Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like? Just check out what is happening to Detroit. The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the world, but today it is a rotting, decaying, post-apocalyptic hellhole. Nearly half the men are unemployed, nearly half the population is functionally illiterate, more than half of the children are living in poverty and the city government is drowning in debt. As economic conditions have gotten worse, crime has absolutely exploded. Every single night in Detroit there are frightening confrontations between desperate criminals and exasperated homeowners. Unfortunately, the police force in Detroit has been dramatically reduced in size. When the police in Detroit are called, they often show up very late if they even show up at all. Detroit has become a lawless hellhole where violence is the currency of the streets. If you want to survive in Detroit, you better be ready to fight because there are hordes of desperate criminals that are quite eager to take literally everything that you have got. But don't look down on Detroit too much, because what is happening in Detroit will soon be happening all over America.
The following are 20 things we can learn about the future of America from the death of Detroit....
#1 People don't want to live where the stench of failure and decay is constantly in the air. Back in the 1950s, Detroit was a teeming metropolis of approximately 2 million people. According to the 2010 census, only 713,000 people live in Detroit today. The U.S. Census Bureau says that Detroit lost a resident every 22 minutes during the first decade of this century.
#2 When the economy falls apart, desperate people will do desperate things and many homeowners will fight back. Justifiable homicide in Detroit rose by a staggering 79 percent during 2011.
#3 In major cities where people are scrambling just to survive, any confrontation can quickly escalate into a life or death affair. The rate of self-defense killings in Detroit is currently 2200% above the national average.
#4 When there is not enough money to go around, a lot of local governments will choose to cut back on police protection. Ten years ago, there were approximately 5,000 police for the city of Detroit. Today, there are less than 3,000.
#5 The essential social services that you are enjoying today will not always be there in the future. Officials in Detroit recently announced that due to budget constraints, all police stations will be closed to the public for 16 hours a day.
#6 Economic decay is a breeding ground for chaos and violence. Last Friday and Saturday, a total of nine shootings were reported in the city of Detroit.
#7 More Americans than ever are realizing the benefits of self-defense. The following is what 73-year-old Julia Brown recently told the Daily....
The last time Brown, 73, called the Detroit police, they didn’t show up until the next day. So she applied for a permit to carry a handgun and says she’s prepared to use it against the young thugs who have taken over her neighborhood, burglarizing entire blocks, opening fire at will and terrorizing the elderly with impunity.
#8 When crime gets go bad that the police are powerless to stop it, vigilante groups begin to form....
In fact, crime has gotten so bad and the citizens are so frustrated by the lack of police assistance that they have resorted to forming their own organizations to fight back. One group, known as "Detroit 300", was formed after a 90-year-old woman on Detroit's northwest side was brutally raped in August.
#9 When criminals become desperate, they will steal literally anything that is not bolted down. In Detroit today, thieves have stripped so much copper wiring out of the street lights that half of all the lights in some neighborhoods no longer work.
#10 As things fall apart, eventually a time comes when it is not even safe to drive down the road in the middle of the day. 100 bus drivers in Detroit recently refused to drive their routes out of fear of being attacked on the streets. The head of the bus drivers union, Henry Gaffney, said that the drivers were literally "scared for their lives"....
“Our drivers are scared, they’re scared for their lives. This has been an ongoing situation about security. I think yesterday kind of just topped it off, when one of my drivers was beat up by some teenagers down in the middle of Rosa Parks and it took the police almost 30 minutes to get there, in downtown Detroit,” said Gaffney.
#11 One of the clearest signs of decline in America is the state of our education system. Only 25 percent of all students in Detroit end up graduating from high school. Many other major cities will soon have graduation rates similar to Detroit.
#12 When local governments run out of money they are forced to make tough choices. After already shutting down dozens of schools, officials in Detroit have announced plans to close down 16 more schools.
#13 A growing percentage of Americans cannot even read or write. This is a very frightening indication of what the future of America could look like. According to one stunning report, 47 percent of all people living in the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.
#14 Sadly, child poverty is absolutely exploding all over the United States. Today, 53.6 percent of all children that live in Detroit are living below the poverty line.
#15 The employment situation in America is a lot worse than the government is telling us. An analysis of census figures found that 48.5% of all men living in Detroit from age 20 to age 64 did not have a job in 2008.
#16 When a major city becomes a hellhole, home prices fall like a rock. The median price of a home in Detroit is now just $6000.
#17 When crime and looting become commonplace, homes in an area can become absolutely worthless. Some homes in Detroit have been sold for a single dollar.
#18 When depression-like conditions exist in an area for a number of years, large numbers of people will move on to greener pastures. As of a few years ago, there were more than 40,000 vacant properties in the city of Detroit.
#19 Just because we have a high standard of living today does not mean that will always be the case. Detroit is just a rotting shell of what it once was, and what is happening to Detroit will happen to much of the rest of America very soon. The following is what one British reporter found during his visit to Detroit....
