Detroit and the death of America.

[It’sallbsParticipant]

http://www.leavemeansleave.eu

[Anonymous 1]

Good documentary, but too much blame laid on the UAW. There a few things that are left out of the picture here.

A lot of the Detroit (and Michigan in general) problems were caused by Corrupt Politicians. Right up until the bankruptcy we had all this tax money coming in to the Detroit Government, but it wasn’t coming back out.

For example the Fire Department had millions of dollars that were supposed to be used for new Fire Engines and equipment. The money never got there. The tax money came in, but some politicians pocketed the money and bought mansions, hookers and cocaine with it. Meanwhile, the Fire Men had to wrap towels around their face because they couldn’t get the breathing gear and they had broken fire engines that couldn’t pump water.

Now take that example of the Detroit Fire Department and apply it to every other aspect of Detroit Government from schools, to roads, to water, to everything. These corrupt political families were also the same families controlling the underworld drug trafficking too. The “Black Maria Church” was the epicenter for these dynasties.

The documentary does a good job at pointing out the Fascist nature of Detroit. What happened at “Pole Town” was a Fascist deal. The big Corporations used Big Government to demolish a whole town. There is no complaints department either.

What happened in Detroit is going to happen to the USA. Its just a matter of time. The USA will have to file bankruptcy. I know all over the Rust Belt its already happening. Detroit is coming to a neighborhood near you…Have fun with that.

In addition to the Urban Decay you will see Mental Decay (Detroit Freezer Mom?). All forms of Crime will sky rocket. I used to have to push the needles off the sidewalk with a push broom so I could get to my car. Every night there would be fresh needles all over the place. I was burglarized on a weekly basis sometimes multiple times a week. They were even breaking in just to steal food out of my Refrigerator. All the fond memories of Detroit…

There was one guy recently, who got arrested for selling body parts on the black market. No kidding this f~~~er had a warehouse full of heads and arms and blood!!! That’s your Detroit Entrepreneur of today, and here is the kicker the parts were contaminated with aids!!!

Jan Sobieski wrote:

Aren’t the Muslim’s buying up the cheap land and building their own little of heaven in slower Michigan?

Yes, it’s called Dearborn. They even got in trouble for Female Circumcision recently. Basically, the Mecca of the Midwest. You can drive around and see nothing but signs in Arabic and people covered up from head to toe.

[Anonymous 42]

It’sallbs wrote:

Manchester was big after the industrial revolution it was full of cotton mills and factories, when I was a kid (born in 76) even in the city centre all you could see for miles was derelict mills and factories as far as the eye could see.

In the neighboring watershed of Ware River there once was mills, foundries, and waterworks.

In the 1930s’ during the not so great depression, the town of Ware boasted: “The town that couldn’t be licked” from all its textile mills that ran through the depression and into the 1940s, 50s’ and 60’s, by the 70’s we were showing the same signs as Detroit, the entire valley lost all its manufacturing, and the ones they didn’t loose were taken over by foreign investors. All the foundries closed down, all the textiles vanished, industry was decimated.

Where looms once ran now specialty shops come and go:(below)

Hardwick Knitters; abandoned for decades:

I went to this movie theater back in the mid 80s’, it’s gone now after much neglect, leveled like numerous other structures and factories in the area.

Gilbertville and points north:

[Anonymous 1]

Here is your American Dream of today…Husband, Wife in Detroit…

Cadaver Dealer Rented out Infected Legs, Heads, Necks

Underground Body Brokers Leads to Detroit

and our Single Mother Extraordinaire…

Detroit Mom Locks Children In Deep Freezer

Only in Detroit: Pay Child Support for some one else’s kid or go to Jail

[Anonymous 1]

It’sallbs wrote:

Manchester (UK) where I am from was like that.

Manchester was big after the industrial revolution it was full of cotton mills and factories, when I was a kid (born in 76) even in the city centre all you could see for miles was derelict mills and factories as far as the eye could see.

It was like that through the late 70s, 80s, 90s and even early 2000s.

Manchester is the Detroit of the UK. You know some of my favorite bands were Manchester. Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Happy Mondays. That was the soundtrack for my Detroit days, I don’t like Rap. Really was the perfect soundtrack for Detroit.

[PrincekieParticipant 1042]

It’sallbs wrote:

Rumpole wrote:

The city limits of Detroit encompass an area of roughly 140 square miles. The acreage of empty lots and abandoned properties is larger than the footprint of Paris, France.

Manchester (UK) where I am from was like that.

