On 8/3/2013 4:37 AM, Ashton Crusher wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:42:35 -0400, Kurt Ullman
wrote:

The Motor City was home to 1.9 million people in 1950, at the time
nearly identical in size to Los Angeles. Today, 700,000 inhabit Detroit,
or less than a fifth the size of L.A. That works out to 2.2 people
leaving Detroit every hour, 24 hours a day, for the last 63 years. If
the number of people who left Detroit in the last 60 years formed their
own city, it would be the nation's ninth largest, ahead of Dallas, Texas.


I visited my Sister when she lived in Detroit in the late 70's. It
was more then obvious at that time that the city was a rotting
cesspool. The freeways in the middle of the day were so unsafe if you
had a flat and left your car unattended that the chances that you'd
still have tires and wheels on it when you returned were about 50-50.
I saw this over and over again. I have NEVER seen cars on a freeway,
then or since, anywhere else in the US that had their wheels stolen
like this in broad daylight on the side of a busy freeway. They need
to take Detroit and burn it to the ground. Virtually every major city
that's been controlled by democrats for most of it's existence is
going the way of Detroit.


I remember a nice clean city 50 years ago and then what you describe 25
years ago. It was not that the city government did not see what was
coming. They should have been clamping down on crime and trying to
attract new businesses. Lots of other cities have been through this and
survived.