Much of Detroit is horribly dangerous for its own residents, who in many cases only stay because they have nowhere else to go. Property crime is double the American average, violent crime triple. The isolated, peeling homes, the flooded roads, the clunky, rusted old cars and the neglected front yards amid trees and groin-high grassland make you think you are in rural Alabama, not in one of the greatest industrial cities that ever existed.
#20 When government finances collapse, politicians look for things to sell off and "privatize". Unfortunately, the Detroit city government is so broke that it is now considering selling off some of its most famous assets....
Now, the city of Detroit's most venerable assets — from Belle Isle to the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel — could end up on the auction block as the city fights for its financial life.
Facing mounting debt and the prospect of a state-appointed emergency manager, the city is looking at all options to shed expenses and raise revenue. If city officials can't come up with a viable budget plan, an emergency manager would have the power to sell assets as part of a financial takeover of Detroit.
But Detroit is not alone.
Lots of other cities all over America are flat broke and out of options.
For example, just check out what is happening in Scranton, Pennsylvania....
Mayor Christopher Doherty is blunt when asked about a court order forcing his Pennsylvania city to pay about $30 million in wages withheld from police and firefighters under a state-approved fiscal recovery plan.
“I don’t have the money,” said Doherty, 53. As for the chance of borrowing the cash, more than half of the city’s projected general-fund revenue, he added, “there’s no financial institution that’s going to give me $30 million to pay it.”
The U.S. economy never recovered from the last major financial crisis, and now another one is on the way.
As the economy crumbles, so will the fabric of our society.
The American people are terribly spoiled and they do not possess the character to handle depression-like conditions with grace and dignity.
In the years ahead, we are going to see rampant rioting and looting in our major cities. The crime sprees that we will witness in future years will be absolutely unprecedented.
Things did not have to turn out this way, but unfortunately the consequences of decades of really bad decisions are starting to catch up with us.
So what do you think the future of America will look like? Feel free to leave a comment with your opinion below....
It seems that the US is becoming extreme. Bad areas are getting worse but nice areas are getting nicer too. One such an example is Washington DC, so much richer and nicer than it was 30 or even 10 years ago. Money is sloshing around! It is interesting to see how both success and decay are local to some extent. We, outside the US, should sit down and learn to avoid some of the worst mistakes!
Living in the D.C metro area (thankfully not inside D.C) I can tell you the only reason D.C is remotely nice is because the economy is fueled by government and government contractor jobs. Without those D.C would look like Detroit in a day, or worse!
Ken Nohe: You hit the nail on the head. That’s what you get in a Third World country: pockets of extreme affluence surrounded by a lot of hardcore poverty, hardcore desperation and not enough of a middle class. Go to Bogotá, Lima, or Mexico City, and you will find that the chi-chi parts of town are downright lavish while the bad parts of town are an absolute nightmare. Some parts of Mexico City look like Beverly Hills (except that the signs are all in Spanish), wherea Tepito and Iztapalapa are parts of town that even the cops are afraid of.
Sadly, the former USA (now The Banana Republic of America) has decided to move in that direction. God help us.
ok,if this is true,than why isn’t the media covering it. To hear them tell it Detroit is back on track,and doing well. What can we do as a nation,to help? We need not only to prepare for ourselves,but also come up with solutions for the rest of the nation.after all these are our neighbors,just a thought
Seeing the increase of legal gun ownership and justifiable homicide in Detroit it would appear the people are learning the lessons most Americans have yet to learn. The only thing you can rely on is yourself, the gubmint will not help you. Detroit dug their own grave, their votes were bought with their own money and now they are paying the consequences.
Yep, we went years without guns, but not anymore.
Where do you live? I live 35 miles from Detroit, and no, that is not true, Flint and Pontiac keep getting worse and worse too.
Just another liberal utopia. Granted it’s not fair to blame them alone, anyone who voted in favor of any “free trade” policies also helped create the problem.
I thought Clint Eastwood said Detroit was setting the example for the country and making a comeback? Surely he wouldn’t lie for money? LOL. I’m so glad I grew up a John Wayne fan ^_^
Sorry to hear that
I thought the great obama was supposed to fix everything.
I like to refer to this time in our history as “The Great American Awakening.” I truly believe that in the not too distant future, the Red Sea will part and those that choose to will walk through to the other side, and will set America straight again by returning to the founding principles of self regulation and limited government. It may take awhile, but we will again prosper, and hopefully will not repeat the mistakes of the past.
Who are you going to awaken? The 47% who can’t read?
Back in the Motown heydays there was a line in a song by The Temptations in their song “Since I Lost My Baby” that went “there’s plenty of work and the bosses are paying”. Those were good times in America. Today that work is done by unpaid, untaxed robots and those bosses speak Spanish and Chinese. A lot of our problems can be traced back to Richard Nixon’s Ping Pong diplomacy with the Chinese and technological achievements of Intel, TI, IBM, Microsoft etc.
