The Incredible Shrinking City: Detroit Is Becoming a Ghost Town

Having travelled and lived in many cities in america, I have seen examples of how the various ethnic groups function. Spanish folks used to be very family oriented as did most whites. Blacks were mostly disfunctional or single parent arrangements to take advantage of welfare rules. Orientals showed the most ability to build communities. In fact I have seen first hand how asians have gone into absolute ghettos and house by house pushed out the black criminals and built hemselves fine communities. Establishing businesses, improved schools, raised their kids and sent them off the college.
So why is it they can do this but the blacks cannot? Because the asians have strong work ethics and will not allow anything to deter them. They are for the most part too proud to accept handouts.
Blacks have for generations been brainwashed by the likes of democrats and leaders like Jackson and Sharpton to believe they are entitled to a free ride. The rap culture has accelerated this downward spiral and is even dragging the white youth down the drain in a lot of our lower and middle class groups.
Truely a shame but like addiction, only the addicted can change their course, no one can do it but they themselves!

Before this is all said and done, one thing will be very clear to all Americans

There is no such thing as an "African American"
There are only blacks in America
Their intentions are not in the best interest of this Great Nation
They are a threat to National Security

You may not understand this yet, but you soon will

Just eliminate all CARS &the insane WAGE SLAVE system which is slavery!

And work TEN HOURS a week building new clean perfect TOWER CITIES & TRAINS & get people off the ground because they're destroying the whole EARTH!!

This government needs to bring back all of the jobs that moved out of this country because it would be easier for them to make millions in profits. The shape of this country is the fault of this government. WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO FIX THIS, by REVOLUTION if necessary.

As soon as the blacks took over the city went down hill. If it was not bad enough with the sewer scum sucking mafia, the blacks had to add their own brand of graft and corruption. Than the feds would not investigate corruption in area police departments and the FBI was covering for their "friends". How come the feds have not gone after the money that Kilpatricks family has squandered? How come the wife and mother were not charged?

Stop voting as staunch democrats and having corrupt mayors for the last 70 years and maybe the city could have been saved. I grew up in Detroit and Dearborn in the 50's when Detroit had over 1.5 million but Dearborn always surpassed Detroit as the nicer cleaner environment to live in. Time has taken its toll on both but Dearborn still handles its politics better even with the large influx of muslims. Detroit needs to clean up its act and should have done so 35 years ago.

The white, blacks and mexicans are moving out but, for everyone that is moving out 10 Muslims families move in!

Relocate the blacks out of DETROIT and put those JAPANESE who were affected by the tsunami, quake and radiation and you will witness a rebirth of a new paradise, GUARANTEED!!

unions cause this problems ,alot of welfare in the inter citys. companys need to move .,taxes are out of control in mich.

F@#* NO!! Immigration IS NOT the way to stop Detroit from shrinking. 1. Less taxes! 2. Financial self control on part of the city.

Facts are a little simpler....you cant have a large manufacturing base, which supports the auto inductries when you also have former and current presidents thta feel sorry and somehow, guilty, for America's being far more productive and successful then other nations in the UN....they signed NAFTA and the industry either left to avoid crushing taxation or collasped trying to manage it! When a government becomes detrimental to the people who elect and pay for it, the Constitution gives us ONE remedy...and only ONE! Replace it, or shut the eff up!
Whats happened here folks is no less difficult then the tail wagging the dog...the government has allowed itself to forget who it is they work for, and we allowed them to do so....so, the only remedy to this is to replace that government! Undo 60 years of oppressive laws, and get back to what the Founders meant when they wrote, "a government OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people"...until then, nothing else even matters!

HEY COONTRUTH! IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE BOUGHT US OVER HERE @#$%! XD

Detroit is the perfect example of what happens when corporations become so strong that they literally run the city/state. Take a look at the movie Robocop and Robocop 2 and see the allegories. The jobs and factories left and the people are left with nothing at all. Detroit is a look into the future of what's going to happen to America as a whole. Outsourcing American jobs just because Asian slaves are cheaper to hire is all about profits and not about helping America stay strong. Every single thing we buy is made in china. Therefore, every dime we spend goes to China. America is gaining nothing but debt.

I loved, and mourned, the Detroit tour. I take my version of that tour
every year or so. The most Exotic City in America. The sheer scale of
the collapse is overwhelming. My dad and his boss took me to lunch at
the Book Cadillac Hotel. My last high school (St. Teresa- now Martyrs
of Uganda School, abandoned) is on the tour, the Lee Plaza in all its'
decaying splendor is six blocks from my grandparent's home. All the
buildings of my life still exist: my grandparents home- though the
houses on both sides were destroyed and are now empty lots- my wife's
Mercy High School, once a snooty girl's academy on a college campus-
where I used to embarrass her by showing up after school with my loud
exhaust friends- is a derelict of broken glass and blowing garbage.
Redford High- the 4,000 student pride of the westside- has rust stains
down the limestone facade obscuring the Keep Out signs. Across the
street the 13th precinct police station is an empty wreck.
And yet. Christ the King elementary school where Anne and I met is
still lovely and functional (one block away from the 13th precinct
station). Our family home looks just like it did in the 50s and the
street is even more beautiful, the trees larger, the homes well-kept.
Only the skin color of all the owners has changed. Bizarre.
The problem I have with all the analyses of Detroit that I read -and
for some reason there is quite a lot of it these days (see excellent
piece in the NYT yesterday next to the also excellent Tom Friedman
essay) is they invariably cite the loss of the auto industry as the
reason for the collapse. Do they ever actually visit Detroit and talk
to people who live and work there about their own history? The auto
industry hasn't gone anywhere: Ford has never left Dearborn, General
Motors world headquarters is still in downtown Detroit and Chrysler
moved to Auburn Hills-about ten miles from where it used to be. In
these hard times those three companies will build and sell maybe 10
million. Million. automobiles. The City of Detroit is ringed with
suburbs as rich and pretty as any anywhere. The fabulously productive
auto industry is creating and sloshing around about as much wealth as
it ever did- go shopping in Bloomfield Hills, try to find parking at
the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club. Drive through endless upper middle class
subdivisions every mall as jammed as California, sushi here goat
cheese there everywhere a Starbucks.
No, the auto industry didn't leave Detroit. The people left Detroit.
And most of them didn't move to Arizona. They moved to Southfield,
Farmington, St. Clair Shores, Livonia, Novi, Warren- all maybe 20
minutes by freeway from Detroit City Hall.
Is this some inner-sanctum knowledge possessed only by people who
drank Vernor's Ginger Ale in their formative years??

