Allow liberals and socialists to be in control of something long enough and it will collapse.
Take Detroit…
No really…You can have it…PLEASE take it.
Detroit has been in the hand of socialists since 1961. 52 years of socialist mayors elected to office by socialists and paid for by socialist unions.
It’s over.
At least it darn well should be.
Michigan Governor, Rick Snyder declared Detroit to be in a state of financial emergency last Friday and that helps to clear the way for the STATE to take over DETROIT’S financial situation and appoint a special or, emergency, city manager to start the proves of straightening out the disaster that IS Detroit.
Now, to give you a glimpse into the mindset of socialists, their minds warped by 15 or more years of public school indoctrination…some having possibly attended asylums of HIGHER indoctrination…
As Governor Snyder made his announcement, about 2 miles away at the scene of the crime, Detroit’s City Hall…
PROTESTERS gathered to chant…
SNYDER GO HOME!!! THIS IS A TAKEOVER!!! SNYDER GO HOME!!! THIS IS A TAKEOVER!!!
You see, Governor Rick Snyder is one of…”THEM!!!”
He’s a…REPUBLICAN” and in Detroit, or what’s left OF it…Snyder isn’t wanted.
Let’s just see how bad things are and whether or not something needs to be DONE in Detroit.
This year, Detroit, under the socialist Mayoral leadership of David Bing, is racking up a $327 million dollar deficit but, that’s just the tip of iceberg.
Detroit’s total DEBT…After 52 years of socialist leadership is a staggering !14 BILLION dollars.
This is a CITY we’re talking about here not a STATE…A CITY that is $14 BILLION in the hole and if that’s not enough…Detroit has what’s called a “CASH FLOW” problem.
Allow me to explain how that works.
Last year, the cash flow problem reach a point where Detroit could no longer afford to keep street lights on at night so, they shut off nearly half of them…Leaving neighborhoods…IN THE DARK.
Detroit’s cash flow problem has reached a point where they can no longer afford as many cops as they need and certain neighborhoods have simply had to…do without.
As crime rose and darkness fell across sections of the Motor City, residents in those neighborhoods were strongly encouraged to move to neighborhoods where cops were on the streets and those streets were lit at night.
Another BIG part of the cash flow problem and the reason that problem exists is that, over the last 30 years or so, Detroit has seen its population dwindle. Once the 5th largest city in the nation it is now 18th and of the 700,000 or so people left, even THEY are moving out.
Retirees don’t want to live there and young families don’t want their children growing UP there so…Detroit is losing population from both ends of the demographic scale.
There are abandoned and crumbling factories. Abandoned and crumbling homes…huge sections of a once populated city now razed. Crime is up. Violent crime is up.
Tax revenue, like the Detroit population continues to fall…and fall…and fall.
Motor City, home of the nation’s once proud auto industry is now a shell of its former self and one of the reasons for that IS a once proud and union run (into the ground) auto industry. Now, with more retired auto workers than working auto workers, pensions exceed payroll and that’s not a recipe for success or future prosperity.
Detroit, as a city, is spending more on city workers and government than they can raise through tax revenue and the higher they raise the taxes, the more taxpayers flee for greener pastures.
Currently, of those left IN Detroit, 32.5 % are living below poverty level. They are not paying any taxes at all.
Think of that.
1 out of 3 residents of Detroit are below poverty level.
With a population of 700,000…Some 231,000 are below the poverty line.
Given all of this, the deficit, the $14 BILLION dollar debt, the shrinking population, rising crime, poverty…
As a REPUBLICAN Governor announces his plan to declare an emergency management team for the decaying city…PROTESTERS show up and chant, “SNYDER GO HOME!!!”
They are delusional.
They are socialists.
Pardon the redundancy.
As a microcosm, Detroit is today what America is heading for.
There is no way to spend one’s way to prosperity and likewise, no way to tax one’s way there either.
The only way to get out of the hole is through economic growth. Spend less, grow the base, allow business owners to expand and create jobs which, in turn, expands the base more and creates more revenue.
In Detroit…Standing in the way of such measures are the socialists unions. They refuse to cut their pension programs to reflect reality.
According to Eric Lupher, Michigan’s director of local affairs for the Citizens Research Council, “The city could stop doing all of its current operations today — no more police and fire, no more garbage collection, no more street lights — and the city would still have billions of dollars of debt and promises made for future payments that it would have to pay.”
Socialist city government and over the years, corrupt socialist government entities in Detroit who have engaged in graft, bribery, theft and general socialist principles of tax and spend, spend, spend.
But those are exactly the things these delusional protesters want MORE of and the exact reason that, without the State “takeover” they try to shout down, Detroit will continue to become a bottomless cesspool of debt and decline.
For those socialist protesters, those whose ideology outweighs their common sense…Those who will claim that Detroit is some sort of abnormality when it comes to such things…Consider this:
The top 10 poorest cities in America, those with the highest percentage of their population (populations over 250,000) living under the poverty level all have one thing in common.
All…ALL are run by liberals.
Detroit, MI (1st on the list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961.
Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1954.
Cincinnati, OH (3rd) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1984.
