America on the rebound with Obama Administration Policies
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If all these urban dwellers that stay in the cities for whatever reason all had jobs making widgets for 25k a year plus some basic health insurance would things really be any different? Doubtful! Why? Greed, Jealously, Drugs. I'm the least religious person I know but this country needs some sort of moral cleansing. When I'm playing call of duty or whatever online and I hear some 8 or 9 year old saying the most disgusting shit that I can't even fathom it kind of inspires me to want to do something. But when I think about how huge the problem is I just want to take all my guns and move to the middle of nowhere. I guess every generation thinks the same thing about the next one coming up.
I read a lot of your posts and you must be at least 1 of the top 5 smartest guys that visit this site. You need a TV show
It is relatively easy to summarize what happened in Detroit: Detroit was too heavily dependent on one industry. Over the years de facto segregation of economic classes occurred spontaneously as those of greater economic means moved to suburbs. Whether this move was fueled by rising crime rates, rising property taxes, or other issues is immaterial. This meant, of course, that the local tax burden was assumed by an increasingly smaller fraction of the cities residents. This accelerated the trend toward relocation to the suburbs, and with that there was a further rise in the crime rate in the inner city. --The reasons for this have been addressed nicely in Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" written in 1961!
City management, which one can argue was not very good in the first place, found itself under increasing political pressure and did not, or could not, adjust by cutting back sufficiently on services and other expenditures, nor was it forward thinking enough to institute other measures that might have succeeded in heading off otherwise inevitable collapse. When the American auto industry went bad, the city, which was already on the precipice of collapse, experienced what will happen to any city where a too small fraction of the population is asked to bear the financial burden of maintaining infrastructure. Those who can get out will, so there will be even fewer remaining to bear the cost. Those who remain are overwhelmingly in the underclass with virtually no disposable wealth and no means of supporting the City's infrastructure via taxes.
This is a pattern that can play out, and is as I write this, in any City where a trend is established that requires an increasingly smaller fraction of the City's inhabitants to bear an increasingly larger fraction of the City's operational costs. Usually there will be warning signs many years in advance, but once this trend establishes itself it becomes politically difficult to arrest.
City management, which one can argue was not very good in the first place, found itself under increasing political pressure and did not, or could not, adjust by cutting back sufficiently on services and other expenditures, nor was it forward thinking enough to institute other measures that might have succeeded in heading off otherwise inevitable collapse. When the American auto industry went bad, the city, which was already on the precipice of collapse, experienced what will happen to any city where a too small fraction of the population is asked to bear the financial burden of maintaining infrastructure. Those who can get out will, so there will be even fewer remaining to bear the cost. Those who remain are overwhelmingly in the underclass with virtually no disposable wealth and no means of supporting the City's infrastructure via taxes.
This is a pattern that can play out, and is as I write this, in any City where a trend is established that requires an increasingly smaller fraction of the City's inhabitants to bear an increasingly larger fraction of the City's operational costs. Usually there will be warning signs many years in advance, but once this trend establishes itself it becomes politically difficult to arrest.
Ah yes, reading comprehension. I wasn't even talking about ours specifically in that one, just anything that said the word "government", which would bring out the usual Pavlovian response. Which the above illustrates quite nicely. Who needs thought, or something useless like reading comprehension, when all you have to do is repeat the same crap over and over and over?
That might be right, but too many words, we'll never know....hurts brain......reason simple........commie socialist welfare-loving liberals did it. See, much easier.