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I think they followed the Republican game plan of squeezing what they could from the oranges and split, let those who stayed worry about cleaning up the rinds.
Or, how to run a company into the ground and scoop up the profits beforehand, then get the heck out of Dodge.
Leveraging.
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Hardly. Just take a look at the poorest, least educated, most people on welfare, and otherwise biggest dumps in the nation, they are all the screaming red south.
The GOP strongholds are the toilets of america.
Do you think it's really GOP Policies or is it demographics?
Hardly. Just take a look at the poorest, least educated, most people on welfare, and otherwise biggest dumps in the nation, they are all the screaming red south.
The GOP strongholds are the toilets of america.
Speaking of toilets:
Detroit, south side of Chicago, north side of St. Louis, East St. Louis Illinois, Cairo Illinois, etc., etc..
Last Republican Mayor of Detroit was in 1962. 1 party systems don't work.
Agreed; that's my only fear about the State of Maryland, there is no party to really debate an issue with therefore whatever Democrats propose, essentially will become legislation and eventually passed by the governor.
Agreed; that's my only fear about the State of Maryland, there is no party to really debate an issue with therefore whatever Democrats propose, essentially will become legislation and eventually passed by the governor.
Welcome to California. Where the democrats control every level of state government and still blame republicans for the states failures.
The real travesty here is that this country has allowed one of its great cities to fall into this level of disarray. It's always convenient to use veiled racism and party politics to construct scapegoats. However, If you want to look at the real culprits, look no further than the corporate entities that abandoned the city in droves--and took employment and industrial tax base with them.
It's not too late to save Detroit, but the city will have to be re-imagined. Doing that effectively will certainly require the city to make changes. It will also require the state of Michigan and the nation to assist.
Maybe Detroit should restructure themselves as "The Arsenal of Democracy" and live off Federal Military contracting and production. A lot of other places are doing quite well sucking off that gravy train.
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FWIW - I recommend folks look at a set of photographs posted on Weather.com. They are all of the ghost town that was Detroit. I have never, outside of pictures of war, seen a more depressing presentation.
The shame of it is we have NO problem bombing the crap out of another country's cities and then rebuilding them at the expense of the taxpayers to the benefit of no one but the rebuilders yet so many recoil in horror, screaming WELFARE! and SOCIALISM! at the mere mention of rebuilding our own cities.
Perhaps we could get a country like China to bomb the crap out of Detroit and then rebuild it at China's expense, let's just evacuate the people before they launch.
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and SOCIALISM!