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Title: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: zeitgeist on November 28, 2012, 06:29:57 PM: The comment section is a better read than the article.

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State Senator Proposes Dissolving City Of Detroit
November 28, 2012 11:08 AM
.LANSING (CBS Detroit) - It would no doubt be controversial, but the idea of dissolving the fiscally struggling city of Detroit and absorbing it into Wayne County is being tossed around in Lansing.

WWJ Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick reports some state Republicans are talking about giving the city the option to vote itself into bankruptcy. And mid-Michigan Senator Rick Jones said all options should be considered â€” including dissolving the city.
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Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: Undies on November 28, 2012, 06:41:05 PM: I get this mental visual of Detroit being plopped in a glass of water like an Alka-Seltzer and dissolving in a morass of fizzy bubbles.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: zeitgeist on November 28, 2012, 06:59:01 PM: Quote from: Undies on November 28, 2012, 06:41:05 PM
I get this mental visual of Detroit being plopped in a glass of water like an Alka-Seltzer and dissolving in a morass of fizzy bubbles.

Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is. Speedy's commercials were the best. :hi5:

I did notice a bit in the article about unpaid furlough days.
Happy Holidays Detroit Union Workers
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: Dori on November 28, 2012, 07:10:46 PM: How would disolving it into the county work? Who's going to come up with the short end of that stick?
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: DefiantSix on November 28, 2012, 09:14:17 PM: Quote from: Dori on November 28, 2012, 07:10:46 PM
How would disolving it into the county work? Who's going to come up with the short end of that stick?

Who do you think? Wayne county, of course. :thatsright:
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: wasp69 on November 28, 2012, 10:22:08 PM: Ummm... Link?
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: thundley4 on November 28, 2012, 10:31:10 PM: Quote from: wasp69 on November 28, 2012, 10:22:08 PM
Ummm... Link?

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/11/28/state-senator-proposes-dissolving-city-of-detroit/
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: NHSparky on November 29, 2012, 08:06:55 AM: Nah, let it go into bankruptcy...biggest city ever to file.

A nice start to Part II of the Obamanation.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: zeitgeist on November 29, 2012, 10:23:15 AM: Quote from: wasp69 on November 28, 2012, 10:22:08 PM
Ummm... Link?

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/11/28/state-senator-proposes-dissolving-city-of-detroit

I hate when that happens. :banghead: Thanks thundley4 I was asleep at the switch.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: CG6468 on November 29, 2012, 10:44:56 AM: Buh-bye, once great metropolis.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: JohnnyReb on November 29, 2012, 10:48:51 AM: I saw what I thought was a Detroit Thanksgiving Day parade on TV.....I guess it was more of a "Going Away" parade.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: Dori on November 29, 2012, 10:55:28 AM: Quote from: DefiantSix on November 28, 2012, 09:14:17 PM
Who do you think? Wayne county, of course. :thatsright:

What I meant was, do they have to absorb it?
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: DefiantSix on November 29, 2012, 11:37:06 AM: Quote from: Dori on November 29, 2012, 10:55:28 AM
What I meant was, do they have to absorb it?

Yup. All those welfare burdens which were once the responsibility of the City of Detroit, will devolve upon the shoulders of Wayne County, Michigan.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: Dori on November 29, 2012, 11:40:52 AM: Quote from: DefiantSix on November 29, 2012, 11:37:06 AM
Yup. All those welfare burdens which were once the responsibility of the City of Detroit, will devolve upon the shoulders of Wayne County, Michigan.

Ug...as someone who lives in Los Angeles County, that's a scary thought.

Calif has already had four cities go belly-up recently, more to come I'm sure.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: thundley4 on November 29, 2012, 11:41:42 AM: Quote from: DefiantSix on November 29, 2012, 11:37:06 AM
Yup. All those welfare burdens which were once the responsibility of the City of Detroit, will devolve upon the shoulders of Wayne County, Michigan.

so the infection will spread outward.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: DefiantSix on November 29, 2012, 11:50:07 AM: Quote from: thundley4 on November 29, 2012, 11:41:42 AM
so the infection will spread outward.

Why do you think they call the virus "Progressivism"?
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: thundley4 on November 29, 2012, 11:58:34 AM: Quote from: DefiantSix on November 29, 2012, 11:50:07 AM
Why do you think they call the virus "Progressivism"?

