago
Whoa.
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Detroit Michigan and Camden NJ are always in the top ten worst US cities frequently swapping the number 1 and 2 spots from year to year.
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I liked Detroit back in '69. It had its problems but was compact and efficient except for the fact it wasn't well maintained. I visited in '74 and there were already signs of significant deterioration. I've been only in some suburbs since.
A lot of its problems is simply that there are no jobs and the educational system has failed. The automakers quite understandably started pulling out. It seems almost as though the city was "used up" and now it's mostly drugs and crime financed by the federal government.
I keep wondering if people might get a better education if they shut down the schools altogether. People would be forced to seek their own education instead of cooped up in a place of non-learning and non teaching. They teach only failure. At the very least the school boards should be shut down and responsibility turned over to principals and teachers. The schools are a dead albatross around the city's neck assuring it can never be helped.
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Plus I don't think they use iodized salt over here.
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(07-18-2013, 07:52 PM)sally Wrote: Plus I don't think they use iodized salt over here.
It wouldn't surprise me.
Come to think of it, there's so much processed food in the typical inner city diet this might be an issue.
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Minneapolis is so fortunate to receive refugees from Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee.
Our welfare system attracts 'em all.
We're so glad.
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"Things are gonna get better...but Detroit won't rise; it's got dry balls"
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Last time I was there was about 1989. I was working on the cellular switch, it was owned by the same company that owned the pager company in town. The pager office was across the lobby in the building from the switch. Friday is pay your pager bill day. That was a show, every purple hat and feather wearing zebra striped Cadillac driving pimp and wannabe was in there paying their pager bill with a roll of $ bills.
They gave me an armed escort in and out of the building
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1972.
The year Barry Gordy packed up and moved West.
That's the year of death on Detroit's tombstone.
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Never been to Detroit, but seeing the home of Motown, General Motors, the Tigers...go belly up is depressing.
I read today that the bankruptcy filing shows that the city is over $14 billion in debt, and that Detroit's population has declined from 1.8 million in the 50s to under 700,000 today.
Saw this photo a few days ago; a photographer snapped it in 1973 in Detroit and felt compelled to post it after the Zimmerman verdict. Cool shot.
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There are so many buildings that are abandoned and somehow they get to the very top of them and spray paint graffiti, it's pretty impressive. If only they invested that much time into working.
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I mean if I had the time to scale a fence and hang upside down on the overpass while spray painting "suck my my dick", I'd probably take a moment to reflect upon what it is that I'm doing with my life.
It's so motherfucking hot here too, Florida has nothing on this place.
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Its been hot for awhile when I stepped off the plane in Orlando it was the same temp I left behind in the Shire. Detroit is like a huge armpit eh?
Escape from N.Y. has nothing on that place.
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