[Tyler_JC]

I have a friend that manages a bunch of government-subsidized real estate.
These folks are required to pay about $15 a month in rent. That's right, you heard me, $15 a month.
Guess what % of them are delinquent on a regular basis?
Some people just aren't responsible enough to take care of themselves. Sadly, Detroit has many people like that and so long as those people are encouraged to stay put thanks to government handouts, they will continue to prevent Detroit from making a comeback.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome people just aren't responsible enough to take care of themselves. Sadly, Detroit has many people like that and so long as those people are encouraged to stay put thanks to government handouts, they will continue to prevent Detroit from making a comeback.

[denverdave]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome people just aren't responsible enough to take care of themselves. Sadly, Detroit has many people like that and so long as those people are encouraged to stay put thanks to government handouts, they will continue to prevent Detroit from making a comeback.

[TommyJefferson]

I asked you about free will you start talking about Katrina and fast food restaurants.

What is your point?

[pea-jay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TommyJefferson', 'T')he fact that the citizens of Detroit elected horrible, corrupt politicians for the last 35 years had nothing to do with Detroit's current status as America's Zimbabwe.

[pea-jay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mircea', 'W')hat happens is people and businesses start fleeing to areas with lower tax rates (not just whites, but blacks also) while simultaneously those who desire freebies start flocking to the city. This starts a downward spiral as the tax base erodes resulting in declining revenues for the city, which then increases taxes further to pay for burgeoning social service budget, accelerating the flight of people and businesses. Unable to raise taxes further, the city then begins cutting non-social services, like the arts, police, fire and safety, recreation and infrastructure maintenance in order pay for the increasing burden on social services which is now fueled by the rapid expansion of HUD Section 8 funded housing created when those who actually worked and paid taxes fled. Crime, prostitution, gambling, drugs, and gang violence become rampant and the city is essentially dead.

[pea-jay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('denverdave', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome people just aren't responsible enough to take care of themselves. Sadly, Detroit has many people like that and so long as those people are encouraged to stay put thanks to government handouts, they will continue to prevent Detroit from making a comeback.

[Boris555]

From what I've heard, the race and socioeconomic makeup of the clientele is not the issue here.
Sure, the shoplifting losses are higher, but you crank the prices up a couple percent to cover that.
What drives BIG businesses out of the CITY of Detroit (not the 'burbs) is that the unions have such a stranglehold on ANY business in the city.
From what I hear, you have to pay a grocery bag boy about $15/hour, plus full benefits (medical, 4 wks vac, etc.) under the UFCW contract in Detroit. God knows what the checkers and stockers get.
Here in TX we have plenty of big grocery stores in high-crime areas, and they do fine. But the bagboys get just over minumum wage.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')rom what I hear, you have to pay a grocery bag boy about $15/hour, plus full benefits (medical, 4 wks vac, etc.) under the UFCW contract in Detroit. God knows what the checkers and stockers get.
Here in TX we have plenty of big grocery stores in high-crime areas, and they do fine. But the bagboys get just over minumum wage.

[I_Like_Plants]

Yeah those goddamn Unions, fucking communists. Bet they all have a picture of Lenin on the wall and expect fucking health care. Fuckers.

Goddamnit, where are our ROBOTS??? Fucking Robot Olympics (one of the few, if any, activities allowed to legally use the O-word) our kids are doing and still no robot workers developed??? Come on Sony, when will we be able to replace the working class with Asimos? Or better yet Chinese-slave-made cheap knockoffs of Asimos? Then we can just kill off the working class, what a wonderful new world it will be...

[Plantagenet]

Maybe one of the extremely wealthy NBA or NFL or MLB players who has taken millions out of Detroit could help out by opening a supermarket in the city?

Magic Johnson (former Laker great) has been opening Starbucks, theatres and other businesses in Watts.

[vision-master]

I got my "coke" habit to maintain.............

[Boris555]

Yeah those goddamn Unions, fucking communists. Bet they all have a picture of Lenin on the wall and expect fucking health care. Fuckers.

Okay, you go ahead and go back to blaming it on the darker races and continue your misunderstanding of simple economics, then.

It's easier to be racist than to think.

[vision-master]

If you fuckers down South weren't so brainwashed into thinking unions are so bad, maybe the place wouldn't be so loaded with trailer trash.

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'I')f you fuckers down South weren't so brainwashed into thinking unions are so bad, maybe the place wouldn't be so loaded with trailer trash.

[Boris555]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'I')f you fuckers down South weren't so brainwashed into thinking unions are so bad, maybe the place wouldn't be so loaded with trailer trash.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')onald Reagan once criticized those who seemed to always find a cloud behind every silver lining. Nothing has changed since he was president. For some, rising income inequality outweighs having economic expansion in 261 of the 276 months since Reagan took office, including a technological revolution, a property valuation boom, and near-mastery over inflation.
Much has been made lately of a publication by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a liberal Washington think tank, on the growing income disparity in the United States and in Texas. By its measure, Texas has one of the worst income disparities between those with high incomes and those with low and middle incomes in the nation.

[Nickel]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Boris555', 'F')rom what I hear, you have to pay a grocery bag boy about $15/hour, plus full benefits (medical, 4 wks vac, etc.) under the UFCW contract in Detroit. God knows what the checkers and stockers get.
Here in TX we have plenty of big grocery stores in high-crime areas, and they do fine. But the bagboys get just over minumum wage.

[Boris555]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'R')onald Reagan once criticized those who seemed to always find a cloud behind every silver lining. Nothing has changed since he was president. For some, rising income inequality outweighs having economic expansion in 261 of the 276 months since Reagan took office, including a technological revolution, a property valuation boom, and near-mastery over inflation.
Much has been made lately of a publication by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a liberal Washington think tank, on the growing income disparity in the United States and in Texas. By its measure, Texas has one of the worst income disparities between those with high incomes and those with low and middle incomes in the nation.
http://www.texaspolicy.com/tppn_archive ... 1138831113

[vision-master]

THE SOUTH:

Low Wages & the biggest burden on the Federal Government.