Another FAILED BLUE Northern city, Detroit loses a staggering 25% of its population in a decade (crime rates, cost)

[majoun]

Originally Posted by RexRedux

I have, Rocker was right!

Rocker's hometown Atlanta is WAY more dangerous and crime ridden than NYC is.

[Sunny-Days-in-Florida]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

it's sad to see this once-great city reduced to rubble and open fields.

last one out please turn off the lights.

Unions ruined this city. Their demands to pay unskilled workers 30 an hour and provide all those benefits for free killed this city.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by ibarrio

people need to read beyond chain emails and right wing propaganda. I thought it was common knowledge that NAFTA was a GOP program. Guess not.

Not only did Clinton sign NAFTA, Obama is hell-bent on destroying the American trucking industry and getting rid of those jobs from the USA.

[RexRedux]

Originally Posted by majoun

Rocker's hometown Atlanta is WAY more dangerous and crime ridden than NYC is.

Ummmmm, he's not from Atlanta.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by Sunny-Days90

Unions ruined this city. Their demands to pay unskilled workers 30 an hour and provide all those benefits for free killed this city.

Which unskilled workers in Detroit made 30 bucks an hour on average? Even at peak, the average was never anymore than 28 per hour. Only skilled labour made more. And even if unskilled labor did make as much as you say (and they didn't), it aint like they stuck that money under mattresses. They SPENT that money and spent it fast. That money went right back into the local economy like clockwork.

Again with the right wing oversimplifying of problems. Turn off Rush for five minutes.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by majoun

Rocker's hometown Atlanta is WAY more dangerous and crime ridden than NYC is.

Yea, Atlanta is far more dangerous than NYC is. It aint even close.

[andrea3821]

Originally Posted by detwahDJ

Emotional, vague, and simplistic beyond words! Try contributing rather than venting!

Who's the emotional one here? How about a valid response to the posts instead of whining?

[andrea3821]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

I mean WHICH WHITES?

There hasn't been a significant white population of any note in that city in well over 35 years. So who are these white people that are moving out?

The ones who are still there. Bobby, Sally and Danny. I never said there was a significant white population, where did you get this?

[andrea3821]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

What facts? To say that the reason a city has gone downhill because of a social program is dumb and an oversimplification. That city has been in decline since the mid 60's when there were plenty of prosperous citizens living in it. Funny how that seems to coincide with the fact that there were about 12 large auto plants in the city at one time, and now there are 3.

You're picking too much.

1) I never said that. Other posters did. I think it does play a role, however, it is not the only reason. I might add that poverty in those proportions can have a HUGE effect on the microeconomy of that area. It's "dumb" to think that it wouldn't.

2) The auto plants goes back to my statement of bending over to union thuggery.

Seriously, can you please stop getting so emotional about it and develop a mature argument against what is being said?

[doc1]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

mayor bing is going to go out and rustle up another 40,000:

Sounds like a job for ACORN.