You should not blame folks for voting with their feet. It is no easy task to open for business in Detroit or the rest of the rust belt. The benefit of course is clear blue skies.
Also, what could be wrong with machines doing factory work? It is and always has been very dangerous for humans to do.
Short=bad
Long=better
You must get through the short bad, to get to the long good. Listen to the guy on the soapbox. If people are saying don’t listen to the guy on the soapbox, then move closer and pay attention.
pd
Hey bojangles, I live in the suburbs of Detroit and it’s worse than what the article describes. I looks like a war zone and I don’t go there unless I absolutely have to. Yes, why isn’t the media reporting this, that’s a very good question, maybe we should all think about that. Someone said the word “denial”.
I’ve seen several specials on Detroit over the last few years, all of them showing what has happened over the last 20 years, still,nothing can compare to going there, and I did in 2010, and stayed with an old army buddy who works in Warren, and lives in Sterling Heights. We drove down into the city, and I was friggen appaled at the 3rd world conditions, what a graveyeard of death, looks like somthing out of Armageddon..
I worked in Detroit for a few years a while back. I was fascinated by the crumbling ruins, drove around to see a lot of them after work (a couple of times I drove through neighborhoods that I can tell you now I would not go near, even in the daytime). It was sad and fascinating at the same time. I would not even THINK of doing that now, it would be highly dangerous. I would not even work in Detroit now. I hear a lot of people are carpooling now to commute there, I bet it is not just because of gas prices.
Hey GARY.
Detroit is the PERFECT example of unchecked, unfettered liberalism run amock. Keep pushing for Detroit on a national level GARY
LOL. Pretty much. Unchecked unions and ridiculously high taxation that chased anybody with a dime to invest on to greener pastures.
And corruption, lots of corruption.
I would say its more like capitalism run amok. The race to the bottom continues.
Detroit has been run for Democrats for many years, and I saw the corruption for myself first hand, don’t blame the Republicans they didn’t do it.
But, travel a few minutes down the road from Detroit, to places like Grosse Point and Ann Arbor, and things are going just fine. The fact is, the “white flight” from Detroit to the suburbs began in the 1950s.
That’s pretty much what I noticed. I visited Detroit in the late ’70s. There were three things that struck me as profound. First, the huge, multistory, magnificent skyscrapers. Second, the amount of trash that was blowing in the streets and overflowing from the trashcans. And last but not least, the numbers of poor blacks meandering around in the city. Even in the seventies, there was such a contrast between magnificent and destitution. I knew that it wasn’t a place that I’d ever want to live. It seemed that the buildings were more important than the people and the cleanliness.
There were 2 riots, a race riot in 1943 (that started some of the white flight by the 1950s) and the 1967 riot, which some call a race riot, but was more like a riot of opportunity. Between the politics and the corruption many jobs left Detroit earlier than other places when it happened because of free trade, which only made it worse for Detroit. It has been in a long decline and there are no signs it is going to stop. Maybe it does make a good model for the rest of the country.
Texas is consider is very good and stable economic that is BS. As soon as I get out the whole sale store in Houston Texas and drive down about couple miles and stop into the shopping center to eat lunch. They broke my back window and steal several boxes cigarettes and others material with many people walking by and security camera on the properties, but as we see desperate people do desperate thing any where even in front of your eyes. And every one is scare to do any thing not even call the police until I came out the restaurant and see my stuff is dropping every where on the parking lots at the shopping center with a lots of people always walking by.
The great city split into three parts, AND THE CITIES OF THE NATIONS COLLAPSED. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.(Rev. 16:19, NIV)
I just returned from a week long business trip to Detroit. I w there to faccilitate the closing of a store down town. Fortunately Michigan honors my Texas concealed handgun license otherwise I would have not gone. I use to think the pictures on this website were selective but the crumbling, half burnt down abandoned homes and businesses are everywhere. Its also the first thing our Canadian neighbors see when they cross our border. Shameful.
Great comment. I really enjoy hearing firsthand accounts like this.
Michael
In 1980 in downtown Dallas Texas we talked about Dallas becoming ANOTHER Detroit in free fall DEPRESSION, this has been coming for a VERY long time. This desaster area has been seen on every TV world wide and NOTHING good has happened to change the future of Detroit, from the police killing striking ford plant workers to todays slum town.
Perhaps the future of Detroit is in the hands of the squatters from places like INDIA or even poorer places like Bangladesh.The Mexicans don’e even want this place.The #ows should adopt Detroit as their/our 99% capital city and take over the downtown Detroit buildings?. They don’t have the money to toss them out like the NYNY scumbags with wall street bribes.
