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Old 02-28-2011, 08:10 PM
 
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Beck: Hiroshima vs. Detroit - Fox News Video - FoxNews.com

TV's Glenn Beck is taking aim at Detroit, comparing our city to Hiroshima
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Old 02-28-2011, 08:29 PM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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After WWII, the U.S. spent $2 1/2 Billion rebuilding Japan. Imagine if that money had been spent on Detroit instead of on the country that attempted to destroy us.
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Old 02-28-2011, 08:39 PM
 
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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do you honestly care what a lunatic with raging ADHD who's profession is to talk a bunch of pathological smack thinks about your city?
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Old 02-28-2011, 08:41 PM
 
Location: Somewhere below Mason/Dixon
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Everytime I see that mess on national TV I am embarassed as a Michigan resident. By the way Beck is right, the socialist programs have never helped anyone in Detroit, and they played a part in the city being what it is today. Its time we clean that place up, lock up the criminals and tear down the squaler. Detroit is the worst kind of PR Michigan can get. We all deserve better than allowing one city to damage the image of our state. Ill never understand how the people who live there allowed the city to get that bad. I say shame on you Detroit. I guess its no different than watching an episode of hoarders and wondering why the slobs didnt pick up thier garbage, just on a much larger scale.
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Old 02-28-2011, 08:44 PM
 
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Glenn Beck is a moron, and I'm a lifelong Repbulican.
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Old 02-28-2011, 08:50 PM
 
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After WWII, the U.S. spent $2 1/2 Billion rebuilding Japan. Imagine if that money had been spent on Detroit instead of on the country that attempted to destroy us.
2.5 billion is a lot of money and it's even more today. That 2.5 billion would be worth 30 billion or more after factoring inflation.
Imagine if all of that money the government gives to poor countries went instead to our own country. Think about the hundreds of billions of dollars the government spends on assistance programs. What if they went to something more useful?

One thing I hate about the Glen Beck video is that he is comparing two completely different things. He's comparing the nice parts of Hiroshima to the crappy parts of Detroit.
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Old 03-01-2011, 12:17 AM
 
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
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Everytime I see that mess on national TV I am embarassed as a Michigan resident. By the way Beck is right, the socialist programs have never helped anyone in Detroit, and they played a part in the city being what it is today. Its time we clean that place up, lock up the criminals and tear down the squaler. Detroit is the worst kind of PR Michigan can get. We all deserve better than allowing one city to damage the image of our state. Ill never understand how the people who live there allowed the city to get that bad. I say shame on you Detroit. I guess its no different than watching an episode of hoarders and wondering why the slobs didnt pick up thier garbage, just on a much larger scale.
The problems in Detroit are a lot more complicated than a screaming simpleton ranter like Beck can comprehend.

I'd attribute the major factors in the decline as overdependence on the auto industry (and its boom/busts), white flight to the suburbs over several decades (accelerated after the 1967 riots) and subsequent disinvestment - which has eroded its tax base. The city has also lost population steadily over the years, and this has meant that it can no longer maintain the infrastructure that was built for a much larger population. Hence there are lots of areas of Detroit that look like prairie.

Funny, I've been to Hiroshima a few years ago, and it's a really nice city. It's compact, easy to get around, and not too overwhelming like Tokyo or New York City. You'd never think it was leveled by the atomic bomb until you visit the Peace Museum with its exhibits and the park surrounding it with its memorials. Heck, if Hiroshima can recover, so can Detroit, if the political will and investment are there.
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Old 03-01-2011, 01:30 AM
 
Location: Cleveland
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Everytime I see that mess on national TV I am embarassed as a Michigan resident. By the way Beck is right, the socialist programs have never helped anyone in Detroit, and they played a part in the city being what it is today. Its time we clean that place up, lock up the criminals and tear down the squaler. Detroit is the worst kind of PR Michigan can get. We all deserve better than allowing one city to damage the image of our state. Ill never understand how the people who live there allowed the city to get that bad. I say shame on you Detroit. I guess its no different than watching an episode of hoarders and wondering why the slobs didnt pick up thier garbage, just on a much larger scale.
Shame on you, man. Detroit has its problems, but if some blowhard uses the biggest city in your state as a cheap prop to advance his facile views of the world, not giving it any kind of fair shake, you might consider standing up for it. Where the hell's your pride?

And, yeah, as other posters implied, this jackass's point works against him. If Detroit looks like Hiroshima, that's a reminder that it can be restored to, if not its former glory, something new that is worthy of human habitation in the 21st century.

Americans like to ignore instances where this has been done. It's just in our nature to stick emotionally on a place in a certain point in time and give up on it and move on if it doesn't remain exactly the same. We're a restless nation of dreamers. Eventually we'll realize that our continuous search for a new geographical frontier is absurd and in total control of our lives, to the detriment of the frontier we really want to reach, which involves treating people better and developing real relationships with other humans. We can do this by restoring our old cities, not abandoning them. And by not listening to talk radio.
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Old 03-01-2011, 10:28 AM
 
Location: west mich
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Limbaugh does the same. Guys, it's really a lot simpler than this.
They see Detroit as a large Democratic base and want to discredit it. Same as unions. Expect this to happen with any "liberal" or "Democrat" target in America you can think of.
Limbaugh, Beck etal are millionaire evangelistic propaganda hirelings for plutocracy and probably don't even believe what they say!
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Old 03-01-2011, 10:45 AM
 
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Beck is a clown; anyone who takes him seriously, shouldn't. He's a mouthbreathing moron.
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