Robert B. Reich: The Bankruptcy Of Detroit And The Division Of America

[dblack]

Reich is right up there with Smugman in my book.

 

[rightwinger]

Capitalists used up Detroit and then abandoned it

Total fucking bullshit.

Democrats and the UAW used up Detroit then abandoned it

The UAW and Democrats designed cars that would not sell and made investors rich instead of investing in an aging infrastructure?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Capitalists used up Detroit and then abandoned it

Total fucking bullshit.

Democrats and the UAW used up Detroit then abandoned it

BINGO
but as you see progressives like (Reich and wrongwhiner) also has no SHAME in LYING

Once you realize Progressives are nothing but pathological liars, it becomes so much easier to debate them

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Capitalists used up Detroit and then abandoned it

Total fucking bullshit.

Democrats and the UAW used up Detroit then abandoned it

The UAW and Democrats designed cars that would not sell and made investors rich instead of investing in an aging infrastructure?

Please call 911. You're concussed and babbling. Seek help immediately

 

[Stephanie]

Capitalists used up Detroit and then abandoned it

Total fucking bullshit.

Democrats and the UAW used up Detroit then abandoned it

BINGO
but as you see progressives like (Reich and wrongwhiner) also has no SHAME in LYING

Once you realize Progressives are nothing but pathological liars, it becomes so much easier to debate them

Take Obama as an example
Gawd I hope the people in this country has woken up to what happens when they ELECT these so called, Democrats... who are now nothing more but Socialist/commies

 

[The Rabbi]

Capitalists used up Detroit and then abandoned it

I had no idea Democrats were now called capitalists. Hint: which party has controlled the city for 50 years?

 

[Bfgrn]

His theory appears to be that people who moved away from the declining areas to the suburbs in another county should somehow be financially responsible for their former county, and since they are not writing checks to their former county they are racist.

So if your area is in decline and you're white, you're a racist if you do what's best for your family and move.

If you don't stay where you are and "share" the costs of public services with people whose skin color is darker than yours, you're a racist.

It's come to this, gang. This is how the PC Police thinks.

.

AGAIN? Such utter right wing bullshit. This a a problem ALL cities eventually face. What do WE, THE PEOPLE do?

Reich sheds a light on a who is WE, and asks some good questions. What I DON'T hear from any of you right wing turds are solutions or any ideas other than let them die.

Here is the part of Reich's article the OP omitted.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County — except for a small sign that tells you.

But boundaries can make all the difference. Had the official boundary been drawn differently to encompass both Oakland County and Detroit – creating, say, a "Greater Detroit" – Oakland County's more affluent citizens would have some responsibility to address Detroit's problems, and Detroit would likely have enough money to pay its bills and provide its residents with adequate public services.

But because Detroit's boundary surrounds only the poor inner city, those inside it have to deal with their compounded problems themselves. The whiter and more affluent suburbs (and the banks that serve them) are off the hook.

Any hint they should take some responsibility has invited righteous indignation. "Now, all of a sudden, they're having problems and they want to give part of the responsibility to the suburbs?" scoffed L. Brooks Paterson, the Oakland County executive. "They're not gonna talk me into being the good guy. 'Pick up your share?' Ha ha."

Buried within the bankruptcy of Detroit is a fundamental political and moral question: Who are "we," and what are our obligations to one another?

Are Detroit, its public employees, poor residents and bondholders the only ones who should sacrifice when Detroit proper can't pay its bills? Or does the relevant sphere of responsibility include Detroit's affluent suburbs — to which many of the city's wealthier resident fled as the city declined, along with the banks that serve them?

Judge Rhodes won't address these questions. But as Americans continue to segregate by income into places becoming either wealthier or poorer, the rest of us will have to answer questions like these, eventually.

Robert Reich is the former U.S. secretary of labor.

 

[The Rabbi]

His theory appears to be that people who moved away from the declining areas to the suburbs in another county should somehow be financially responsible for their former county, and since they are not writing checks to their former county they are racist.