The MOST likley outcome will be a complete “Every man for himself” wasteland for the next 100 years thanks to corporate crimes.
But they are still in denial here. You should hear the newscasters, the other day they were broadcasting people who told the truth about how bad Detroit is (natives) like they should be ashamed of themselves…for telling the truth? I applaud them.
When I watch that video for that Eminem song “Beautiful” I feel really sad for Detroit and America. If Hardcore Pawn is in any way indicative of the misery of Detroit’s poverty I would’nt want to be anywhere near that pit of despair.
At the behest of several inquiries I wrote a series of articles, based on my military/civilian securitty background about firearms. You will find these in the archives of http://www.Back2theLand.com. This past year more than 11,000,000 new firearms were purchased. Couple this with the NRA commentary that there is over 90,000,000 firearms in peoples posession a few years back. The civilian firearms market was a 4 billion dollar industry
Mexico/US border firefights are now common with the intrusuibn of drug gangs. The movement for creating resistance fighters is growing, albeit illegal, but covert.More people today are joining the ranks of the American Nazi Party and KKK. Yes it is true. They see protection.
In our own peaceful rural area that is stable we are under a METH major attack problem and home breakins are becoming common. Home invasions although not common yet are mainly detered by the fact most of the community is armed.
Several of my initial prep articles was dedicated how to store food. Accordingly the new DOD law lists us preppers as terriorists. Even gardening is now on the list of terrorist supporting.
Given our current state NO NEW PRESIDENT can do anything to make a reversal of the situation in discussion. It will take decades at best to see an improvement and in the mean time as my teen age employees at this farm mature there is no hope for their generation, and they remain ignorant of what is coming.
Expect more mid east war involvement over oil and the continued decline of prosperity. There is nothing you can do but get out – yes, escape from the innercities even if you have to live in a tent. See my archives on tent living.
Firearm protection and the banding of communities and neighbors to crush this epidemic of violence reminds me of the civil war history. The civil war destruction never did recover entirely untill the 1960′s, if at all. What we are experiencing is worse.
God Bless,
Old Timer
http://www.Back2theLand.com
Eventually, when there’s nothing left in Detroit (of value, ie food, etc.), the gangs will branch out in search of other failing/weak cities to take over. Lawlessness knows no boundaries, it takes what it wants & moves on to where there’s more to take. Unless good people fight to save themselves, and their resources, they will have to move on too, or be eliminated.
Here’s how commerce happens in these areas, after breakdown: There won’t be guys with AKs in front, they’ll be on the roof. Remember the Asian-owned stores in LA during rioting, there? And NOLA? Bidness will be done through a secure barrier, no one wil be allowed into, “stores”. (to avoid flash robs) You tell them what you need, pay up/barter, goods pushed out, good luck getting home without heavily armed protection. Same for deliveries to stores. Prices will skyrocket. All this, that is, IF folks even want to hassle staying in bidness in these wasteland areas…
If you want a glimpse into what the future will be like in The Banana Republic of America (the rotting, decaying Third World horror movie that used to be Los Estados Unidos), Detroit is definitely a good place to look at. Another good place to look at is Athens, Greece. I visited Athens on some business in 2008 and had a wonderful time seeing Syntagma Square, Monastiraki, the Parthenon, etc.; several weeks after I got back to the BRA, all hell was breaking loose in the streets of Athens and the first of the Greek riots were underway. It was chilling. Had I gone to Athens several weeks later than I did, I would have experienced all the “fun” first hand. Ah, but as Gerald Celente has often said, it’s only a matter of time before the type of unrest we’re seeing in Athens comes to American cities. In the words of Signore Celente, “when the money stops flowing down to the man on the street, the blood begins to flow in the streets”—and the blood will definitely be flowing in the BRA.
Greece is a perfect example of what happens when a developed country UN-develops and millions of formerly middle class people find themselves struggling to survive; it isn’t pretty. Take a good look at the mayhem in Athens because that’s what cities in The Banana Republic of America are going to look like in the not-so-distant future.
Speaking of banana republics, some other places that offer a glimpse into the BRA’s grim future include Caracas, San Salvador, Guatemala City, Johannesburg, Port Moresby and Ciudad Juarez. The amount of violent crime that plagues those cities is a reflection of how dangerous things can get when you have a dirt-poor majority, a filthy rich majority and not enough of a middle class. Desperate people do desperate things, and there are a lot of desperate people in Third World countries who feed their families with drug trafficking, carjacking, kidnapping and violent home invasions. To the tourist who gets mugged in Zona 1 en la Ciudad de Guatemala, it’s a nasty bump on the head; to the mugger, it’s dinner for the wife and kids.
So, if any of my Canadian friends wonder what it’s like to have a Third World hellhole in their back yard, all they have to do is drive south, present their passports and cross the border into The Banana Republic of America (formerly Los Estados Unidos).
