Retailers Head for Exits in Detroit

[risktaker]

Yeah, I see this more & more.

People who own houses paid off getting government assistance, medical benefits, utility discounts, free schooling, food stamps/vouchers. Free housing for others.

And then there are those poor saps who just fall deeper & deeper through the cracks. Often, those are the hardworking, or former veterans who gave it their best shot and came up short but for one reason or another are kept off the potlick'n line.

The "system" is somehow encouraging people to do this shit!

Quote from TGregg:

Only suckers work for a living and pay their bills. Better to take the fun path of the grasshopper, then use the government to take from the ant during winter - the best of both worlds, woot!

 

[TGregg]

TIME article:

If ever a city stood as a symbol of the dynamic U.S. economy, it was Detroit. It was not pretty. It was, in fact, a combination of the grey and the garish: its downtown area was a warren of dingy, twisting streets; the used-car lots along Livernois Avenue raised an aurora of neon. But Detroit cared less about how it looked than about what it did—and it did plenty. In two world wars, it served as an arsenal of democracy. In the auto boom after World War II. Detroit put the U.S. on wheels as it had never been before. Prosperity seemed bound to go on forever—but it didn't, and Detroit is now in trouble.

Take a guess on when that was written, then go read the rest:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,873465,00.html

 

[4444CJones4444]

Quote from hoffmanw:

Retailers Head for Exits in Detroit...

This is news? Pull out a map and study Michigan and Ohio. The inner cities have been dying for a long time. People have fled Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus for decades now. Going a little further out, St. Louis isn't much better. Indy is okay in the city, I guess, but if you have any money you do your best to live in the burbs. The only city in the area worth living in, in that part of the country anyway, is Chicago, but Chicago is Chicago.

Once people and businesses start migrating from the suburbs back to the inner city in that part of the Midwest, THAT will be news.

 

[ByLoSellHi]

Quote from 4444CJones4444:

This is news? Pull out a map and study Michigan and Ohio. The inner cities have been dying for a long time. People have fled Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus for decades now. Going a little further out, St. Louis isn't much better. Indy is okay in the city, I guess, but if you have any money you do your best to live in the burbs. The only city in the are worth living in that are is Chicago, but Chicago is Chicago.

Once people and businesses start migrating from the suburbs back to the inner city in that part of the Middle West, THAT will be news.

You can add Gary City, Indianapolis, and many towns in Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, Alabama (check out Jefferson County), Mississipi (the Gulf Coast revival fizzled) and increasingly, Atlanta to that list.

Anyone in a service sector state that thinks they're immune from the woes of manufacturing in the U.S. is going to be in for a very rude wake up call if they already haven't been rung.

 

[Anaconda]

Quote from nutmeg:

Sometimes I think this is planned, based on the fact that I have faith in the intelligence of our gov't and forecasters.

Then on the other hand, how can gov't be so dumb?

It's either apathy, or this ship is too big a ship to steer.

I'm inclined to believe the ship is too big to steer. Too many pilots.

Or maybe everything is going according to plan. And you're either too dumb & too naive to realize it, or, you can't seem to accept the reality & truth.