So if your area is in decline and you're white, you're a racist if you do what's best for your family and move.

If you don't stay where you are and "share" the costs of public services with people whose skin color is darker than yours, you're a racist.

It's come to this, gang. This is how the PC Police thinks.

.

AGAIN? Such utter right wing bullshit. This a a problem ALL cities eventually face. What do WE, THE PEOPLE do?

Reich sheds a light on a who is WE, and asks some good questions. What I DON'T hear from any of you right wing turds are solutions or any ideas other than let them die.

.

All cities do not face that problem. Only cities that sell class warfare tax the rich bullshit face those problems. If Detroit had incorporated the whole county, everyone would have moved out of the county. It's really that simple.
You want to help people? Quit electing Democrats.

 

[Bfgrn]

His theory appears to be that people who moved away from the declining areas to the suburbs in another county should somehow be financially responsible for their former county, and since they are not writing checks to their former county they are racist.

So if your area is in decline and you're white, you're a racist if you do what's best for your family and move.

If you don't stay where you are and "share" the costs of public services with people whose skin color is darker than yours, you're a racist.

It's come to this, gang. This is how the PC Police thinks.

.

AGAIN? Such utter right wing bullshit. This a a problem ALL cities eventually face. What do WE, THE PEOPLE do?

Reich sheds a light on a who is WE, and asks some good questions. What I DON'T hear from any of you right wing turds are solutions or any ideas other than let them die.

.

All cities do not face that problem. Only cities that sell class warfare tax the rich bullshit face those problems. If Detroit had incorporated the whole county, everyone would have moved out of the county. It's really that simple.
You want to help people? Quit electing Democrats.

ALL cities face these problems...eventually. You are such a moron Rabbi. You really are a piece of human excrement. And I reluctantly use the term 'human'...

 

[Freemason9]

Tell us all, please, how "progressive policies" destroyed Detroit?

 

[Mac1958]

AGAIN? Such utter right wing bullshit. This a a problem ALL cities eventually face.

Thanks for the cut-and-paste, but what precisely was incorrect about my post?

And perhaps you can respond without personal attacks and name-calling, thanks.

.

 

[Bfgrn]

AGAIN? Such utter right wing bullshit. This a a problem ALL cities eventually face.

Thanks for the cut-and-paste, but what precisely was incorrect about my post?

And perhaps you can respond without personal attacks and name-calling, thanks.

.

This is not about pc.

 

[Mac1958]

AGAIN? Such utter right wing bullshit. This a a problem ALL cities eventually face.

Thanks for the cut-and-paste, but what precisely was incorrect about my post?

And perhaps you can respond without personal attacks and name-calling, thanks.

.

This is not about pc.

Oh, I see.

It's just about white people victimizing black people by moving to better areas.

The distinction is screamingly clear.

.

 

[Bfgrn]

His theory appears to be that people who moved away from the declining areas to the suburbs in another county should somehow be financially responsible for their former county, and since they are not writing checks to their former county they are racist.

So if your area is in decline and you're white, you're a racist if you do what's best for your family and move.

If you don't stay where you are and "share" the costs of public services with people whose skin color is darker than yours, you're a racist.

It's come to this, gang. This is how the PC Police thinks.

.

AGAIN? Such utter right wing bullshit. This a a problem ALL cities eventually face. What do WE, THE PEOPLE do?

Reich sheds a light on a who is WE, and asks some good questions. What I DON'T hear from any of you right wing turds are solutions or any ideas other than let them die.

.

All cities do not face that problem. Only cities that sell class warfare tax the rich bullshit face those problems. If Detroit had incorporated the whole county, everyone would have moved out of the county. It's really that simple.
You want to help people? Quit electing Democrats.

It no longer matters who the residents of Detroit vote for. They now live under the DICK-tator Rick Snyder. Who will privatize as much as possible to line the pockets of his corporate puppet masters.

Quit electing Democrats, so you can become subjects of King Richard...