Greece a developed country? Since when?
Greece wasn’t always the economic basketcase that is has become. In terms of health care, education, commerce, infrastructure and overall standard of living, Greece had a lot going for it. I stayed in a B&B in Omonia, which I learned is considered a less-than-desirable part of Athens–and Omonia was a paradise compared to the bad parts of town in BRA and Latin American cities. But when you have millions of folks who used to enjoy a middle class lifestyle being plunged into miserable poverty, that’s a recipe for disaster–which is why “burn baby burn” is a widespread sentiment in Athens these days.
They have Starbucks. I saw the trashed remains of one of their stores on the news. I would say that makes them a Developed Country.
A big part of the immediate problem is the huge size of government that drains us of our wealth to squander it on themselves, warfare, welfare and their rich friends. Essentially corporations and government collude to rig the economy in their own favor at the expense of the majority; corporate lobbyist write the laws, Congress passes them, and the President sign on. Welfare just bribes those at the bottom to vote to continue this system of plunder and control. It is like we live in pre-revolution France where common men are exploited to support the Aristocracy.
And the elephant in the room is energy which has reached peak production, cannot be expanded, and will decline in availability as depletion exceed new discoveries. It was exploitation of cheap energy that fueled the last 400 years of economic expansion, which in turn fueled a remarkable explosion in human population from 1/2 billion up to the present 7 billion; all of human history to reach 1/2 billion, which was all renewable fuels could support, and then in just 400 years our numbers exploded by a factor of 14. So what do you think will happen to the human population as industrial production declines for want of sufficient energy to fuel it? The answer is Detroit in spades. This is not a bright future for our children and grandchildren.
There are technologies to extract energy from the vacuum that you would not believe. Totally free, infinite and nonpolluting electrical energy has been extracted from the aether for over 70 years now. But the rich elites will not release this technology until you and six and a half billion more of your ilk are dead and buried. That is on their agenda too, my friend.
“States with the most homes in foreclosure”
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/states-with-the-most-homes-in-foreclosure.html
The transformation from ‘however it is in whatever city you are in’ to ‘how it is now in the city of Detroit’ will probably occur very, very quickly.
The destruction of Detroit fortunately happened in slow-motion, over a period of fifty years, or so. Plenty of time for most to flee, and most did.
Senseless wars, peak oil, overconsumption, sovereign, state, local and private debt, high unemployment and self-serving, cannibalistic leaders will bring it quick. Like, boy howdy quick.
If you live in any American city, be ready … in whatever way you see fit.
America is pretty much equally divided liberal and conservative. You can go anywhere in America, speak to someone for a short time and determine if they are liberal or conservative. Liberals talk the same, act the same, want the same vote the same. Likewise with conservatives; they talk the same, act the same, want the same and vote the same.
We can notice that liberals are led by a spirit of liberalism and conservatives are led by a spirit of conservatism. This vast population of liberals make up the body of liberalism whose head is the Democratic Party; same with this vast population of conservatives are the body of conservatism whose head is the Republican Party.
Liberals put their faith in liberalism and conservatives put their faith in conservatism.
Those who are of the Democratic party are led by the spirit of liberalism and those of the Republican Party are led by the spirit of conservatism.
My bible tells me, those who are of God are led by the Spirit of God and make up the body of Christ. We can’t be led by two spirits. We have to make a choice. This liberal/conservative world view has destroyed this country. Show me how either party has the greater moral standing.
The truth is, this country is under a curse. The God of the bible says, If you keep my commandments, I will open the floodgates of wealth on you. If you turn your back on me, I will curse you. We have been propagandized into worshipping wall street for our blessings; wall street trickles down on us.
Amen! Guess what? It’s not so much an issue of conservatives and liberals. We, the people, sinned and keep sinning. Is everybody guilty? Of course not.
At the same time we keep blaming others. The Mexicans, the Muslims, blacks, Indians, Democrats, Republicans, etc…
All of them are guilty for our problems except ourselves. We do nothing wrong, so nobody sinned.
The results and consequences are different.
The Lord works in mysterious ways..maybe Iraqi refugees could be relocated here…they’re used to living in a war zone.
They voted for the a-holes. This is a self inflicted wound. I see the same thing happening in Philadelphia. The state tried to help but the money was used build an opera house and ball parks. meanwhile 50% of the 20-29 year olds are unemployed in the whole region. When the school day is over at my old school it looks like a SWAT team is present to make sure that there are no problems. Wow.
If Ron Paul does not get in the white house I’ll be looking for a life raft.
You’ve got to see this. The Obama administrationn predicts that the statutory debt limit, which is currently $16.394 trillion, will be reached shortly before the election in November.
This has to be the definition of insanity.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/uh-marriner-eccles-we-have-problem-obama-predicts-he-will-breach-debt-ceiling-two-months-electi
It’s almost as if our elected officials are purposely trying their damnedest to bankrupt the country.
