Look at Detroit in 1945 and Hiroshima in 1945. And look at the two of them today

[basquebromance]

what went wrong with America?

 

[toomuchtime_]

what went wrong with America?

We don't nuke our cities?

 

[Pogo]

what went wrong with America?

It got internet and invited clueless wastes of human protoplasm to post a load of crapola about places and people and things they know absolutely nothing about after which they could go "look mommy, I make post".

I've actually been to Detroit. In person. It's no different from anywhere else. And the Motown Museum is inspirational.

Say Biscuit --- how the fuck is a thread that offers no topic, no link, no nuttin', categorized as "Politics"?

 

[eflatminor]

what went wrong with America?

Leftism/Collectivism

 

[blastoff]

what went wrong with America?

It got internet and invited clueless wastes of human protoplasm to post a load of crapola about places and people and things they know absolutely nothing about after which they could go "look mommy, I make post".

I've actually been to Detroit. In person. It's no different from anywhere else. And the Motown Museum is inspirational.

Say Biscuit --- how the fuck is a thread that offers no topic, no link, no nuttin', categorized as "Politics"?

You missed the best parts of Detroit. Unless of course you admire block after block of abandoned, dilapidated, burned out homes, apartments, etc.

Parts of the downtown area, around the sports venues, Greek Town and whatnot are okay but you don't want to venture too far from those places if you've got a brain.

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

what went wrong with America?

We put blacks in positions of power in cities across America, like Detroit. We initiated diversity in the workplace through affirmative action.

 

[Pogo]

what went wrong with America?

It got internet and invited clueless wastes of human protoplasm to post a load of crapola about places and people and things they know absolutely nothing about after which they could go "look mommy, I make post".

I've actually been to Detroit. In person. It's no different from anywhere else. And the Motown Museum is inspirational.

Say Biscuit --- how the fuck is a thread that offers no topic, no link, no nuttin', categorized as "Politics"?

You missed the best parts of Detroit. Unless of course you admire block after block of abandoned, dilapidated, burned out homes, apartments, etc.

Parts of the downtown area, around the sports venues, Greek Town and whatnot are okay but you don't want to venture too far from those places if you've got a brain.

Actually I put a wrong address into my GPS there and ended up wandering in a residential neighborhood. Whatever. I've been in many many a city before, around the states and abroad. I saw nothing about Detroit to distinguish it from most other cities with the exception of the sky. One typical of a northern latitude.

That was it. The sky. To read these pages one would expect to have to wear kevlar and take an armed escort. The rhetoric on this site is built on hallucination. Or in the case of the OP of this thread, abject absence of any contextual data at all.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

It got internet and invited clueless wastes of human protoplasm to post a load of crapola about places and people and things they know absolutely nothing about

Thanks for speaking from the heart.

The voice of experience is always welcome here.

 

[Moonglow]

what went wrong with America?

Foreign trade..

 

[saveliberty]

It was a combination of greed from unions and manufacturers. They built an unsustainable partnership that resulted in a predictable end.

 

[AsianTrumpSupporter]

what went wrong with America?

Leftism/Collectivism

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

what went wrong with America?

Unions

Almost everything wrong with that city & others like it can be boiled down to the unions.

 

[Pogo]

It got internet and invited clueless wastes of human protoplasm to post a load of crapola about places and people and things they know absolutely nothing about

Thanks for speaking from the heart.

The voice of experience is always welcome here.

You're welcome, but you quoted the wrong post. And edited it too. See 7.

And read the whole thing. It's a single post, not a frickin' Chinese buffet.

 

[Pogo]

what went wrong with America?

Unions

Almost everything wrong with that city & others like it can be boiled down to the unions.

Okay.... and why did unions develop?

 

[basquebromance]

what happened in Detroit is the stuff of an epic movie plot. the once-bustling metropolis with the nation's highest per capita income has since faded into a ghost town.

america's manufacturing decline in the 70s hit Detroit hard, and what did they do? they raised taxes. because when folks are strapped for cash, they can totally afford to feed more of it to the government.

60 percent of the population fled, and the hulking city government continued to swell. today, 35 percent of Detroit are in food stamps, and 40 percent are in poverty.

detroit today looks like a horror movie set. abandoned homes with broken windows, many of which were once Victorian mansions. former luxury car factories have been stripped of their copper wire and now house squatting criminals and junkies.

if you've never taken a virtual tour of detroit on google maps' street view, do it. NOW. it's seriously creepy.

 

[Pogo]

Detroit is no "ghost town", kkklown. Unless "ghost towns" come with massive traffic jams like I saw. Maybe they were "ghost cars"? Oh the irony --- ghost cars, in Detroit..

Tell ya what, since all you have to base on is your own cherrypicked internet, get off your ass and actually go there so you have some clue wtf you're talking about. What a concept huh Sprinkles?

 

[basquebromance]

Detroit is no "ghost town", kkklown. Unless "ghost towns" come with massive traffic jams like I saw. Maybe they were "ghost cars"? Oh the irony --- ghost cars, in Detroit..

Tell ya what, since all you have to base on is your own cherrypicked internet, get off your ass and actually go there so you have some clue wtf you're talking about. What a concept huh Sprinkles?

i've been to Detroit. i'll never be back.

 

[I amso IR]

They have an airport and tho older, airplanes come and go at regular intervals. They have Tigers and Lions and stuff like that! I cannot state for fact, but assume they have decent housing, hospitals and the best gunshot wound treatment facilities available. Not knowing Detroit, like Chicago, I assume they have their own "south side" but so does Hollywood, LA, New York, and so on. Detroit seems fine for me while I was there. I live in the Midwest and we have a lot of folks from Detroit who comment on my Tiger hat. They seem to be decent, hard working folks who still go home for the holidays in spite of the weather.?????