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I gave up driving several years ago and sold my 1980 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II. I walk most places; and if it's too far to walk, I take a cab. And, when I go out on the town, I hire a limo. At my age, I don't want to be burdened with possessions, and owning a car can be burdensome. As Ruskin put it: "Every new possession loads us with new weariness.”
....Detroit will be back to ignoring (and cutting) public transportation. Resume mass water shutoffs!
Everything is all good in the neighborhood now, right?
A dead limb that needs severed from the tree. Thank 50 years of rock solid liberal governance for Detroit's current condition, because they have ruled that roost with almost total unanimity for at least that long.
A lot of unpleasant things are required to make Detroit a once more thriving metropolis, and many of them will not play well in the Church of Victimology.
If public transportation is self supporting and generates a sufficient profit to expand it's service, fine, expand it. Raise rates enough to make it self-supporting; it's still a LOT cheaper than buying a car, paying registration, tax, fuel, maintenance and parking.
What does "mass water shutoffs" have to do with anything? Is the municipality unable to provide water to people that have paid their water bill?
A dead limb that needs severed from the tree. Thank 50 years of rock solid liberal governance for Detroit's current condition, because they have ruled that roost with almost total unanimity for at least that long.
A lot of unpleasant things are required to make Detroit a once more thriving metropolis, and many of them will not play well in the Church of Victimology.
And the libs who voted for democrats and their asinine regulations, taxes, economic and social policies, have all moved on to other states to repeat their voting habits and support of more of the same. Liberals are a locust who destroy everything in their path.
Hey libs, there is no such thing as Utopia, your cannot bully the people and businesses and legislate endless taxpayer spending to try and bring about your Utopia either.
And the libs who voted for democrats and their asinine regulations, taxes, economic and social policies, have all moved on to other states to repeat their voting habits and support of more of the same. Liberals are a locust who destroy everything in their path.
Hey libs, there is no such thing as Utopia, your cannot bully the people and businesses and legislate endless taxpayer spending to try and bring about your Utopia either.
Well, not to focus this on one party or the other, but in general, what will "fix" Detroit is stuff that will not play well on the liberal side of the political aisle. Nothing in a dilapidated state gets fixed by having more people stand around it wringing their hands. Busted things get fixed when someone puts money and time into them. For someone to want to do that, there simply must be a payoff. A massive gentrification could fix Detroit, but that would dislocate, isolate or confine the city's poor to some other area. First thing in gentrification is scrubbing away the mold, the rot and the decay.
Basically, you need to make the city attractive for rich people to want to buy homes and do business there. To do that, you must greatly diminish if not totally eradicate those things that rich people find unpleasant...like crime, poverty, urban blight, etc. Displacing the poor is a very real and very necessary component of urban renewal. Coats of paint, city gardens, etc...all make the dying patient look prettier in the bed, but still are not a cure for the disease itself.
Once rich people find the city appealing to establish themselves in, they will. Once they do, middle class will come to try and cash in as well.
Not a real tough equation, but again, when looking at things strictly economically, it sounds very cold, harsh and quite mean spirited. Economic facts are cold like that. So....figure the odds of a liberal, welfare state enclave like Detroit applying cold, economic reality type solutions. Never gonna happen. Because what is needed to fix the city is tough, harsh and kind of ugly from a social justice standpoint. I have no feeling on it one way or the other, because I don't live there nor do I plan to, but facts are facts, and making poor people happier and more comfortable is not how you rescue a dying city.
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