Detroit in the toilet..
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Boca
Governor
ITALIA
Mayor
Calling it thinking is a bit of a stretch.
Israel gets $3.5 billion per year in US welfare payments. Do you suppose we'd be better off investing that money here?
Boca
Governor
I don't think Detroit has anything to do with stability in the Middle East. And I'm positive sending money to incompetent corrupt Democrats in Detroit won't accomplish much even if Monica Conyers, wife of Congressman John Conyers (D), is in prison.
Wahbooz
Governor
Since you can't hit your own mouth with those beer suds, exactly what do you know about what got Detroit in that problem?
First of all Snyder, who is a Republican, says this problem is not new; that it's been coming for several decades. Detroit has also been under Republican mayors during that time, and they borrowed as well.
Secondly, Detroit was promised by a Republican governor, namely John Engler, that if Detroit would cease collecting a particular tax the state would reimburse those revenues. Funny thing how politicians forget their promises before the sun rises.
Third, Michigan has several cities under an Emergency Financial Manager, since the governors continue to cut revenue sharing with the cities. Money that rightfully belongs to the cities.
I suspect you don't know shit about shinola.
N.B. Forrest
Council Member
Detroit was americas 4th largest city in 1950. 1.8 million people.
In 2010 the city had less than 700,000. A 60% decline in 60 years. Gerrymandering districts in order to create artificial "black" majorities which will only elect "black" candidates who in turn fill city jobs with more negroes who are historically proven to be anti white. City services begin to decline due to corruption and incompetency, forcing the city govt. to raise taxes to cover shortfalls...this drives even more homeowners/workers/businesses/taxpayers away...
Whites (taxpayers) abandon the city and move to the suburbs where it's safer, cleaner and taxes are better used to maintain the infrastructure. 50 years of "black" "leadership" (like Kwame Kilpatrick) leaves a black run city that is completely corrupt and dysfunctional.
Detroit has the highest unemployment in the nation.
So combine fewer people with high unemployment and the city is left with a declining tax base and an increase in crime and abandoned buildings/homes/businesses.
Detroit has $18 billion – yes, billion — in general-obligation debt.
That’s a lot more than some of the other high-profile municipal bankruptcy cases in recent years. When Central Falls, R.I., declared bankruptcy in 2011, it had only about $80 million in debt. Jefferson County, Ala., had about $4 billion in debt when it declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy that same year.
“Detroit has been working its way to a level of insolvency for decades. We cannot continue to carry this level of debt,” Kevyn Orr, the city’s state-appointed emergency manager, tweeted on Thursday.
Detroit has about $3 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.
Why is the city buried in pension costs? Because it has too many public workers.
Though Detroit’s population has caved in the past several decades, the public sector just keeps on growing. In 2011, the city had more than 12,000 employees — more than any other comparably-sized city in the country, according to an analysis from The Detroit News.
That works out to one public employee for every 55 residents of the city...and 99.9% of them are "black". An artificial "middle class" of negro "city workers" (unionized government employees) who are parasites on the dying corpse of detroit.
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EatTheRich
President
There's also the fact that the American auto companies were crushed by Toyota in the 1980s and 1990s.
N.B. Forrest
Council Member
Why is that?
Zam-Zam
Senator
What happens in the court system will be crucial to not only Detroit, but other cities across the nation facing bankruptcy. A judge has ruled Detroit's filing for bankruptcy violates Michigan's state constitution. This will be appealed of course; reality is reality, and Detroit is broke. If the court rules in Detroit's favor and allows bankruptcy to proceed, a precedent will have been set, and the flood gates will have been opened. It will provide a way out for other cities who have burdensome city pensions and no funds to pay them. What happens in Detroit has ramifications beyond Detroit.
democrats
Speaking of shinola... detroit has been under Democratic mayors since the 60's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Detroit
1. Israel gets $3.5 billion per year from US taxpayers. They ignore us and confiscate land from the Palestinians, build illegal settlements on occupied land and quarantine the Palestinians, preventing them from being able to actually improve their economy or their prospects. This stabilizes the middle east how, exactly?
2. Monica Conyers isn't in jail...but that has to do with your priorities how?
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Sickofleft
Guest
Boca
Governor
Is she out already? Oh well....since it escaped you the connection is Democrat, Congressman, and corruption.
The city had already begun the slide to where it is now by the time the first democratic mayor had been elected....the riot in 1967 did not happen because a democrat got elected in 64. The first riot that I know of was in the 40s and happened during a long run of republican leadership.
By the time of the 1967 riots the car companies had already built 25 factories outside of Detroit and couple hundred thousand people had left the city for the suburbs...
Clearly the leadership of Detroit going back to the 1950s had done nothing at all to help improve the city and the Democrats have run the place for 5 decades.
Yeah, things got pretty bad there under Ahnold....
Hmmm, lucky for us the republicans aren't corrupt at all, eh Booger?
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zzigzzag
Guest
Yeah...they always go Democratic. 5 times out of 20 Governors since the turn of the 20th century. Before that, they were even more likely to go Republican.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_California