The Republican Occupation of Detroit - The Daily Beast

 

[The Rabbi]

His theory appears to be that people who moved away from the declining areas to the suburbs in another county should somehow be financially responsible for their former county, and since they are not writing checks to their former county they are racist.

So if your area is in decline and you're white, you're a racist if you do what's best for your family and move.

If you don't stay where you are and "share" the costs of public services with people whose skin color is darker than yours, you're a racist.

It's come to this, gang. This is how the PC Police thinks.

.

AGAIN? Such utter right wing bullshit. This a a problem ALL cities eventually face. What do WE, THE PEOPLE do?

Reich sheds a light on a who is WE, and asks some good questions. What I DON'T hear from any of you right wing turds are solutions or any ideas other than let them die.

.

All cities do not face that problem. Only cities that sell class warfare tax the rich bullshit face those problems. If Detroit had incorporated the whole county, everyone would have moved out of the county. It's really that simple.
You want to help people? Quit electing Democrats.

It no longer matters who the residents of Detroit vote for. They now live under the DICK-tator Rick Snyder. Who will privatize as much as possible to line the pockets of his corporate puppet masters.

Quit electing Democrats, so you can become subjects of King Richard...

The Republican Occupation of Detroit - The Daily Beast

Because they fucked up royally and kept electing idiots. What right should they have to elect anyone? Now the GOP has to come in and clean up Dem mismanagament. The way it always is.

 

[The Rabbi]

His theory appears to be that people who moved away from the declining areas to the suburbs in another county should somehow be financially responsible for their former county, and since they are not writing checks to their former county they are racist.

So if your area is in decline and you're white, you're a racist if you do what's best for your family and move.

If you don't stay where you are and "share" the costs of public services with people whose skin color is darker than yours, you're a racist.

It's come to this, gang. This is how the PC Police thinks.

.

AGAIN? Such utter right wing bullshit. This a a problem ALL cities eventually face. What do WE, THE PEOPLE do?

Reich sheds a light on a who is WE, and asks some good questions. What I DON'T hear from any of you right wing turds are solutions or any ideas other than let them die.

.

All cities do not face that problem. Only cities that sell class warfare tax the rich bullshit face those problems. If Detroit had incorporated the whole county, everyone would have moved out of the county. It's really that simple.
You want to help people? Quit electing Democrats.

ALL cities face these problems...eventually. You are such a moron Rabbi. You really are a piece of human excrement. And I reluctantly use the term 'human'...

Please post all the cities that have faced these problems.
I'll start:
Pittsburgh. Saw declining industrial base in steel and attracted medical and education research business with active outread to those business and more pro-business policies.
Your turn, moron.

 

[Bfgrn]

AGAIN? Such utter right wing bullshit. This a a problem ALL cities eventually face.

Thanks for the cut-and-paste, but what precisely was incorrect about my post?

And perhaps you can respond without personal attacks and name-calling, thanks.

.

This is not about pc.

Oh, I see.

It's just about white people victimizing black people by moving to better areas.

The distinction is screamingly clear.

.

No, it's really about how do we solve this problem.

 

[g5000]

The wealthy whites abandoned the area when Obama policies indicated that the industrial power of America was over.

Bullshit. The middle and upper classes began abandoning Detroit long before anyone even heard of Obama.

Much of population movement was due to the superhighway system developed during the 60s and 70s which enabled people to live in the suburbs and work in the city.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Instead of yanno, just pointing at it and going "yucky" how about we do something about it to uplift the city again to bring back jobs, education and opportunity to that area?

....oorrr just point at it because that helps.

 

[The Rabbi]

AGAIN? Such utter right wing bullshit. This a a problem ALL cities eventually face.

Thanks for the cut-and-paste, but what precisely was incorrect about my post?

And perhaps you can respond without personal attacks and name-calling, thanks.

.

This is not about pc.

Oh, I see.

It's just about white people victimizing black people by moving to better areas.

The distinction is screamingly clear.

.

No, it's really about how do we solve this problem.

And it's a punt!