This really is a case that calls for nuking it from high orbit.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: Eupher on November 29, 2012, 12:09:03 PM: Dissolving the city of Detroit changes nothing.

The burned out wrecks of crack houses still remain.

Corruption, graft and greed still characterize the Detroit political class.

Normal folks still resort to vigilantism since the cops are nowhere to be found.

All this would do is spread the pile of shit that is Detroit into the rest of Wayne County, which is considerably bigger than Detroit itself.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: Wineslob on November 29, 2012, 12:09:19 PM: Detroit: the turd that keeps on circling..................for over 30 years now.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: JohnnyReb on November 29, 2012, 12:13:39 PM: Quote from: thundley4 on November 29, 2012, 11:58:34 AM
This really is a case that calls for nuking it from high orbit.

Well, the city would recover sooner that way.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: BlueStateSaint on November 29, 2012, 01:24:40 PM: Quote from: thundley4 on November 29, 2012, 11:58:34 AM
This really is a case that calls for nuking it from high orbit.

It is the only way to be sure. :whistling:
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: Dori on November 29, 2012, 01:30:22 PM: I don't know the demographics, but isn't Detroit mostly Muslim now?
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: thundley4 on November 29, 2012, 01:31:13 PM: Quote from: Dori on November 29, 2012, 01:30:22 PM
I don't know the demographics, but isn't Detroit mostly Muslim now?

That's Dearbornistan, I think.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: NHSparky on November 29, 2012, 01:39:27 PM: Quote from: DefiantSix on November 29, 2012, 11:50:07 AM
Why do you think they call the virus "Progressivism"?

(http://sunglasses.zomazi.com/wp-content/uploads/agent-smith.jpg)

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify you and I realized that you're not actually human. Every human on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you liberals do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Liberals are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: NHSparky on November 29, 2012, 01:39:47 PM: Quote from: JohnnyReb on November 29, 2012, 12:13:39 PM
Well, the city would recover sooner that way.

Hiroshima did.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: Eupher on November 29, 2012, 01:54:03 PM: Quote from: Dori on November 29, 2012, 01:30:22 PM
I don't know the demographics, but isn't Detroit mostly Muslim now?

The largest concentrated population of Muslims in the U.S. is in Dearborn, which is a suburb of Detroit located in the southwest portion of the metro area -- not Detroit itself. Thirty percent of the population of Dearborn (98K) is muzzie. Other large centers of muzzies are located in Sterling Heights, Michigan and Warren, Michigan which are also suburbs located in the northern part of the metro Detroit area.

The muzzies spill over into Detroit though, that's for sure, but Detroit remains mostly poor blacks with a few pockets of relatively well-off people who somehow have it in their minds that Detroit will make some kind of comeback.

:mental:
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: CG6468 on November 29, 2012, 02:37:11 PM: That entire section of muzzieville should be nuked. No more cities, towns, muzzies, and unfathomable dimbo debt.
Title: Re: Detroit circling bowl
Post by: rustybayonet on November 29, 2012, 03:05:30 PM: Quote from: NHSparky on November 29, 2012, 08:06:55 AM
Nah, let it go into bankruptcy...biggest city ever to file.

A nice start to Part II of the Obamanation.

Born and raised in a northern suburb of Detroit - moved from there in 1985 and have not regretted since, still enjoy visiting upper Michigan [ above US10] and the upper penisula ---

New York City came close and somewhat for the same reason;

see search --- "History of New York City [1946-1977] --in Wikipedia ------ near end of article
or go to;

http.//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City_(1946%E2%80%931977)

....... US economic stagnation in the 1970s hit New York City particularly hard, as trading on the New York Stock Exchange fell while the city's welfare spending continued. The city neared bankruptcy during the administration of Mayor Abraham Beame but avoided that fate with the aid of a large federal loan. A statement by Mayor Beame was drafted and ready to be released on October 17, 1975, if the teachers' union did not invest $150 million from its pension funds in city securities. "I have been advised by the comptroller that the City of New York has insufficient cash on hand to meet debt obligations due today," the statement said. "This constitutes the default that we have struggled to avoid."[8] The Beame statement was never distributed because Albert Shanker, the teachers' union president, finally furnished $150 million from the union's pension fund to buy Municipal Assistance Corporation bonds. Two weeks later, President Gerald R. Ford angered many New Yorkers by refusing to grant the city a bailout, a decision famously summarized by the New York Daily News headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead."

Think it could happen in Detroit, with this administration?