Cleveland, OH (4th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1989.
Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor.
St. Louis, MO (6th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1949.
El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor.
Milwaukee, WI (8th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1908.
Philadelphia, PA (9th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1952.
Newark, NJ (10th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1907.
Detroit will almost HAVE to file for bankruptcy and then, restructure its pension system to even START the rebounding process and it’s going to mean substantial restructuring of EXISTING union pensions.
Take the case of Sandra Brunson w
ho, after 35 years on the Detroit police force, recently retired and…MOVED AWAY FROM DETROIT because she says, “I didn’t feel safe. I lived in a gated community in Detroit the last five years, and I was scared before getting to the gate.”
Balancing the books in Detroit is one thing but, it does nothing to deal with billions of dollars of promised payouts to city workers who have retired or who have existing pension deals.
Just wait until austerity hits 8 Mile and Detroit’s socialists are told they have to make do with only a portion of what they’ve been promised. They’ll burn down what little is left of their ruined city as they will be unwilling to settle for something over nothing at all.
Such is the way of socialism.
As Margaret Thatcher so pointedly observed:
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
Pain and suffering are, unfortunately, two of the greatest teachers…….
I have been calling for Detroit to be bulldozed for years.
It is a place where greed and thieves breed only greed and thieves.
It is disgusting. The Unions sucked Detroit bloodless. Anything that was good about working hard and having enough is gone. Ah, but I am one of the Mid-West Work Ethical. This VALUE is worthless today. And I have a strong fighting spirit and I am worn out. I am not complaining at all but making a statement of fact. I am used up and I am not alone.
Pride in one’s work is what makes me tick. But what is the sense now? The mouse ran up the clock and knocked in the head by mobs of angry evil demons of the deadliest sins…..ticktock time to blow up the block.
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I moved not too far from Detroit. I moved from the Hudson Valley in New York. I lived in NY for over 25 years. My oldest son and his family were the last of my children to leave NY in 2006. The reasons varied.
And under duress I moved in late 2009. I knew Detroit in fact the entire state was/is depressed but nothing prepared me for what I saw and felt when I drove around to see where I had come to. I cried. The devastation was and is palpable. Car jacking and murders on a daily basis. I moved to a town not too far from the city limits and the zombies came out in the daytime…Me a kid who grew up in Chicago-Lived in New York was freaked.
I also lived not too far from Dearborn-istan where throwing rocks and bottles at Christians is for sport…that is another story. Or is it?!! I personally believe it is part of the plan to make this area Mecca II. Oh no, I am not kidding. These folks taught me about how Islamofascism works. I had no prejudice before this. And yes, everyone is on Welfare. That is part of the bloodsucking. Down right Zombie-Style Creepy.
I had a break for nearly 2 years and moved to Naples, Florida. Home of the pretentious rich. Good for them but I despise pretension rich or poor—Mid- Westerner in me I suppose… But another major job loss for none other of being a drag on the bank statement for the company to secure another loan for another store. It is financially feasible to let go of an aging worker just short of retirement who works just as hard if not harder than that person half the age but is paid too much. Hire a younger inexperienced human being who does not yet know their value….Great Economics but as I stated above the Ethical work culture is gone so why even try anymore.
More to the point how can I not. It is in my blood and marrow exactly as the breath and spirit of this country lives in the heart of every true Blue-blooded American.
FYI I am a white collar defect. I like callouses on my hands and the tightness in my lower back from working hard. Good chance I may be back in Florida hopefully with my oldest son and his family—without showing alarm I am insisting they come along as I am terrified to leave them here. But this time farther north where the farmers and agriculture is thriving. Paradise for me is sharing in mutual respect and the honor of being close to the land. I am the New American Hobo.
Thanks Craig. Guess this one hit a nerve.
Yeah time to bulldoze that place otherwise I would bet that hearing the call to prayer 5 times a day is to become mandatory.
And they still blame conservatives. SMH. Useful idiots they are indeed. They want the government to run the auto industry and every other industry in this country so they can keep their unions, cushy working hours, exorbitant pay, and unsustainable pensions. They are unable to grasp the concept of why it doesn’t work even when it’s staring them in the face. Well, my friends, guess what? The radical Islamists are probably already on their way. They’ll do to Detroit what they’ve done in Dearborn, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, and throughout the Middle East — TAKE OVER. They’ll burn your churches, rape your women, and enforce Sharia Law. Barackwards Obamunist will do as much for the people of Detroit as he did for Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi. You’re getting exactly what you voted for, but not all is lost. You can always call 9-11 from your Obamaphone!!! You’ll also to be happy to know FEMA has a stockpile of coffin liners, and a private Obamunist Army waiting for word to march into action to keep looters out. Pray you don’t look like a terrorist or looter – the government has drones, you know. They’ll be joined by DHS with their 1.25 Billion hollow points, high capacity magazines, and armed tanks ready to rain on your parade. Glenn Beck and Alex Jones will narrate the event. 😉
It is a tragedy what has become of this once thriving city. The leaders of Detroit and community activists have made effective use of the US vs. THEM tactic, but by leveraging the future of the city and its people beyond redemption, they have become their own worst enemy.