Manchester was big after the industrial revolution it was full of cotton mills and factories, when I was a kid (born in 76) even in the city centre all you could see for miles was derelict mills and factories as far as the eye could see.

It was like that through the late 70s, 80s, 90s and even early 2000s.

Now after many years of regeneration (there are still pockets of extreme poverty) its all call centres and over priced crap new build flats and recruitment agencies and retail taht’s it. There are still small amounts of manufacturing around the edges but nothing much really.

I’m a northerner too, so I know where you’re coming from. Saw my hometown go downhill through the 80s and 90s as factory after factory shut down. Sometimes I’ll go back to where I grew up, and nothings really changed. Same old people, same old dilapidated council housing, rickety security fencing around fields of red bricks, glass and abandoned factories.

The thing we share with Detroit is that the rot set in sometime in the 60s and 70s. Militant workers wanting more money for less work. Companies like Amstrad realising that they could import half decent goods from places that didn’t have high wages or militant employees. Then “Maggie” came along and gave UK manufacturing its death knell…

[It’sallbsParticipant]

The saddets thing is salfors quays (the old manchester and salford docks- where the ship canal brought stuff in) is now media city ie BB lying bastardsd and a crap shopping mall

http://www.leavemeansleave.eu

[Jim01Participant 6678]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012971/From-Motown-Ghost-town-How-mighty-Detroit-heading-long-slow-road-ruin.html

[Anonymous 42]

Good article Jim, the British view is spot on, however to see it really defies all definition.

I want to see our federal government just as crippled as the rust belt and put out of business. They’ve earned it ten times over! Or should I say 20 trillion times over!

Watching what the federal government does is like watching a parasite suck the last drop of blood from it’s host.

Call it a mercy killing in the name of divine justice! I wanna all their pensions and benefits dry up, rot out, and collapse in a plume if economic dust!

Rome has burned nearly to the ground and they keep on plundering.

R.I.P. U.S.A.

[Jim01Participant 6678]

Anonymous wrote:

Good article Jim, the British view is spot on, however to see it really defies all definition.

I want to see our federal government just as crippled as the rust belt and put out of business. They’ve earned it ten times over! Or should I say 20 trillion times over!

Watching what the federal government does is like watching a parasite suck the last drop of blood from it’s host.

Call it a mercy killing in the name of divine justice! I wanna all their pensions and benefits dry up, rot out, and collapse in a plume if economic dust!

Rome has burned nearly to the ground and they keep on plundering.

R.I.P. U.S.A.

That Peter Hitchens is worth a read. He can be a bit preachy at times but he gets what is going on in the West and usually predicts things before they happen

[It’sallbsParticipant]

https://www.citymetric.com/business/manchester-miracle-how-did-city-decline-become-poster-child-urban-regeneration-2402

http://www.leavemeansleave.eu

[Anonymous 42]

Manchester is a nice story, around here it’s just a fantasy, we’re gridlock in red tape, lawyers, bureaucrats, and regulation, there’s only new births in government, everything else is either shoestring or dilapidated.

Cultural Marxists dreamers rule the roost in these times of continuous decay. We’ve become worse than the fallen Soviet Union with bureaucratic red tape, however with more regulation to go with it! A third world population is growing in the United States and fed by an institutional poverty industry. DECAY DECAY DECAY! That’s all I’ve seen for the past 30+ years!

This system punishes you for working harder to the point it’s better to just be poor and minimal to get the benefits that outweigh the struggle. Poverty industry recipients live better than the battered and bewildered workforce that supports them!

It’s f~~~ed and headed for a natural death, like cancer consuming the living…

[VernimatorParticipant 38]

I spent most of my teens years in the Detroit area. ’75 – ’82, Royal Oak, Hazel Park and Madison Heights. It was in a downward spiral back then due to Democrat Coleman Young, the five term Mayor of Detroit from ’74 – ’94, corruption, Democratic run Unions and policies, and Liberalism.

Young’s tenure as mayor has been blamed in part for the city’s ills, especially the exodus of middle class taxpayers to the suburbs, the emergence of powerful drug-dealing gangs, and the rising crime rate.[4] Political scientist James Q. Wilson wrote that, “In Detroit, Mayor Coleman Young rejected the integrationist goal in favor of a flamboyant, black-power style that won him loyal followers, but he left the city a fiscal and social wreck.”

Joined the U.S. Navy in ’82 to get the hell out of that s~~~ hole.

"I'll never be back!!!"

[Anonymous 42]

Vernimator wrote:

Joined the U.S. Navy in ’82 to get the hell out of that s~~~ hole.

Half the armed forces must have came from Detroit!

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