How to fix Detroit

[Jwo85]

Originally Posted by abcde-fam

How to fix Detroit??

Umm dont bother, it will get trashed again. (My 2cents)

Times Square got fixed and parts of Harlem got fixed. Did NYC get trashed again?Nope.

[waltlantz]

If the big apple can come back from the brink, there is no reason Detroit can't.

[xcalgal]

I am considering moving to Detroit. It seems to me that a little gerrymandering might help. If a district (for example, near Palmer Woods that someone mentioned in another post) could secede from Wayne County and become part of Oakland County perhaps we could shrink the area that the Detroit politicians "run." Little by little, we could improve Detroit. Do you think the residents of a seceding district would vote to be part of Oakland Co. when there is a good chance their property values will go up? This may be pie in the sky hopes, but there may be someone out there who has the where-with-all to make it happen.

[Jamie40829]

i cant stand people who know NOTHING about the city and get on here or in face to face conversation and bash the area just because what they hear on the news. I have literally fought with several people in my current area because of their ignorant misconceptions of Detroit.

[scolls]

Originally Posted by xcalgal

I am considering moving to Detroit. It seems to me that a little gerrymandering might help. If a district (for example, near Palmer Woods that someone mentioned in another post) could secede from Wayne County and become part of Oakland County perhaps we could shrink the area that the Detroit politicians "run." Little by little, we could improve Detroit. Do you think the residents of a seceding district would vote to be part of Oakland Co. when there is a good chance their property values will go up? This may be pie in the sky hopes, but there may be someone out there who has the where-with-all to make it happen.

This is not going to help Detroit. This is the problem. There are too many dividing line in the community. 10 years ago it was 8 mile. Now where is it? 16 mile? Hall RD? First and foremost Detroit needs an overhall in government. This may sound racist, but we need to bring whites back into Detroit. I don't know of any other city with a population of over 500,000+ to have such a majority of one race. The city needs diversity. The city also needs big business to relocate there. The sad part is, the University of Michigan is almost in their backyard and it is one of the top colleges in the country, yet the grads are moving away. Detroit has such a good talent pool in Ann Arbor, yet none of them will even consider Detroit. Detroit needs to diversify its economy. Manufacturing in America is gone. Detroit needs to shift to a knowledge based economy. In the end, it's going to come down to united the area and not secceding from the city.

[youngpeterj]

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I was from the burbs and left for the Marines over a decade ago. I am sad at the state of my city and state. My opinion on how to fix Detroit is:
1. Make it the cheapest, tax wise, city for a corporation to operate in.
2. Make unions concede that not everyone can make 80 dollars an hour. The people in Detroit can make a great living on far less.
3. Have a real leader who will inspire the people to rise up and chase out the bad apples in the city.
4. Convince the workers that they are not entitled to a job but that hard work and productivity will make them an attractive work force.

Attracting business with cheap taxes and labor is the only way to get the people of Detroit back to work.
Some day i will get out of the military and i plan to return to my state and try to make a difference.

[zthatzmanz28]

Yeah..I also understand the unions:
killed the Kennedys
abducted Jimmy Hoffa
operate the largest porn business in the world
and just elected OSAMA BIN LADEN PRESIDENT.

Those darn unions have just DESTROYED the aMERICAN way of life...

Next thing you know they will want equal pay for equal work
Safe work environments
40 hour work weeks
Time and a half for over 40 hours
HEALTH CARE
RETIREMENT

Oh wait...it was the CORPORATIONS that willingly gave us these.

The union just took money to pad their own pockets.

CORPORATE aMERICA will do right by their employees..



Just the sight of one more child screamin' from hunger in an aMERICAN slum

Or his mother slavin' 14 hours a day for the scum

Who exploit her and take her youth and throw it on a factory floor

Oh honey, I just can't take any more

They've locked us out,
they've banned our unions,
they even treat their animals better than us

No! It's far better to die like a man on your feet than to live forever like some slave on your knees, honey

apologies to Black 47 for personalizing their lyrics...

[geekstreat]

In order to change the city, you have to change the people and the way they think. Stop being a welfare state and those with that mentality will exit, but it will never happen, and you want to know why, because once a government stops issuing welfare checks, theyre getting voted out. Back to status quo. There has to be welfare reform. Maybe it will give rebirth to the REAL entrepenuer's American spirit in people who have known nothing less that government dependance. Less government, power back to the people. Man, that sounds familiar. Good luck.