Really Path?
And what personal experience of living in Detroit do you have to point all this out? I've got 25 years under my belt. Life experiences from 1969 to 1994. I'll even shave off 6 of those years and go from when I first really stared noticing things at 6 years old. You got that kind of personal experience there?
Anyone else?
Yes in the 1900 many auto companies were outside of Detroit. What percentage of them outside Detroit made it to the roaring twenties? What percentage made it past the depression? With the factories in one general area, it was more cost efficient to build in Detroit for three to five companies under each big three listing. Less overhead, more profit, more cusion to undercut the in country competition.
The Big Three own Detroit. You complain about the unions screwing up Detroit, how about when Henry Ford built his Model T factory in Highland Park.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=highland+park+mi&hl=en&hnear=Highland+Park,+Wayne,+Michigan&gl=us&t=h&z=13&vpsrc=0 He build all these apartments and houses for his worker's and would have his "Jack booted thugs" go into each one of them on a scheduled basis in search of boose or anything else he felt "unsavory" or "morally corrupt". If they found it, the worker was fired and the family immediately eivicted! This mentality caused the creation of unions in the first place. And this is coming from a guy that's never worked for a union in his entire life!
Detroit failed due to the arrogance of the politicians thinking nothing could ever change the situation
Wrong.
Detroit became what it is because Mayor Colman A. Young did have a vision to change it... into a wierd hybrid of his own country and reservation. Government money would come in and he would use it anyway he deemed right. He built up a strong machine to get the most money for him and his friends while keeping the areas where the Big Three kept their buildings safe. Everything else didn't matter to him.
Mayor Young ran Detroit like the mafia. Don't like it? Pttthp! Bang! Nobody of importance ran against him, until Archer back in 92 or 93. Throw in the stagflation of the seventies, Chrystler's bankrupsty in the early eighties, near bankruptsy in the mid eighties, more annd more market share lost to imports, lack of letting outsiders in due to a threat to Mayor Young's power, the whole Libtards vs. Conservaturds mentality... You get it yet?
Path's own words and viewpoints, which were said by many in the outer suburbs, were used as a rallying cry for Mayor Young. When things eroded, he just pointed to the conservative politicians and claimed that they were the reason why Detroit was falling. He'd state the conservatives wanted Detroit to fail and that they were doing their best to make it happen. And it was an easy sell. After all, most of the people living there were there before the riots and saw the discrimination first hand or, later on, heard it from their parents. There was still a lot of misguided anger and it was used as a tool to keep Young in power (and inheritants of his political machine in power today).
Now to answer Magoo.
What are you talking about??? Detroit is result of Liberals, Democrats and Unions soaking the Big Three for the last 5 years. Look at the taxes on housing, the first house that sold for $1 that made the papers everywhere paid $3000 in property taxes a year-FOR 1300 SQFT IN THE HOOD!
Forget increasing the police force, you need to arm the EMTs and civilians
First of all the big three don't buy or own those houses. Ordinary people do and they are the ones taxed. The big three get tax breaks on their buildings and more security than the average person.
Second, Did you check the back taxes on that house? Many people just let the taxes slide.
Third, to explain the "Police State" statement. You say arm the EMTs and the civillians. You forgot one thing. Getting the civilians to work together. You need a sense of community and that ain't there. It's street over street and groups over groups. Plus they don't want to be the ones to take that first step. It's much easier to get the police or national guard to do the dirty work any way. That's the mentality.
To reply to Tyler. Yes it was filmed in Detroit. That was in the upper warehouse/factory district along I-94. And anyone can just give up and say, "Nuke it." Let's see some real skills and see how to fix it.
And to Devzal. To survive Detroit is easy. Stay low. Stay quiet. Don't have kids. Keep inside. Use the busses to the suburbs if you don't have a car. And turn out the lights when the shooting starts.
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