Thread: What happened to Detroit?

Collectivists and supremacists and social engineering fops took control under the reign of Mayor Coleman Young, a twenty-year carnival of corruption, extortion and excess. It continues to this day. With forty years of rule, top to bottom, it's reasonable to conclude the outcome we see was the outcome intended. A breakthrough mea culpa is unlikely, one may search Detroit all day and not find the militants who brought it about, they're busy liberating other places. What you will find is ruins on a staggering scale, genuine civil collapse and marauding gangs. Detroit has been the murder capital or a strong contender for most of this time, but cities in their pre-scorched-earth phase are offering spirited competition , perhaps because they're target-rich by comparison. Look for an appeal to the rules committee.

ol remus and the woodpile report

In China and India and other emerging economys there are massive populations of slave-like labor. What is happening in Detriot is simply the the furthest manifestation of a city with a lack of an economic base. This inbalance is not going to be equalize till our average labor market employees are reduced to or near to, China's labor market level.

Or I suppose as Americans we could individually try to buy American made products. For example if you go to buy athletic shoes there are still shoes made in the USA believe it or not. New Balance is manufactured in the USA. Chinese made shoes are cheaper though.

It is so ludicrous that you just can't make this shit up.

Seriously...an illiterate school board president. It would be hilarious if it wasn't true. But unfortunately, it is sad but true.

Originally Posted by justoneman

In China and India and other emerging economys there are massive populations of slave-like labor. What is happening in Detriot is simply the the furthest manifestation of a city with a lack of an economic base. This inbalance is not going to be equalize till our average labor market employees are reduced to or near to, China's labor market level.

Or I suppose as Americans we could individually try to buy American made products. For example if you go to buy athletic shoes there are still shoes made in the USA believe it or not. New Balance is manufactured in the USA. Chinese made shoes are cheaper though.

Nonsense. Your timeline if way off. Detroit was a basketcase decades before china made it's rise. What happened in detroit was a political failure of monumental proportions. In a very real sense you could say the present state of detroit is a result of ethnic cleansing.



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Edward L. Glaeser
Harvard University and NBER
Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University and NBER

James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. As a consequence, Boston stagnated, but Curley kept winning elections. We present a model of using redistributive politics to shape the electorate, and show that this model yields a number of predictions opposite from the more standard frameworks of political competition, yet consistent with empirical evidence............

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Though some blame Detroit’s population losses on larger economic forces, economists Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer argue in a groundbreaking paper that the city’s problems are mostly self-inflicted. (The paper, called “The Curley Effect,” gets its name from legendary Boston mayor James Curley, who favored Irish residents and pushed other groups out.) After winning election in 1973, Detroit’s first black mayor, Coleman Young, consolidated his power, driving white residents, who had voted against him, out of the city by withdrawing services from their neighborhoods. Eventually, Glaeser and Shleifer write, Detroit became “an overwhelmingly black city mired in poverty and social problems”—and shrinking fast.

well first workers in manufacturing in Detroit were being displaced by the Japanese and then by China. This process has been going on in full force since the mid seventies.

Originally Posted by justoneman

well first workers in manufacturing in Detroit were being displaced by the Japanese and then by China. This process has been going on in full force since the mid seventies.

Sorry, but the japanese were not working for nothing by the 1970's. They were just making a better product. You need to come to terms with the facts; a once powerful beautiful american city was destroyed by democratic politician, coleman young, fully backed by the democratic party machine using racial politics to achieve a specific political outcome. Any of this sound familiar?

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Coleman Alexander Young (May 24, 1918 – November 29, 1997) served as mayor of Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan from 1974 to 1993. Young became the first African-American mayor of Detroit in the same week that Maynard Jackson became the first African-American mayor of Atlanta. However, under his tenure the city rapidly declined and by the end of his term a quarter of the city was derelict, and the population, particularly those of white ancestry, had dropped dramatically.