El Pollo de Oro
is right..
I live right next door to the Dertoit whole life. I can tell you 1st hand that as a Canadian you feel like you are in the movie “Mad Max”.. threw most parts of Detroit.
Gerald Celente also said ..” when people lose everything they lose it”
Not that I would take Gerald Celente advice on buying gold … but his social philosophy is good.
Don’t listen to Celente on buying gold that way you can use your paper money to keep warm starting a fire, Peek
LOL good one !
” The American people are terribly spoiled & they do not possess the character to handle depression like conditions with grace & dignity.” So sad but so true,the all about me mentality in this country is unbelievable. People pull out in front of you while driving park where it is convenient for them the list goes on & on. It is all a perfect example of this country turning its back on GOD. He is the only one who can help us now.
10 years ago 5,000 police, 2 million people, today 713,000 people 3,000 police? The population dropped by 2/3 rds, the police dropped by less than half. Sound like they should be able to handle it….What is really going on? 5,000 police could handle 2 million 10 yrs ago, 3,000 police now can’t handle 713,000 population? Getting lazy?
Alice
It’s quite possible that the law abiding left Detroit thereby leaving the amount of criminals the same or practically so. If there is no work it stands to reason that many of those remaining are not working. I can infer that those that left were seeking employment elsewhere.
The ratio or Bad/Good has probably been altered.
The MEDIA. . .the mainstream MEDIA is completely owned and operated by the globalist banking cartel that created this piss-hole situation in the first place. This same MEDIA is in the business of telling the SHEEPLE where to put their cabbage heads. They instruct the sheelple on what diversions they need to be thinking about so that the banking elite can then wrest the rest of America’s wealth from them. This MEDIA is NOT going to honestly report on anything. They will never tell you the true nature of the disasters that their bosses are creating
Welcome to the end of civilization as we knew it. The Omega phase has been set in motion. Once Greece deteriorates further and the government is overthrown, watch greater Europe erupt into flames. Then the backlash to our economy will be felt full force; while Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz and threatens our allies in the region. The polarizing of the world toward the last world war has begun. We haven’t learned…after millenia of evolution, we are still merely neanderthals fighting over the waterhole… It was a pleasure knowing all of you. God have mercy on us all…
Simply the end result of the diversity the insane liberals shove down our throat,
My question actually arises from a comparison of two cities that have the same basic industry, Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. Why has Detroit become a hellhole and Windsor hasn’t? What if anything can be learned from such a comparison? In other words what did Windsor do that Detroit didn’t or vice-versa?
You cannot make a comparison between the two in that way. Windsor is one tenth the size of Detroit. It does not have the history of fraught race relations. And in fact it too has had an issue with de-industrialization. Some of that slack has been taken up by the casino complex.
Mad Max coming soon to a citi to you
The problem is systemic; the economic system established in 1913 is a polished scheme of mediavial era that economically devastated nations of Europe. It confiscates money from productive society and transfers it to “financiers.”
The Federal Reserve BOG and FRBNY have concealed $7 trillion in profit from the government over the past six years. The Treasury auction accounts handled by the FRBNY conceal the transfer. RIP OFF BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE posted at http://www.scribd.com/doc/49040689 has been filed as an exhibit in a whistleblower suit.
Here is my prediction:
Hotlanta, Georgia: SEE YA!
Lost Angeles, CA: BUH-BYE!
Windy **********, IL: UP IN FLAMES!
Houston, TX: IT’S ALL OVER, LET’S GO!
Philly, PA: FUHGEDABOUDIT!
The destruction of the TWIN TOWERS was the end
of America, as I knew it. It has nowhere to go
now, except into the sewer. It’s sad, it’s
scary. All of the ‘ladders’ have been pulled
up, if you’re not in the boat now, life is
gonna get real rough, real soon!
To Michael,
Twenty good points. Compliments.
To the rest,
That nearly half the population is functionally illiterate is very convenient for those in power. You get the idea that all this is happening on purpose, not coincidence.
To Mr. Obama,
If this was my responsibility (in the end), I would be very ashamed and would not have such a big mouth on television.
This is what we can expect if we let the Dems continue on with their Tax & Spend ways. They have no fiscal sense or sense of right & wrong. They do not understand Capitalism and are determined to turn America into a Socialist Crap hole called Amerika. Give them money and they give it away like the dolts they are.
The fundamental problem is a lack of JOBS!!!
Both parties have allowed American jobs to be shipped to countries like China and India. So NO, it is not just liberals to blame.
They were not “American” jobs. And nobody “shipped” them. Stop the redistribution machine and there will be jobs.
well it was American companies that shipped the jobs to China, India,Vietnam, etc.
Free trade has been the final nail in the coffin of this country. It must be stopped.
