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Detroit goes out of buisness, declares chapter 11.

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Today, after a half-century of residential flight, high unemployment, a significant reduction in state funding, plummeting income and property taxes, corruption and chronic mismanagement, the bankruptcy filing solidifies the city's standing as a model of urban decline.
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Detroit has been under constant Democratic control since 1962. Coincidence?

Detroit is dead! Long live Delta City!
 
And this is a Surprise!?!?


I mean: We HAD to know something was wrong when that guy tried to blow up the city with a bomb tied to his dick
 
I always find it amusing how Maddow has this regular segment on how evil and undemocratic the Michigan emergency city manager law is.

Well, sorry guys is all.
 
I got a chance to drive around the outskirts of Detroit a year or two ago before my uncle moved out. It was a cross between a trainwreck & a museum - you couldn't look away, but it was hauntingly beautiful. Especially the endless rows of cars parked at the factories...it was like a farm in Kansas, just an endless sea of glittering paint & chrome. Kind of gave me the shivers. He wouldn't take me into the city - too dangerous apparently.
 
Well - this should be an interesting era.

I don't like being so close to that pit of despair. It's quite depressing when you visit and see all the high points and realize it's just sort of a "clawing at the last fleeting glimpses of light" as the city continues to sink further into disrepair.
 
Wasn't hard to see it coming, but I still love Detroit. Always will. I'm in LA right now for a month and probably won't be home more than a week for the rest of the year, but when I'm there, it'll be great. 🙂

(and yes, I'm out in the suburbs but I spend plenty of time in the city)
 
I expect the street gangs to step in and claim to be protecting the neighborhood in the absence of police. Public servants in a pinch.
 
I never figured Detroit was THAT bad, till I saw pics years back, it really is bad. In some places linemen and other infrastructure workers refuse to even go because it's too dangerous.

Meanwhile, our government is building a bridge there. LMAO. US-Canada Business opportunities, they say. :biggrin:
 
They should put it up on ebay. :biggrin:

If it does end up being completely abandoned, imagine how cool it will be in 100 years from now when some people are randomly walking in the bush and find an old abandoned city.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I never figured Detroit was THAT bad, till I saw pics years back, it really is bad. In some places linemen and other infrastructure workers refuse to even go because it's too dangerous.

Meanwhile, our government is building a bridge there. LMAO. US-Canada Business opportunities, they say. :biggrin:
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I have yet to see a neighborhood that isn't serviced in some way by the utilities. I work in a bad location and you can get fiber right to your house if you lived here. I know this because I pick up the wifi signals from the parking lot.

I love Detroit. It's a city that is insanely corrupt and a shithole of terrible leaders for the past 50 years, but the culture is great. I don't fear walking down the street in any of the built up area at all. There is a huge majority of good people who are just trying to get by and make a better lives for themselves and their families.
 
Kaido said:
I got a chance to drive around the outskirts of Detroit a year or two ago before my uncle moved out. It was a cross between a trainwreck & a museum - you couldn't look away, but it was hauntingly beautiful. Especially the endless rows of cars parked at the factories...it was like a farm in Kansas, just an endless sea of glittering paint & chrome. Kind of gave me the shivers. He wouldn't take me into the city - too dangerous apparently.
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That sea of cars is normal. It's the production that hasn't been delivered yet. The auto industry pumps out more cars per day than you can comprehend. Figure about 1,000 cars per day per plant. A sea of cars is 3-4,000, for the bigger plants. Not really a huge backlog.
 
Slew Foot said:
Lol, epic fail

The obvious solution is to tax the rich more to provide more welfare checks
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The obvious solution is to re-impose import tariffs and quit exporting America's industrial jobs. But we can start with your idea.

Detroit is a monument to lousy local government and failed national trade policies.
 
This is what happens with decades of continuous liberal governing. High debt, high unemployment, welfare dependency, corruption, mismanagement, etc.
 
This is how I always picture Detroit.

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