In Oakland, Black Power persons had nifty haircuts and exciting rhetoric to inflame
lunch hour at UC Berkeley. In Ithaca some bad MF..ers brought
actual guns on Cornell University campus. Imagine. Got on the cover of
Time. In L.A. those shiftless brothers rioted for almost three whole
days. Looted some TVs. Went back to work. But in Detroit the young
angry black men didn't stop. Detroit (N word) are the real deal,
They burned the MF down just like it sez in the words of the
song. Scared the @#$% out of the white oppressors. Who walked away
from their nice brick middle-class homes and Catholic churches and
grocery stores- who, like my parents, literally gave away worthless
homes as they fled the dangerous mess that their city had become. They
took with them the money, the work ethic, the organization, the shops,
the technology, the aggressive greed- white world, in short. They left
the City of Detroit and the ones who can still remember those years are deeply
furious at the destruction of their lives by the black revolution...
.

Another good tip on fighting against The NWO. Stop buying products from China, especially food. Check the bottom of the cans and packages if it says made in China or prc on the bottom put it back on the shelf. If enough Americans keep doing this it will create thousands and thousands of American jobs.

what we need is a President a leader who will tell the foreign compnaies doing buisnes here the if they want o do business IN USA they have to make their product HERE using mreciacn workers and then tell US companies they cant make their stuff overseeas and then selklk it here. trhe Soviet Union set up an Iron Curtain, we should do the same only with trade. If we sealed our broders to imports we would have to make what we need here and it can be done. We used to be the manufactoring leader in the world. We didnt suffer a war or natural disaster that made it impossibe for us to provide the goods we use, we gave it away to Corporate Greed. There is nothing made overseas that we cant make here the reason we dont is CEO's want more money so they send our jobs overseas. Does anyone really think if we made it impossible for a company to out-source it's production that those companies would just fail? No. they would scramble to find a way to make stuff here. We have the resources, the workforce and everything else in place. What we DONT have is someone willing to take action and FORCE the corporations to invest in THIS coiuntry instead of thier own pockets and those of their shareholders. We dont need Japanese stell we have steel rusting in our junkyards and landfills, same with plastic and paper and everything else. LImited Capitalism, meaning you can make all the money you want but you can only do business in the USA. We tell the corporations they have 6 months to tool up the abandoned factories here and at the end if they arent ready, Oh Well. It would put ppl back to work, that means more money to spend by the ppl, more businesses opening to fill the demand left from not having made in China or Japoan or India products. This can be done. and the only group that would be negatively affected are the foreign investors and foreign companies that rely on Amercians buying their stuff. When Mad Cow disease was found in a sample of our beef Japan closed it's borders to ALL beef from USA. We should do the same and bann all japanese products becuse of their potential exposure to radiation. They already have plants making their products here, we just only allow to sale of Japanese cars that are made 100% here based on the asumption they are contaminated. We would just be imitating what they did to us by saying we are protecting our populace from their radiation just as they protected their populace from our infected beef. Just saying if we want to fix America, then we have to put America back to work. We have a deficeit because we are spending more than we are taxing, we can't tax ppl out of work, they dont have it. So if we ignore the cries of the Corporations and make them hire US citizens to work those citizens now have an income to tax, and since suddenly there will be a demand for Amercian workers there will be less ppl on the welfare rolls, meaning we dont have to spend as much on entitlement programs. Just saying it can be done. The only ppl this Iron Curtain would negatively affect would be the comapnies using overseas cheapness to become millionaires here. and those ppl are the minority. I thinbk i will run for President and this will be my platform. Just saying...

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas or a people which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson

Immigration is not the answer! there are no jobs! what will they do?! get on welfare?! Just great more mouths to feed!

People are leaving the Omaha, Nebraska area and Detroit because they are like living in a war zone. They're unsafe, the residents that live there are military slime and druggies with guns. They are tearing down building and houses right now because the fire and police department can't keep up with the crime and arson, so their solution is to bull doze the outer neighborhoods so that they can get a better grip on whats going on. Omaha and Detroit are dumps.

Omaha, Nebraska and Detroit have been shrinking since the 1970s. Crime and poverty have gone up since then. Most people that grew up in Omaha and Detroit never finished high school, some people out there even glorify, and brag about the fact that they break the law and do drugs. Omaha and Detroit...really, really sad.