Wow, how lucky I’ve been! Walking around Detroit at all times of day and night and not a scratch on me. It’s not a beautiful place, but it’s nowhere near as bad as this article makes it out to be.
@nightgaunt
There are always a couple of happy pigs in a sty, a smiling devil in hell who likes the heat, someone laughing in a bloody battlefield…
…and someone who somehow manages to survive in the sewer that is Detroit.
Downtown is actually pretty nice and very safe, and since there are 700k people in a city built for 2 million, you can walk/drive for blocks and blocks without even seeing another person. There are plenty of bad parts, but most of the place is like a ghost town.
A higher percentage of police cannot cope with an even higher crime rate. Half the people there can’t read. What are they going to do to eat? They’re going to rob, steal and murder.
None of the things that have been seen going on in this country has been by mistakes. If those devils in DC can come out and tell you that they are going to pass a certain new law and the very next day have a 10,000 page document describing just what it is that you will have to submit to, then for sure they knew all about using Detroit as the experiment city to see just what would happen when they cause this kind of destruction to go nationwide. Now you can understand why they opened the FEMA camps and started hiring X-military to staff those camps with. If those fools in DC think that they will be albe to handle the situation when the SHTF, think again. They are human and make mistakes and thinking they can control out of control people is one of those big mistakes. Let them run to their unground caves. Just maybe when they are all sitting inside watching the hell unleashed on the surface, we, that 99% hopfully can come together and seal them in and get on with the right to life and live according to real human beings.
Anything to do with the kind of people that inhabit the city? I mean, people who cannot tend for themselves. They have reached a critical mass there. There are other places that subscribe to liberal ideologies and public unions controls (not that I am advocating those), such as New York, but flourish nonetheless. What it means that there are multiple factors, affecting society’s successes or failures, and biological and cultural component plays an important role there. I do not believe that any city in the civilized world can reach such a state as Detroit’s in peaceful times, regardless of the government’s policy.
Where will the illiterate parasites go when they are done pillaging Detroit?
Look at what happens when men put their faith in other men and not yourself and God.
Our politicians have sold us out by passing laws to allow companies to move without disregard for our future. Those laws were put in place in the 60′s and 70′s and were sped up with NAFTA and GATT.
We went along with an education system that does not and has not taught us any useful skills for 25 years, we have failed our children by not teaching them self sufficiency and a meaningful way to make their way in the world. We were duped by listening to other people instead of taking our lives into our hands and doing the hard work.
We allowed our government to set up a system whereby just the use of our money puts us in debt and our whole nations soveriegnty in the hands of international bankers who charge us for the use of our money and then move on when we become to uppity and demand a better piece of the pie.
we better start using some critical thinking if we are to survive and not degenerate into what detroit has become, an illiterate hell-hole that is controlled by psychopathetic leaders that have convinced these poor souls that if they keep doing the same thing and allow the elected elite to do the same thing than all will be well.
Things to think about: Is it in our interest to not drill for oil. Is it in our best interest to give our kids to an education system that tells them to be a philosopher or a womens studies pro, charge them 100k and then meet them on the OWS sites like they aren’t the problem. Is it in our best interest to keep spending what we don’t have be debt slaves to someone down the line. America wake up and do the heavy lifting now or we are done. I live 45 miles south of detroit and it’s like a cancer coming our way.
I’ve made my decision and have educated my kids and un-taught them what they learned. I am prepared and will move out and defend myself on the way. And in the future I will figuratively put a bullet through any politicians head who says they are there to help the little guy. Look at detroit and you will see 50 years of politicians with that attitude. they made themselves rich,moved on and left the corpse. Depend on youself and God and you might make it through!
Check out this image of Detroit vs. Shanghai over a similar historical time-span.
http://www.thedeathofamerica.org/images/shanghai-detroit.jpg
obama says america is in recovery and jobs are back unemployment is here so this article isnt right detroit is an upscale place with no crime ask obama he will tell you,crime is down you dont need guns the police will protect you,now you people listen to our goverment they dont lie
So that’s it is it, Kathy Smith ? Resign yourself to the inevitable. Renounce your own ability to get out and do something and make a change to the society you’re so quick to criticize. Only GOD can get you out of the whole eh ? Discount the fact that during these centuries, GOD’s been omnipresent and assisted you to get yourself into this mess then, cause of course that wouldn’t work with your theory would it. HA !
Its liberalism stupid! It doesn’t work.
Detroit has its problems, for sure, but it is still a vibrant place. There are still talented people doing positive things. Detroitblogger John Carlisle has been chronicling it for years here: http://metrotimes.com/archives/authors?author=Detroitblogger%20John.
I grew up in Toledo, which became an economic satellite to Detroit, much like Flint. Detroit’s economic implosion isn’t limited to Detroit.
To be fair, though, there are some beautiful suburbs surrounding Detroit.
