Detroit!!!
December 30, 2009
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Having lived in Detroit in 1968-69, I find this quite shocking! It isn't the Detroit I remember. I find the decline amazing!
I have lived in a right to work state most of my life, so I have no doubt that the unions are largely to blame, but if this truly is what Detroit looks like today, it breaks my heart! I have so many plesant memories of the city.
--by on 12/30/09 Lives: USA
One of the most important things to remember about socialism ...ie Detroit– or coercion of any kind – is it fails eventually because human beings have an innate desire for liberty and a strong need for personal property rights. In fact, the origins of government lie in the need of agricultural communities to protect themselves from violence and theft. So it is particularly ironic that in more recent times, it is government itself that has more frequently played the role of bandit. When you start taxing people at extreme rates to pay for socialist "benefits," when you start telling them which schools their children must attend, when you start giving jobs away to people based on race instead of ability... you quash human freedom, which bogs down productivity... and if continued for long enough, leads to social collapse.
--by on 12/30/09 Lives: USA
So did anyone happen to notice they showed the mosque the glass on Ford Road and the glass house among all the blight and devastation of Detroit? What in the hell is that all about? Has Dearborn become synonymous with slum that is now Detroit?
Where in the hell did this guy get the $11100.00 per student number?
Teachers unions, that is a given! Tenure is a horrible thing! It needs to go.
It’s also no secret that the auto industry didn’t fail because of the lack of fuel efficient cars. It was because the Big 3 built garbage for years! Only when we had alternatives to the big 3 did they start making better cars. Problem is, it’s too late!
The UAW, like teachers unions, serves to protect the worst employees. I think everyone deserves descent health care, but I think they should be able to pick up a little of the tab.
Detroit’s #1 import is Methamphetamine, hey, at least someone is making money!
Urban farms in the shadow of the garbage incinerator. Ummmm Tastee!
This video is simply horrifying! In addition to this, I take a ride around my old neighborhood in East Dearborn in the Fordson area and I have to say, it is beginning to look just like Detroit’s area of Warrandale and Rosedale did just a couple years ago. The blight of Detroit is spreading systemically throughout the area.
Leave it to our city leaders to usher the blight in. It will be a legacy of our previous administration and I see no changes at all.
--by on 12/30/09 Lives: Michigan
Russ, Jim from Lowe's here....glad you mentioned this to me. Yep....I'm crying with you. It's very, very sad and I just hope that I have enough retirement power stashed away to get away from this armpit of America that is now called "Detroit". I can't get far enough away. My growing up and living what was once a great city from 1953-1977, I'm glad that I lived in and can remember those glory days.....but you could see the decline coming. I hope that it doesn't keep declining......what a shame.
--by on 12/30/09 Lives: Detroit area
Dearborndale,
I realize it may seem easy for you to blame "the previous administration" on ALL the bad things that are happening.
It is TRULY the American dream, that has become the American GREED that is the TRUE problem here.
People USED to flock to America to experience the American DREAM - for THEMSELVES to make something for THEMSELVES in this great land of "opportunity".
Opportunity is defined:
1. an appropriate or favorable time or occasion: Their meeting afforded an opportunity to exchange views.
2. a situation or condition favorable for attainment of a goal.
3. a good position, chance, or prospect, as for advancement or success.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Opportunity
Nowadays, people flock to America to experience the American GREED - to receive free handouts. They dont want opportunity (or chance, or prospect) they want everything handed to them, provided by OUR government. They don't want to EARN it, they think they are ENTITLED to it.
Things will NOT get better here, until WE realize that WE need to get rid of THIS GREED and desire for the Government to provide us EVERYTHING.
As far as FoMoCo HQ being in the video, this Southeast Michigan is REALLY part of the "Detroit Region" - and the scenes that are in the video are spreading across the ENTIRE Region, yes - even in Dearborn.
--by on 12/31/09 Lives: Detroit area
The apocalypse of Detroit started back in the 1960’s. The Detroit Riot accelerated the stigma of Detroit and fear in the city. The 2 million people of the Detroit metro area at the time were traumatized during that hot summer of 1967. We watched the anarchy in the streets, the looting of thousands of businesses, sniper fire and buildings burned down followed by brutal martial law. It was ‘the day the music died’. It’s no wonder the white people and businesses fled Detroit in droves to the suburbs and beyond. It’s interesting to note that Detroit was named America’s ‘Model City’ in 1967 a leader in liberal race relations with Democratic mayor Jerome Cavanagh who also headed the Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities. The major catalyst for disaster was the city’s solution for revitalization, and that solution was the Urban Renewal Project. This called for the slum areas around the down town riverfront to be demolished and its residents displaced. Built in its place were modern high rise housing and medical complexes along with a new expressway. The beautiful new housing was not designed for the low income folks, so they had to move to the crowded black inner city. Without a solution to ease the low income housing problem in these areas a rebellion ensued. Having lived in Detroit’s ‘inner city’ and in ‘Lafayette Park’ it’s of little wonder the class warfare of the ‘have’ and ‘have not’ will continue to be the mantra of those who advocate a redistribution of wealth. Detroit may end up being America’s first ‘Government Owned and Operated City’ at tax payer expense. Why? Because it’s just too big to fail.
--by on 12/31/09 Lives: USA
Detroit may have many many problems but Meth use is not one of them. Alchohol, Crack, marijuana, heroin, perscription narcotic abuse and "club drugs" like exstacy, and Roofies are the prevalent drugs in Detroit. Meth is the drug of choice in poor white rural areas and while Detroit is many thingslol it is not a poor rural white area.
This can be confirmed by checking any number of official websites.
Was it the UAW who refused to build more reliable cars and who refused to design more trendy and attractive cars throughout the 80s and 90s? Nope. What an idiot. He give thinking conservatives a bad name.
