Detroit Bankrupt
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wkmac
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Be glad to have some friends take you there, if you want to stake out you piece of paradise.
wkmac
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For someone who claims to oppose oligarchy, you seem to fear efforts to de-couple them from power. Maybe you aren't what you seem.
Yeah, that's it!
Nope, just have been to Detroit recently.
island1fox
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RR,
Lets not have anyone "risk" their money and try to get Detroit out of Bankruptcy ??? So what if "Hedge funds" made a profit and "re-built " Detroit----much better than my tax money doing it !!
Island, I have no problem with privatizing the garbage, or even the transportation and streetlights, but what I do have a problem with is an oligarch stooge coming in and decimating the DIA. Now if these 'hedge funds' buy the art and place it on permanent loan to the DIA, I think I could work with that.
I would like to also point out that you were well served by placing "risk" in quotes. Air quotes would have been better, though.
moreluck
golden ticket member
I say cut the pay of congressmen to offset ANY loans to dying cities that the republicans refuse to help get back onto their feet. THE GOP destroyed Michigan with Reagan, Bush, Bush and THEY need to pay for it today.
You dont like what you see in detroit?
Blame Reagan.
Dont like that? Too bad.
Peace
TOS
Detroit has nothing to do with democratic mayors and everything to do with OUTSOURCING american jobs. A trend RONALD REAGAN started, Daddy BUSH made worse with NAFTA and baby BUSH losing 11 million jobs to overseas countries.
You could have had republican mayors and the outcome would have been IDENTICAL.
Detroit is the shining example of pure capitalism. Take american jobs overseas to generate higher profits for executives and shareholders at the low low price of the AMERICAN TAXPAYERS.
Nothing is for free in america, and the republicans keep finding ways to toss the responsibility of the country onto the backs of whatever is left of the american middle class tax base.
Ya, you got it all figured out moreluck.
Peace
TOS
The Detroit Free Press has been a good source for this topic. Here is a starting point:
How Detroit went broke: The answers may surprise you and don't blame Coleman Young | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
Continuing coverage:
City of Detroit files for bankruptcy | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
How Detroit went broke: The answers may surprise you and don't blame Coleman Young | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
Continuing coverage:
City of Detroit files for bankruptcy | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
AWESOME SOURCE of information ROADRUNNER!
Too bad its too complicated for the FOX news watchers to understand. Its alot easier to blame Obama and the democratic mayors then reality.
Peace
TOS
wkmac
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UnconTROLLed
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Both parties agreed to NAFTA and Clinton fully endorsed the bill, signed it.
WHERE DO YOU GET "BOTH PARTIES AGREED TO NAFTA?"
Secondly, DADDY, bush signed the agreement with canada and mexico during HIS term and it went to the presidents desk when Clinton took office. CLinton facing an override in the republican controlled congress had no choice but to sign the bill with a few corrections.
Voting record on nafta..
congress
H.R. 3450 (103rd): North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (On Passage of the Bill) -- GovTrack.us
Senate
U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Votes > Roll Call Vote
The votes went down party lines for the most part. A republican bill stacked against the american worker.
NAFTA destroyed millions of good jobs in the USA. These jobs will NEVER return to the USA.
history:
NAFTA was signed by President George H.W. Bush, Mexican President Salinas, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1992. It was ratified by the legislatures of the three countries in 1993. The U.S. House of Representatives approved it by 234 to 200 on November 17, 1993. The U.S. Senate approved it by 60 to 38 on November 20, three days later. NAFTA was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on December 8, 1993 and entered force January 1, 1994. Although it was signed by President Bush, it was a priority of President Clinton's, and its passage is considered one of his first successes. (Source: History.com, NAFTA Signed into Law, December 8, 1993)
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Maybe if you understood what NAFTA was, who created it, why was it designed and who stood to benefit from it, then you would understand how Detroit and many other cities are failing today.
Everything takes time. Profits over people and the country. The slow death of american industry was "inked" away by DADDY BUSH.
Peace
TOS