ALL of America’s redound to one single enabler of Leviathan, the unconst’l fiat debt money of the Federal Reserve private for profit monopoly cartel of economy ruining and currrency debasing vultures.
They did this same thing in 1907 as cause celeb for a Weimar style central bank designed by that designer Paul M Warburg, a Rothschild agent like Hamilton was, and almost every TreasSect since has been a henchman of the biggest banks. Who BTW also own the FEDs shares and just bailed themselves out by threatening martial law.
Ron Paul is the ONLY man in my lifetime that not only understands the history of money and banking, but BECAME a legislator for the very reason he saw this coming when Nixon severed our last link between dollars and gold reserves.
And its the FED who NOW OWN’s American’s gold, just as all the world’s central banksters do.
IMO, our revolution was planned by the Rothschilds to take from their debt servant KGIII our vast nation of natural resources. Hamilton’s 1st Bank the means to make whole again the elites who bought the bonds.
When Jefferson nixed it’s recharter, Rothschild called for war, 1812, to indebt us back into the 2nd BankUS, which Jackson then killed, paying off the debt our first and last time.
Then the Rothschilds financed/fomented both sides of the the CW to Nationalize (centralize) Banking. The wedges thin end.
They created 1907 as the impetus for the FED which the banksters themselves colluded to foist upon us.
As Morgan and Rockefeller are BOTH creatures of Rothschild, and they run the BIS which runs the central banks, it will be no surprise that the Rothschild dynasty’s purported wealth is estimated to be in the triple digit trillions.
And my gut says NO ONE in the whole world sits on a larger hoard of gold bullion than they do. Their bankster minions are who traded their fiat at interest paper for the entire worlds’s gold reserves that is mere fractional collateral for the debts nations owe to these private banksters.
Ron Paul 2012!!!
End the FED, our founders KNEW 100% why only specie allows economic freedom. The King was in hock to shylock up to his eyeballs.
My Dear Americans, I believe you and the rest of the world are experiencing the equivalent of the fall of The Roman Empire. Like The Romans, you have spent too much on your armies and spread your armies too far, (and that is not a criticism), thereby becoming weak at home. The last one to fall was the British Empire, due to the expense of 2 world wars and the cost of trying to hold an empire together. If we keep doing the same things, we won’t get different results. Which Empire will be next? China? India? Wheels turn that is what is happening in the U.S.
I came across this website by accident and I started reading and weeping at the same time. I feel we can take back Detroit with hard work. Why not and start production again and can be done. People have to want it. I thought about it and can work and yes, I have a beginning of plan.
Maybe Detroit is unsalvegeable. I hope not. It appears to be a beautiful city, in spite of its difficulties. A few mop-up jobs here and there,clean a few brick and carports, and it may even become the new Motown!
L.A. may be toast though.
The same for my hometown of Phoenix, Arizona.
I came across this website by accident and I started reading and weeping at the same time. I feel we can take back Detroit with hard work. Why not and start production again and can be done. People have to want it. I thought about it and can work and yes, I have a beginning of plan. How about having the corporation give back to cities and so people can start building and what about the deficit they can pay a nice check to the Federal government every year. We would not even have to print money for while. This country can be booming in a couple of years and jobs for everyone. I am believe we can do anything we want and we are all true survives…
We need to go back to less government and people need to be responsible for themselves. Our jobs need to stop going over seas or maybe we can go overseas as well. We need to stop making Europe into the crony capitalism that they hate and we do not want socialism. Our system was not build on that. Remember we are the people of US not We the Corporations of USA. We are the people to perform a more perfect union to establish justices insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United State of America. People need to know America History and take back but we have to be responsible as well. We cannot break the law neither and we have to go about situation in adult productive manner.
It just does not matter anymore. Republican or Democrat. They are all bought off by Corporate America. Citizens United will only add to the misery.
Put down the drugs and alcohol, take up the Bible. Put God back into the schools and government. Look to the ways of our parents and grandparents who made this country strong. Repent, ask for forgiveness and blessings. Work out differences, stick together. Turn the burnt out buildings of Detroit into greenhouses, chicken coops and stables. At least that would keep everyone from starving. Then, get together and plan a new Detroit. Do not stoop to giving up your humanity or your soul.
ANYONE on here that still blames the LIBERALS, or the DEMS or the GOP, is really being simple minded.
It is our whole system of govt that is off the mark now. it doesnt matter what party, and NO PARTY ALONE CAN BE BLAMED FOR THIS!
TO BLAME LIBERALS IS JUST SAYING, “HEY, IM A STUPID IDIOT WHO STILL HOLDS TO MY STUPID BELIEFS MORE THAN I PAY ATTENTION TO THE FACTS!”
Enough with the party *****************.
the biggest thing you can do is educate yourself. One of the best places I have found is
http://www.youtube.com/user/LearnLiberty