Time for a radical change in Detroit. (car insurance, loft)

[Dubs1010]

I'm 22, European ancestry, hail from Macomb County, and I'm college educated. Every night I turn on the news there's a story about a 5-year old being shot, a house on fire with a child in it, but no fire trucks available. I myself was in a car accident on New Years leaving Motor City Casino. The driver drove off once he re-started his car, and police told me to come into the precient tomorrow because "I was a low priority". It's time for the 88% predominantly black city to re-elect white politicians. Detroit thrived under white politicians. The problem is racism facing whites who would attempt to run, or want to run like myself. Monica Conyers openly said in a Detroit City Council forum that whites need to stay on the other side of 8 mile.


47% Illiteracy isn't alright, how did these people even graduate?

-DPS schools don't need an emergency manager. I would privatize the school district with funds from a collective pool of investors. Just like the 200 million that was turned down by the city from a private investor. Newark eventually received what was meant for Detroit and has thrived since then (statistically of course).

Average Response time 19+ minutes.

- Another big issue is safety. Why would anyone want to move back into the city with no public services available when you need them. I myself have been looking to buy a loft in Midtown but this is the one thing stopping me. What if I had some kind of allergic reaction or emergency? I'm likely to die. The system is too corrupt because the money is there, and there is money out there, but nothing gets done. I would ask for Federal takeover/mgt. To ensure that the corruption is eliminated.

- I would also not only make sure Bridge Cards have a 4-year limit, but welfare would be cut off after 6-years. We can't have generational users. Welfare isn't a way of life, and many people are abusing it. If you can't change your situation in 6 YEARS, then you are lazy. A Bachelor's degree is only 4 years.

- I would create more work detail programs having to do with the judicial system. The men who want to ruin the city will now be forced to make it beautiful (chain gang style).

There are many more issues that I have views and solutions to. I'm not naive enough to believe many of these issues are not buried under red-tape or would be complex to solve in their nature, for example: Education starts at home, I learned how to read BEFORE kidnergarten, my parents taught me. Even if I lived on the moon I wouldn't have been illiterate because education is VALUED in my family. Truth is, many inner city blacks (I put blacks on the spot because the city is 88% black afterall) do not have support sytems or the same values. 70% of black men have children out of wed lock and leave the mother fend for her own. Props to the ones who don't. What I'm trying to say is education starts at home and the kids who want to be at school will be there. This will cut down gang violence in schools, you won't be "needed" to go. There will be no more "count days" and stupid giveaways (which you'd never see in the suburbs go figure). Only serious students allowed (which in essence should be all due to the welfare cuts).

I could go on this rant for hours but I'll prematurely end it. Detroit needs a radical policy somewhat along these lines. No more leftwing liberals giving handouts. Work for what you want this is a capitalistic society which shouldn't support the lazy. It's a shame middleclass blacks of Detroit who pay their taxes and take care of their homes are brought down by the enigma of the trash that lives off the system.

We need more buildings torn down sure, but building a civilization starts with education, morals and public services. BING DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THIS.

Stop corruption, worthless spending, and handouts. Detroit will regain its glory.

[zthatzmanz28]

Welcome aboard the bandwagon! There are those amongst us that have been pointing this out since 1990 and earlier...some even as early as 1980.

BING does understand this. Look beyond the man and see the city council. There lies a huge obstacle.

Just an FYI, Bridge cards are not a Detroit program, and I believe Snyder has addressed this issue.

[detwahDJ]

How does a poor person get a Bachelor's degree?
Corporate-owned schools? Who would set the curriculum? Who would the "customers" be?

[skyl4rk]

We need people who are willing to live together in peace, not try to polarize the issue. The extremists on either end of the spectrum (black seperatists, white racists) make the most noise, but the numbers go to the people of peace and we are the ones who will make progress.

[Cliffie]

Originally Posted by detwahDJ

How does a poor person get a Bachelor's degree?
Corporate-owned schools? Who would set the curriculum? Who would the "customers" be?

And if they could get degrees, where are they going to get jobs to allow them to pay off the loans? Even if they don't have student loans to pay off, where are they going to get jobs? Black and white is not the issue, not at all. The problem is that this is a one-industry city -- an industry owned by a small coterie of white guys, 1010 -- and that industry has been circling the drain for years. When the auto industry is doing well, it's because some engineer in Texas came up with a new robot that puts a dozen people here out of work. Because we don't make chocolates, or sofas, or glassware, or fishing tackle in Detroit. We make cars.

[Coldjensens]

Originally Posted by detwahDJ

How does a poor person get a Bachelor's degree?
Corporate-owned schools? Who would set the curriculum? Who would the "customers" be?

The same way I did. Work, borrow, apply for small scholarships (there are thousands of scholarships out there). Scrape by, don't eat out. Don't go to movies. No cell phone or cable TV. No internet (go to the library). Fix your car yourself. Eat lots of pasta. When necessary take only a couple of classes (you can catch up by taking one or two in the summer).

[Retroit]

The last thing the black people of Detroit want to hear is another white suburbanite telling them how to live. If us white people want Detroit to change, we have to move there and change it ourselves. And some are!

[fmax]

Retroit is right. "Be the change". Go live down there. I found an abandoned outpost I'm sure you could move into for free.

Or simply recognize the scale of the situation and move out of state like the others do.

[Dubs1010]

I'm typing from my blackberry so excuse any grammar errors etc. because it's hard to see the font. To address the person who said how do poor people pay for school. Trust me it's easy if you're poor and black especially. Gov't grants, loans, scholarships are easy to obtain. I come from a middle class white family and paid my way it was probably tougher. I was given no grant assistance because my family made "enough money over the cut off" but we still lived paycheck to paycheck like most other white suburban families. Also, as far as jobs go for college students. My alma mater has a saying "our graduates innovate and create jobs, they don't take them" my best friend and I have started an automotive leather wrapping start up ourselves. So don't cop out under "how can they do this, or that." I'm so sick of bridge card abuse. It is a federal problem and it has been addressed by Snyder but non-profits in detroit are trying to stop anything from being passed. And my point was basically to make sure legislation passes to ensure a limitation.

[SadieMirsade]

Originally Posted by detwahDJ

How does a poor person get a Bachelor's degree?
Corporate-owned schools? Who would set the curriculum? Who would the "customers" be?

Totally government funded schools, in exchange for civil service.
Low cost, non-profit (gov't again ) banking and financial services (car insurance), in order to facilitate, and lower the costs of innovation and production.

The idea being to lower all the input costs pertinent to dissemination of knowledge, creativity, innovation, production,
in order to stimulate employment and production.
In order to be able to compete with low cost overseas locations.

This was what the economist Farid Khavari (ran for Florida governor) proposed, as part of his plan to revive and redirect Florida's stagnant economy.