Hi,
My wife and I were there three years ago and saw a good bit about what the author is talking about.
Just terrible,
5412
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Subject: Fw: Quite an article on Detroit
From: Subject: Fw: Quite an article on Detroit
Subject: Quite an article on Detroit
This is a little bit of reading but worth the effort. The following
email adds more to the subject.
By Frosty Wooldridge
For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit ,
Michigan . watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun
play, rugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity.. I
watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on
buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere !
Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it and ignored it. Tens
of thousands and then, hundreds of thousands today exist on federal
welfare, free housing and food stamps !
With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10 and
in one case, one woman birthed 24 kids as reported by the Detroit Free
Press-all on American taxpayer dollars.
A new child meant a new car payment, new TV and whatever mom wanted. I
saw Lyndon Baines
Johnson's "Great Society" flourish in Detroit . If you give money for
doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing
nothing.
Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America ,
outside of Richard Daley in Chicago , rode Detroit down to its knees.
He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence and arrogance. As a
black man, he said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant 'in charge'. You can
figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67
percent African-Americans.
As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math
and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a
new life in another city or state.
Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the
same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much
so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000
throughout Michigan , but most work in Detroit . As the whites moved
out, the Muslims moved in.
As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful
Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting
that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You
could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife !
Detroit may be one our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike
and total separation from America .
Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new
American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid
for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76
percent last June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms
resemble more foreign countries than America . English ? Few speak it !
The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.
Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the
city. In this week's Time Magazine October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of
Detroit: How a great city fell and how it can rise again," I choked on
the writer's description of what happened. "If Detroit had been savaged
by a hurricane and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more
about it," said Daniel Okrent. "If drought and carelessness had spread
brush fires across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every
night.
Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it - if natural disaster had devastated
the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the
rest of the country might take notice.
But Detroit , once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping
rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow
unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country. Even
the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature
industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the
people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their
dreadful decision-making."
As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount
of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kick backs and
illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death
from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people
out of every sector of decaying Detroit "By any quantifiable standard,
the city is on life support. Detroit 's treasury is $300 million short
of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services," Okrent
said. "The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the
teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to
build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership.
The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three
years after Katrina devastated New Orleans , unemployment in that city
hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit , the unemployment rate is 28.9%.
That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent." At the end
of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit , he
said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great
city's collapse. It's also about the erosion of the industries that
helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit
will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century. If
what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has
been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past ?
And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that say about our
future ?"
As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book, "$20 Per
Gallon", the auto industry won't come back.. Immigration will keep
pouring more and more uneducated third world immigrants from the
Middle East into Detroit - thus creating a beachhead for Islamic
hegemony in America . If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see
more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit
. Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.
You have already seen it in Madrid , Spain ; London , England and
Paris , France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As
their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia
Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment
rights and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder.
We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and
brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and
wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any
other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a
perfect method to kill our language, culture, country and way of life.
I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DONT ALL STAND UP
AND SCREAM !!!! AT WASHINGTON AND OUR CITY LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS
AMERICA . IF YOU FOLLOW THE NEWS AT ALL YOU KNOW THIS HAS HAPPENED IN
ENGLAND AND FRANCE AND SPAIN .
IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO
FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I'M SORRY, I DONT KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE
FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT
