As Spencer once said: The ignorance of their ignorance, is the malady of the ignorant.
I remember when NYC was becoming a slum everywhere downtown....so the Government built high-rise condos for the poor and those who had low income. It was only a year or two before they had to tear them down, because they were worse than the original tenements ever thought of being. Some idiots even tried to build fires on the cement floors...
Samples from your link:
---Lodgedodger:
Call me an idiot, but articles like this strengthens my resolve to make this city a better place.
Yikes:
--- ...or the tumbleweeds. The year I married Mrs. Prof in April, we spent that Thanksgiving at Grandma Prof's house in Noo Yawk, and the local paper had a "lifestyle" section as many do. Their Thanksgiving day lead story in the lifestyle section carried the headline "Once Great Detroit Now Vast Wasteland", and mentioned, among other things, tumbleweeds blowing down an east-side street.
--- Now I've seen pheasants in Detroit, coyotes, rats big enough to eat the coyotes, but I don't recall ever seeing a tumbleweed. But newspapers love this kind of shit. Remember: "House Does Not Burn Down; Nobody Killed" is not news.
Can’t repeat Dbc….but he doesn’t see anything wrong with the place (and that all by itself tells the story)
And looks like he has LOTS of friends who won’t open their eyes….They seem to see what they want to see…..
And they can blame the Repubs all they want. Let them show the rest of us a single primarily Republican voting city in the country that looks like Detroit seems to look…..
Double Dog Dare Them!!
---And then there is this…NPR is putting their oar in too…
Posted on Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 8:51 pm:
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here's a better piece on Detroit: Just heard the last installment on NPR.
npr.org tory/story.php?storyId=9877128 0
(and it does mention the Russell Industrial Center) |
