The key things about Detroit’s bankruptcy are that it didn’t happen overnight – and it didn’t have to happen at all. Detroit’s long, sad slide started in 195…
Detroit’s Tragedy and How to Fix It
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The takers will eventually outnumber the earners. And the rest of the
country will end up looking just like Detroit…… Deep down you know
this.
Detroit is in the middle of bankruptcy. If it does indeed happen Detroit
will have a clean slate. If the bankruptcy judge appoints a smart honest
trustee I think Detroit has a good chance of re emerging a prosperous and
vibrant city. Downsize, simplify, and provide good basic services. Also
union members can learn an important lesson here. When you are promised
money in a contract by the union leaders and politicians make sure you get
that money right then and there. Money talks and BS walks. If your not
getting whats promised to you take immediate action, work slowdown, strike,
whatever it takes to get your money. Don’t accept promises of future
payments. You as a union member are not a money lender.Force your
politician bosses to deliver the cash! It will save a lot of grief in the
future.
I am a former union member and present businessman.
Detroit is in the middle of bankruptcy. If it does indeed happen Detroit
will have a clean slate. If the bankruptcy judge appoints a smart honest
trustee I think Detroit has a good chance of re emerging a prosperous and
vibrant city. Downsize, simplify, and provide good basic services. Also
union members can learn an important lesson here. When you are promised
money in a contract by the union leaders and politicians make sure you get
that money right then and there. Money talks and BS walks. If your not
getting whats promised to you take immediate action, work slowdown, strike,
whatever it takes to get your money. Don’t accept promises of future
payments. You as a union member are not a money lender.Force your
politician bosses to deliver the cash! It will save a lot of grief in the
future.
I am a former union member and present businessman.
[WATCH]: The key things about Detroit’s bankruptcy are that it didn’t
happen overnight – and it didn’t have to happen at all.
The only hope for Detroit is to replace the current population with people
who actually have an education, job, and some moral structure
Detroit is in the middle of bankruptcy. If it does indeed happen Detroit
will have a clean slate. If the bankruptcy judge appoints a smart honest
trustee I think Detroit has a good chance of re emerging a prosperous and
vibrant city. Downsize, simplify, and provide good basic services. Also
union members can learn an important lesson here. When you are promised
money in a contract by the union leaders and politicians make sure you get
that money right then and there. Money talks and BS walks. If your not
getting whats promised to you take immediate action, work slowdown, strike,
whatever it takes to get your money. Don’t accept promises of future
payments. You as a union member are not a money lender.Force your
politician bosses to deliver the cash! It will save a lot of grief in the
future.
I am a former union member and present businessman.
*Detroit’s Tragedy and How to Fix It*
The key things about Detroit’s bankruptcy are that it didn’t happen
overnight – and it didn’t have to happen at all.
Detroit’s long, sad slide started in 1950, when the Motor City’s population
peaked at nearly 2 million people. Now it’s around 700,000.
The hollowing out of the city was on gut-wrenching display in two recent
exhibits at the National Building Museum, featuring photographs by Camilo
Jose Vergara and Andrew Moore.
In fat times and lean, the city’s pols and power-brokers chose to focus
their energy, and the residents’ tax dollars on gigantic, big-ticket
development scams while ignoring the basics that let cities thrive — or at
least survive.
Detroit’s leaders poured money into a never-ending assembly line of
sad-sack projects such as the Renaissance Center, the Fox Theater, Comerica
Park, Poletown, the People Mover, and Ford Field.
But unlike Pompei and other cities crushed by Nature’s wrath or God’s
wrath, Detroit’s destruction is completely man-made and thus can be
reversed. The city that midwifed the Model T and the Cadillac, Bob Seger
and Eminem, Ted Nugent and the Insane Clown Posse, still has tremendous
assets in terms of infrastructure, location, and people.
Like Buffalo, Cleveland, St. Louis, and other dead cities scattered across
the map of the industrial Midwest like so many cigarette burns, Detroit can
stage its own comeback by reducing crime and picking up garbage; by freeing
kids, parents, and property values from an abysmal school system; and
getting the government out of everything that isn’t essential.
In other words, Detroit’s leaders only need to do what they should have
been doing for the past 50 years. And the city’s dwindling supply of
residents needs to keep them honest this time.
Because Detroit is finally out of next times.
Whats really sad is how much Detroit now looks like City 17.
sad
[WATCH]: The key things about Detroit’s bankruptcy are that it didn’t
happen overnight – and it didn’t have to happen at all.
[WATCH]: The key things about Detroit’s bankruptcy are that it didn’t
happen overnight – and it didn’t have to happen at all.
The offshoring of jobs and the importation of millions of third worlders is
depressing wages really hard. But the manufacturing base moving out of
Detroit isn’t what ended up killing it. Other cities lost their
manufacturing as well but didn’t collapse. It was because the Africans in
the city decided that they would riot and “claim” the city for themselves.
So all of the Whites and Asians moved away and built prosperous suburbs
Africans can’t build a prosperous city, period. .
no body wants to hear that shit you are talking… youre race baiting is
weak…just shut the fuck up and be glad its not you. There are white
people who have lived in Detroit all their lives and they are suffering
also. You will take it like a joke drinking your fucking coffee from
starbucks until you start start seeing it happen to other cities. Then you
will realize its not just Detroit thats going down. This whole shit is.
