Should we bail out Detriot with our tax dollars?

[Don T. Lukbak]

Detroit was booming and had the highest per capita income of any American city until Young's gang took over.

Blaming its failure on over-dependency on one industry ignores the story of Houston's forced diversification.

[General Feuerbacher]

Let Michigan help or not

[oilfieldscum]

Originally Posted by BigLouie

Everyone thinks it started with Young but to say that is to totally misunderstand the root cause of the problem. The city just does not have the infrastructure to be a solvent city. Instead of a tax base, instead of diverse business you have urban blight that people were concern about in the 1950s! It's just a poorly designed city.

Me thincks very few if any cities are designed. The real problem with Detroit is a very long history or extremely corrupt city management.

I almost forgot. Fuck a bunch of Detroit. Too dam cold up there. I say turn it into a maximum security prison ala Escape from New York.

[Don T. Lukbak]

Originally Posted by oilfieldscum

Me thincks very few if any cities are designed.

With the notable exception of Washington D.C., designed by the Frog, Pierre L'Enfant.

I don't think it was designed for the sole purpose of robbing the rest of the country but, by cracky, that's what it has become. Fabulously successful Plunder HQ Central, with highest per capita income in America. Mostly stolen from productive individuals.

A severe localized economic downturn in Washington DC might be an indicator of prosperity returning to the rest of the nation.