Detroit, the tragedy

How the Democrats Destroyed Detroit

Last Friday, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, announced that the state will proceed with a takeover of Detroit’s Democratic city government. “The current system has not been working. We have not stopped the decline,” said Snyder. “This is time for us not to argue or to blame, but to come together as Detroit, Mich., not Detroit vs. Michigan, and bring all of our resources to bear.” Snyder may not want to point the finger, but it is obvious that decades of Democratic rule and economic policies have brought this once great city to its knees.

The move, one step short of declaring municipal bankruptcy, means Snyder will be appointing an emergency manager with sweeping powers similar to that of a bankruptcy judge. Such powers include the ability to toss out unaffordable contracts with public employee unions and vendors, put city assets up for sale, consolidate or eliminate government departments, make further service cuts, or recommend municipal bankruptcy–all of which can be implemented with little to no input from local elected officials.


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They need to do something quickly.

Politicians did not destroy Detroit.....so much BS. Read Circa 1986 David Hamberstams "The Recokning".....The workers and management bear FULL responsibility. The quality guru, Demming and others went to GM/FORD/Chrysler management in the early 1980s and tried to get the industry to focus on QUALITY.....to no avail. They (Quality Professors)then went to Japan and were fully embraced.....statues of Demming adorn the country. Japan built (build ) quality products and we build CRAP.....still do. END of story....self destruction . Some good news:

Open shop laws passed recently in Michigan.
The management of Chrysler is now Fiat.
The South has had open shop forever and good manufacturers (Toyota, Honda, BMW, Mercedes.....get the idea) build fine cars there and have been doing so for 20 years.
GM imploded and we taxpayers bailed out a failed culture......maybe GM will survive in the South----we will see.
Ford put an AERO exec in place and he has burned down the failed Detroit culture.....and FORD has strong European presence.

BAD news....over 1 Million jobs disappeared because of a failed culture (we will never again pay $250,000 a year for a semi-skilled mechanic to put grease on a bolt). THE jobs will resurface to an extent in the SUN BELT

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including Califorina.....Detroit should be bulldozed as a commitment to not let that mess ever happen again. We should not send another nickle to that failed hasbeen...it is done.

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True, part of it was that the UAW and GM didn't know the right way to compete with Japan and now Korea, but decades of one party rule and a media willing to overlook the sins of corrupt administrations made the disintegration faster.

NYC had big issues in the 80's, bankrupt and crime ridden, but they were smart enough to hire a Republican, Guiliani, who made the streets safe and again and encouraged people and businesses to move back in.

Right now Manhattan is still quite popular to locate businesses despite the web making it very easy to decentralize. It will be interesting if NYC loses it cachet and businesses move to the cheaper interior, or the south like banking is doing.

TODAY.....NYC really has no place in the American future.....all it has to offer is financial services (a failed culture as we all know) and the financial transactions are essentially automated.....the servers are world wide and the clerks (brokers, lawyers, bankers) easily can be employed in Ames, Iowa. NYC is of marginal value.....OK Broadway, Harlem, central park we can keep. The banks moved South to get free of the failed Wall Street culture and many also went West to CAL. We certainly do not want to resurect the NYC model.....why throw more resources at a failed city. Of course we do not want them out west in any numbers.....they vote.