Slowly but surely coming to your city also.
Schools, trash, police, all rightfully supported by unions. They’re not the
problem, our masters are.
At 1:12 he starts to describe all of the former major manufacturing cities
as ‘cigarette burns” and then goes on to give a solution – Spend lots of
money cleaning up Detroit. Oh, and do this ‘with as little Government as
possible’. Isn’t that the same thing you just said destroyed Detroit? You
atheistic “libertarians’ are what’s ruining America.
Capitalism works. Socialism doesn’t ask Detroitians
The attitudes, and excesses of management are what killed the “American
car”. Engineers are hired as temps. The union workers built the cars as
they were designed, with the parts that were supplied. My issue is with the
cars as they are designed. The core engine design from 1957 chevrolets, is
not very different from what is used in todays SUV’s. So, you are
suggesting that research on new designs are a waste? We can just keep
building 1957 Chevrolets. That will beat Honda.
You know NOTHING sir. It appears you are living in a world of Faux news
mentality. When confronted with facts, instead of having a dialog in which
YOU present facts to the contrary you immediately lower yourself to resort
to name calling (labeling me as a commie) This is so typical of the right
wingers.
I would rather buy my car from a hard working Asian for 30% less than some
fat ass union worker I can then use that extra 30% for other U.S. goods.
Yes, I did claim that,he didn’t know what he is talking about,after I
presented my point I was called a commie. So yup, he brought this about. No
sir, I do not work for the city. I work for a global corporation that has
an office/branch in the city. I am a 28 yr union man who has been active in
the union serving as an officer on several occasions, which by no means
makes me a union “expert” but damn near (& at least more than any non
member). MetalDetroit’s answer to everyone that doesn’t
i think crime caused this decay, when criminals take over , law abiding
citizens move out
No – Detroit IS the topic of Conversation. And when people state that
Corporations and outsourcing is the cause of Detroit’s problems – then they
really have no clue what they are talking about.
corporatism is capitalism.
Blacks came north to work in Detroit factories but when jobs left the first
to lose jobs were blacks. Whites can relocate easier to find jobs in a
country de-industrializing than blacks could. How long will right wingers
cling to the “it’s all the blacks fault” while their middle class is
degraded and their jobs are offshored?
Give this man a cigar! He hit the nail right on the head.
I agreed with him on the corrupt Government of Detroit. Yes, there was
union corruption also. But unions are not what sucked the city dry & drove
everyone out to the suburbs. The unions of today are not like their
predecessors. People always think UAW when they think unions & paint us
with a broad brush. Cops, fireman, nurses, teachers, painters,
electricians, carpenters, basically all trades have unions. Please don’t
lump us all into one category.
Yet he does seem to know what he’s talking about. And if you’ve been a
union man for 28+ years, you should be mature enough to know that picking a
fight with someone and insulting him is likely to generate an emotional and
insulting response. I’ve got an idea. The UAW is a rich organization, and
has access to federal funds and a sympathetic ear in Washington. Why not
have the union form their own auto company? Given how easy and profitable
it is to run one, I’m sure it’ll be a cinch.
Freedom for Detroit
Facts can be found online to counter right wing false reality. Google:
“Canadians Surpass Americans in Net Worth”. Google: “The British Are Much
Healthier Than The Americans”. Google: “America Now Has Less Class Mobility
Than Most of Europe”. Google: “Forbes: How Germany Builds Twice as Many
Cars as the U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice as Much”. Google; “Stocks
Of Socialized Countries Have Outperformed U.S. Since Reagan Era”
Its not that capitalism failed in America. Its corporatism that has brought
decline in America. I’m sure Canada’s economy wouldn’t be stable if it was
trying to act like Rome while bailing out big business.
As long as there is ONE tax payer to be robbed, the politicians won’t
change a thing. I’ve suggested a wealthy investor should come in and buy up
a huge swath of land at above value price with the stipulation that once
the sale is final, the land is no longer within the jurisdiction of Detroit
or the surrounding county, so only state and federal laws will apply. This
will give the investor the freedom he needs to make a real recovery.
The Republicans in the senate voted FOR millions more third worlders to
become citizens. The Republicans in the house are the only ones fighting
this. The senate is completely corrupted by big corporation money. Mark
Zuckerburg the Facebook billionaire has been pushing for amnesty hard and
even paying for TV ads. ALL billionaires want the cheap labor. But yeah,
import the third world and you’ll get the third world.
Didn’t they film that shitty movie 8 mile there. Eminem promotes it yet not
even the greediest most smelliest pathetic director wants to go in to that
toilet. This should tell yall sumuthin.
Beg pardon? Didn’t you claim that he “didn’t know what he was talking
about”? Weren’t you the one dismissing everything he had to say as
“libertarian nonsense”? And now you’re accusing HIM of a “slam fest”? I’m
curious. You say you work in the city. Since the Detroit municipal
government is the biggest employer in the city now, is that who you happen
to work for? Because that would explain a great many things.