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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mr Mannn on December 05, 2013, 07:04:15 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4134138
74 replies, pretty bug bonfire. Lots of hooting and arm waggling.
The OP: Just a snippet, lots of hot air with this one.
Detroit Is Beta-Test of the GOP Plan To Sell The Federal Government to Corporations
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On Thursday, the first beta-test of selling off a city to corporations began in earnest when an emergency manager in Detroit filed for bankruptcy, and it is a harbinger of the Republicans’ plan for the federal government.
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What Detroit is experiencing is the Bain Capital vulture capitalist tactic of taking over a company, leveraging it with debt, declaring bankruptcy, and selling off assets and firing union employees all while turning a profit.
Michigan governor Rick Snyder (Boo Hiss) followed Bain’s tactics in appointing his cohort to lead the city, disband the government, and create conditions allowing the emergency manager to declare the city bankrupt to sell off assets allegedly to satisfy creditors.
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“The whole foundation that brings him here is false. We do not have a $15 billion or a $20 billion debt problem. We have less than a $2 billion short-term debt problem that we could manage if we just went out and collected revenues that are owed to the city; stop giving tax abatement to people who can actually afford to pay taxes.â€
"Your Jedi mind tricks do not work on me, silly OP"
Star Member longship (21,063 posts)
2. A Robocop future.
That's my hometown. I love Detroit. But decades of flight to the suburbs, the big three's near total abandonment of the area, and decades of corruption have left Detroit an empty hull of a city.
The city of my youth, with nearly 2,000,000 residents, now has about 600,000. There are tens of thousands of empty abandoned houses, the infrastructure has crumbled, the city services which reliably served nearly two million in my youth cannot keep up with the much less than half that remain.
And the bankruptcy people want to sell the city's treasures to pay the corporations.
I cry for my home town.
Historic NY (20,798 posts)
9. The cities assets belong to the taxpayers..........
they should decide by Public Referendum
UpTwinkles! Up Twinkles!
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Response to WillyT (Original post)
Thu Dec 5, 2013, 06:53 PM
DeSwiss (20,009 posts)
70. Now you see why I say that REVOLUTION is the only answer. You'll be on the front line, won't you, DUmbass? Ya, right.
The paradigm doesn't work and they know it. It never could work. It's all smoke and mirrors. It's debt-slavery.
They've taken OUR planet and it's resources and what they haven't stolen they've ****ed up.
It's time to turn the tables. It's time to open the cells and let the slaves out and put the (former) masters in.
- We still have a choice now, but the window is closing fast.
Here's what it boils down to.
:ownit:
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Response to WillyT (Original post)
Thu Dec 5, 2013, 06:53 PM
DeSwiss (20,009 posts)
70. Now you see why I say that REVOLUTION is the only answer. You'll be on the front line, won't you, DUmbass? Ya, right.
The paradigm doesn't work and they know it. It never could work. It's all smoke and mirrors. It's debt-slavery.
They've taken OUR planet and it's resources and what they haven't stolen they've ****ed up.
It's time to turn the tables. It's time to open the cells and let the slaves out and put the (former) masters in.
Considering your moocher ass is a looter enabler, I don't think you really want this to happen, DUmmie.
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The paradigm doesn't work and they know it. It never could work. It's all smoke and mirrors. It's debt-slavery.
Hey buddy, better becareful...that's what Sarah Palin said and it caused Martin Bashir to want to poop in her mouth.
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Hey buddy, better becareful...that's what Sarah Palin said and it caused Martin Bashir to want to poop in her mouth.
I think his desires had a much more carnal motivation.
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Hey buddy, better becareful...that's what Sarah Palin said and it caused Martin Bashir to want to poop in her mouth
Lady,
You're good.
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I counted my pocket change....I bid $2.53 for the whole city.
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You would be over paying.
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I counted my pocket change....I bid $2.53 for the whole city.
Hell, you'd have to pay me a billion to take it.
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I counted my pocket change....I bid $2.53 for the whole city.
Chinese investors have already bought up blocks of real estate there. I wonder what they have planned.
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Chinese investors have already bought up blocks of real estate there. I wonder what they have planned.
Sweat shops or, perhaps some sort of organ harvesting operation.
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Sweat shops or, perhaps some sort of organ harvesting operation.
Rat-milking farms.
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A Rethuglican congress critter made the suggestion to not tax the workers or companies in Detroit so that they would all have more money to reinvest in the city.
That might actually work and attract more businesses and jobs to go there and rebuild it.
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A Rethuglican congress critter made the suggestion to not tax the workers or companies in Detroit so that they would all have more money to reinvest in the city.
That might actually work and attract more businesses and jobs to go there and rebuild it.
Wouldn't work. The cash will be needed to buy cACA insurance.
If they didn't, Obambi will fine them for the full amount.
It's a lose-lose deal.
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Detroit is the scorpion and any investor that goes in to Detroit is the frog.
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Rat-milking farms.
You get more from cats...
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