OK, so is this what we have come to? Is this the 'new soup line?' Or what? I know a lot of hillbillies went to Detroit to find work during the Great Depression and for several years after. Many of those have come home. Is this what's left of Deeetroit?


My Way News - Thousands mob Detroit center in hopes of free cash

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Already a thread about this from yesterday, I believe.

money for nothing but the chix are NOT free....

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"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand

Actually the "hillbillies" flocked to Detroit for jobs during WWII when Ford was building aircraft at Willow Run at some ungodly rate (one an hour or something) Detroit later became a "black empowered" city under mayor Coleman Young and just slid downhill from there. White Flight is what they called it. As Detroit became more and more dangerous and violent, everyone left.......except for the poor black residents. The businesses packed up and relocated to the burbs as well. Now all you have is crack dealers and pit bull fighting in neighborhood basements.
My parents were raised in the area and told me Detroit was one fabulous city in it's day, and rightly so, there were a lot of weathy people and well paid engineers and other professionals. Now it's just a cesspool.

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Yeah, my daughter's husband, while he is a dual Canadian/American citizen, was raised in Detroit. She has visited there with him and tells me it's just one big dump. His sister wants to move back to Atlanta. And his parents have already left there, just haven't gotten their house sold yet.

My late husband's uncle and his wife moved back home after many years. They said crime was so bad they just had to get out of it.

I've never been. Never plan to.

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I'd hate to say it but Detroit is just one of those cities that would be better off if the city itself was flattened along with the majority of the residents living there!

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Paying families 3 grand to move out of Detroit would be a good idea.
With an official unemployment rate of 30% and 12,000 abandoned homes.
A quarter of the city is vacant, about 36 square miles left by business and homeowners.
About 400 bodies a year are being removed from cemeteries to ones outside the city because folks afraid to come to the city.

It's a city in it's death throes.