This video has a number of incorrect "facts". The Jobs Bank no longer exists in the UAW. also The amount of money spent per student is way off. Steven Crowder is nothing more than an idiot hack 3rd class reporter who employs sloppy reporting and lazy fact checking. Oh wow look at all the crappy buildings!
Go on youtube and look at this man's other videos. here represents a wasted opportunity because a sane reporter could've offered more than this obviously unbalanced screed and actually educated some people and perhaps inspired a dialogue instead of a shouting platform for low education racists.
--by on 1/8/10 Lives: Detroit area
I've grew up in Detroit and have lived in the Detroit area all my life. I'd like to share a few observations.
I'm convinced that Detroit's problems center around the breakdown of the family. Many, many children are raised by a single partnt, or no parent at all (Grandparent, Aunt, etc.). You can throw all the money you have at the problem but it will never go away until the family is made whole again.
No government policy was more devastating to Detroit than was "forced busing" in the 1970s. Many of my neighbors hung in there after the 1967 riots. However, when busing was enacted, there was an immediate exodus to the suburbs. To this day, with the current bust of the housing bubble, I have not seen as many "For Sale" signs as I did back then.
Politicians completely misunderstood the fear responsible parents felt for their children and the outrage they felt towards the Government interfering in their lives. To this day, Metro Detroit remains one of the most polarized areas of the nation. The City of Detroit, where the Downtown area is nearly deserted, has suffered greatly because of this.
--by on 1/15/10 Lives: Detroit area
Mr. Crowder, you can remove the word 'Detroit' and edit in the name of just about ANY major city in the United States and lay your lame, un-researched factoids out there and come up with the same story. From Los Angeles to Philly to Miami to Dallas, etc. etc. etc... You can find all of the same footage of abandoned homes and buildings everywhere, Detroit is in no way 'exclusive' to this. It doesn't take a genius, which you're certainly not, to figure out that many major cities in the U.S. have crappy, run down hell-hole areas in them. Sure Detroit may probably be one of the more run down per square mile, but don't act like it's out there in ruins all by itself, it's certainly not 'exclusive' to the decay. Don't quit your day job, and for God sakes, I hope this isn't it!!
--by on 1/16/10 Lives: Detroit area
The people of Detroit seem to be very content to vote for criminals and thugs, but than what else is left in Detroit? Everyone of any consequence who had the ability to pack up and go has left. Those who can’t afford to leave will be robbed and raped by their neighbors.
The good news is that we now have people like Dave Bing, Robert Bob and Charles Pugh who have not yet been corrupted by the slime in city hall. Just you wait and see however, they will not last or will become as corrupt as their predecessors. Look at what happened to Dennis Archer. This guy did more to bring Detroit back from the brink of death and the people of Detroit, in the infinite wisdom ran him out of town because “he wasn’t black enough.”
I guarantee that people like Monica Conyers and Katie Kilpatrick will be back and will run for elected office again. I also predict that they will win offices due to the unprecedented stupidity of the same people who got them elected in the first place.
--by on 1/17/10 Lives: Dearborn
I hate that guy. I agree with 'Zin'. That reporter isn't really helping anyone. To him this is just a story. I grew up there--my family still lives down there.
--by on 2/12/10 Lives: Michigan
STOP!!! I am a younger generation and I love the city of Detroit. There is still a lot of beauty left and no one looks at those good parts. I didn't get to see Detroit in the 60's or 70's but I have seen it rapidly decline in the years that I have been here. I grow up in Southwest Detroit and have lived in various parts of Detroit though out my life but I can remember when we could camp in our back yard and now I wouldn't even want to walk down the street. Even though I didn't grow up in the better years of Detroit I have still had the chance to see some of Detroit's beauty. Although a lot of people want put the blame else where WE the people all need to stop and look at the big picture. It's not just our elected official. We the people put them in office. WE have elected the failures. SO WHO IS FAILING? Our elected officials aren't the only ones at fault and aren't the only ones that can do some thing about some of these issues. As another comment stated it's all about GREED. It's all about what we can get but not what we can give back. , We do need more people like Dave Bing or Charles Pugh. Officials that have also seen the beauty of Detroit. There is a lot of poverty in the city and we have put a lot of it on our selves. It doesn't take a lot for some one to get off their butts and clean their yards or the empty lot next door or keep calling the city about the burnt down house down the street or the pack of dogs running the neighbor hood. If every one would stop thinking about just them selves. Help out a neighbor in need. Help out a family member. There's no excuse, I am a single mother of four and I help out any where I can. Stop being Lazy. Much of the issues are senseless ones that could have been avoid. PEOPLE JUST DON'T CARE ANY MORE. ( maybe this isn't just a story to him. How do you know he didn't grow up there and he's trying to do his part, to open the peoples eyes. ) I don't see any one else jumping up to do the job. Would you have done his job? NO. JUST LIKE MOST PEOPLE. It's doesn't matter if some of his facts incorrect or if he is doing it for self purposes what ever the reason he did it doesn't matter. I don't think this video was just to point out the decay of Detroit but to open our eyes to what WE the people can do. WE NEED TO OPEN OUR EYES AND TAKE A STAND. WE ARE THE CITY. There would be no city, no officials or UAW with out us. STOP ELECTING THE FAILURES. PUT SOME BLAME ON YOUR SELF. Start calling the city or state rep. Start cleaning up our city and stop waiting for one one to do it for you. Stop just thinking about your self and do on to other as you would have them do on to you. It's like this because of us. EVERY ONE NEEDS TO STOP MAKING EXCUSES!!!!!! IT'S ALL EXCUSES!!!!!! DETROIT DON"T SUCK THE PEOPLE DO!!!!!!!
--by on 2/15/10 Lives: USA