Detroit Goes Bust

[cwo_ghwebb]

The City of Detroit filed for bankruptcy today. Detroit’s experience is, perhaps, a harbinger of things to come. The city has been going downhill for years, largely due to persistently corrupt and incompetent governance. Mayors and city councilmen have resigned in disgrace or gone to jail. The city’s finances been woeful for a long time. Detroit’s population has plummeted by 63 percent. Seventy-eight thousand empty houses and commercial buildings blight the landscape. Crime is rampant.

It has been obvious for quite a few years that the city’s all-Democrat governing class is a disastrous failure. One might have thought that Detroit’s citizens, forced to experience first-hand the results of decades of liberal policies, might be willing to try something different, if only out of desperation. But no: the city hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1961, and every current member of the City Council is a Democrat. (Two City Council positions are vacant because the city can’t afford to pay the salaries.) Detroit voters have been willing, apparently, to ride liberalism and the Democratic Party right down to the cellar. One wonders whether we will see the same stubborn commitment to failure in other cities and in states like Illinois and California that are stuck in a downward spiral.

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UPDATE: In 2010, French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre published a remarkable book titled The Ruins of Detroit. You can see a number of images from the book here. These pictures show us, I think, liberalism’s ultimate destination.

If you want America’s future to look like this, then do what the residents of Detroit did: vote Democrat.

Detroit Goes Bust [UPDATED With Photographs] | Power Line

If Obama had a legacy, it would look like Detroit.

 

[GURPS]

If Obama had a legacy, it would look like Detroit.

you have seen pictures of the Old USSR, outside of the major 'tourist' cities

 

[Gilligan]

This ....

 

[tommyjo]

Detroit Goes Bust [UPDATED With Photographs] | Power Line

If Obama had a legacy, it would look like Detroit.

Your blaming the failure of Detroit on a political party?

Wow...does your mind really operate on such a narrow bandwidth?

 

[Gilligan]

Your blaming the failure of Detroit on a political party?

Wow...does your mind really operate on such a narrow bandwidth?

Who else was in charge for the last five decades, sweetie?

 

[Lurk]

Who else was in charge for the last five decades, sweetie?

Oh, crap! Now TJ's gonna have to find that almanac under all the empty liquor bottles and beer cans.

 

[edinsomd]

Your blaming the failure of Detroit on a political party?

Wow...does your mind really operate on such a narrow bandwidth?

Below is a list of Republican Detroit mayors in office since 1961.

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Oh, wait.....

 

[protectmd]

Don't worry Baltimore is next....

Right now, Baltimore City and PG County are surviving on outlying counties tax dollars. Its not hard to see they are slowly slipping under water though. So work hard people, millions on welfare depend on you! And keep voting for your local Democratic party!

 

[RPMDAD]

This ....

Gilligan, sorry here sir have to make one minor correction to your post.

"IF I HAD A COUNTRY IT WOULD LOOK LIKE DETROIT"

 

[RPMDAD]

Don't worry Baltimore is next....

Right now, Baltimore City and PG County are surviving on outlying counties tax dollars. Its not hard to see they are slowly slipping under water though. So work hard people, millions on welfare depend on you! And keep voting for your local Democratic party!

Agree 100%