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Offline franksolich

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primitives discuss Detroit
« on: October 08, 2009, 12:52:44 PM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6727253

Oh my.

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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts)     Thu Oct-08-09 01:40 PM
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IF YOU LIVE IN DETROIT, Please tell us what you are seeing take place there...

... I keep reading horror stories about a major American city, but the MSM seems to be ignoring the problems there.

Are things getting better/worse?

What are you seeing? And what is likely to happen next?

Just the blip 35,000 people, in lines blocks long, show up to apply for 3,500 slots providing financial help with their utility bills. ANd now reports of violence and injuries...

Wish I had a link, but I heard reported on TV that the average cost of a home inside the city limits of Detroit had fallen to approximately $17,000.

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Craftsman (683 posts)      Thu Oct-08-09 01:44 PM
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1. My wife has a friend who lives inteh burb of Detriot

From what I have gathered it is bleak. She a few years ago complained of a rooster in the neighborhood, now she has a small chicken coop in her yard and eats lots of eggs.

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Barack_America  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-08-09 01:45 PM
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2. The 'burbs are very different from the city.

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NYC_SKP  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-08-09 01:47 PM
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3. Here's a link to an article. Found it on Twitter.

Twitter is perfect for this sort of thing, real time news.

I searched twitter for "Detroit Utility Bills"

http://michiganmessenger.com/27807/violence-erupts-at-d...

When thousands of people looking to get housing and utility bill assistance assistance from the City of Detroit showed up at Cobo Hall Wednesday morning, chaos ensued. By 11:30 am, Mayor Dave Bing’s office was urging Detroiters not to go to Cobo Hall because the crowd was getting out of control.

The Detroit Police gang squad was called to respond as the situation started to become violent, with some people fainting, the Detroit Free Press reports.

The event’s turnout perhaps is a grave indicator of how badly Detroit residents are struggling to secure dependable housing pay their power bills this winter, as the city’s unemployment rate is hovering near 25 percent.

The event was sponsored by the city’s Planning and Development Department to pass out 5,000 applications for those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to get assistance for the winter.

Well, yeah, we've got to do something about that evil Republican party machine that's run Detroit for decades, generations.
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Re: primitives discuss Detroit
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2009, 02:28:59 PM »
Detroit, the end product of a system where the people receiving unearned entitlements from the Government reach a high enough percentage of the population that they gain effective control.
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Re: primitives discuss Detroit
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2009, 02:37:54 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on October 08, 2009, 02:28:59 PM
Detroit, the end product of a system where the people receiving unearned entitlements from the Government reach a high enough percentage of the population that they gain effective control.

Detroit was an early testing ground of the methods to be used in California, and then the rest of the US?
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Re: primitives discuss Detroit
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2009, 02:46:30 PM »
Detroit gives us the first clear picture of the jug-eared muslim's "post-racial America".
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Re: primitives discuss Detroit
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2009, 03:19:45 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on October 08, 2009, 02:28:59 PM
Detroit, the end product of a system where the people receiving unearned entitlements from the Government reach a high enough percentage of the population that they gain effective control.

Detroit has tens of thousands of abandoned houses, how come they have homeless people?? Sure they all need torn down and the city doesn't have the cash to even bury their dead so what to do what to do?

maybe get a job? but they ran those off with high taxes and regulations
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Re: primitives discuss Detroit
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2009, 04:34:13 PM »
A fine example of the coming communist utopia. The jug eared, communist, muslim from Kenya can point to it with pride.
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Re: primitives discuss Detroit
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2009, 08:20:04 PM »
I guess the leftist leaders of Detroit were not the right guys to make socialism work either.
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