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1 in 3 Detroit residents is poor (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/METRO/808270374/1409/Metro - broken link) making it the poorest large city in the nation;
47.8% of children live below the poverty line (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/METRO/808270374/1409/Metro - broken link) in Detroit;
From Detroit: A bleak picture of poverty | Michigan Messenger (http://michiganmessenger.com/3354/from-detroit-a-bleak-picture-of-poverty - broken link)
Please...there have been plenty of abandoned homes in the Detroit burbs. You actually think that the suburbs have escaped the same housing crisis that exists within the city limits?
To a lesser extent. I can't speak for Detroit but in Milwaukee, the inner city area is completely blighted and there are abandoned houses everywhere you look. You don't see that in the burbs.
Another one who has no clue about what they're talking about.
Which whites are moving out to the burbs?
What do you mean "which whites"?
Before we moved to Milwaukee, we considered moving to Detroit. The statistics scared me away from that area. Don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, anybody can look up statistics and see the big picture on what is going on there.
If the Mexicans don't mind the cold and snowy weather, they all need to move to Detroit, and develop it like the Cubans did to Miami.
Detroit needs a renaissance.
Cubans and Mexicans are not the same. The Cubans we received since the 60s were the smart, enterprising ones. While the Mexicans we get are the poor, illiterate ones with no skills other than stealing jobs and welfare
Cubans and Mexicans are not the same. The Cubans we received since the 60s were the smart, enterprising ones. While the Mexicans we get are the poor, illiterate ones with no skills other than stealing jobs and welfare
Mexicans are resourceful and industrious.
They are very enterprising business people.
It won't be long before a slice of Mexicana comes to Detroit.
And they should be welcomed with open arms in the same way that Miami did for the Cubans.
And there wasn't a Cuban empire in Miami until the 80's when the drug money rolled through and built that city. Before 1982, Miami was where old folks went to retire.
It won't be long before a slice of Mexicana comes to Detroit.
And they should be welcomed with open arms in the same way that Miami did for the Cubans.
And there wasn't a Cuban empire in Miami until the 80's when the drug money rolled through and built that city. Before 1982, Miami was where old folks went to retire.
There are already Mexicans in Detroit, they have their own neighborhood
Rampant welfare destroyed Detroit. The fatherless children of the welfare generation chased the upper and the working classes out of the city, leaving it what you see today.
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Detroit should serve as a tutorial on the effects of welfare, subsidies and regulation.
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I.e., bending over to union thuggery.
Emotional, vague, and simplistic beyond words! Try contributing rather than venting!
People of Detroit didn't want to work for 3rd world wages. What was the conservative/corporate response...outsource.
Detroit, like many midwest cities, simply waited too long to join the race to the bottom to see who could be the most underpaid by corporate America. They thought people of this country would think its right to pay the true cost and liveable wages for the products they buy. They thought wrong.
Before we moved to Milwaukee, we considered moving to Detroit. The statistics scared me away from that area. Don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, anybody can look up statistics and see the big picture on what is going on there.
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?
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