Detroit

[N0SYA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw

[WA8UEG]

How bad is it in Detroit? Well, I travel there a few times a year on business and a few weeks ago I had a compact car rented for $29.95 and unlimited mileage. They upgraded me to a Jag explaining they needed to have the luxury cars run every few weeks. It seems you can't drive a mile without seeing several for sale, rent or lease signs for both business and residential properties.

[K0RGR]

The thing that gets me is? Some arsonist is at work in Detroit, starting fires all over and they're getting rid of 164 Firemen.?

I watch too much TV, but in real life, some of the biggest arsonists have turned out to be firemen or ex-firemen. There was an arson investigator in California some time ago, who was setting fires to give him something to do.

[KD7PAB]

Maybe if we nuke the city then start all over again from scratch; it would be a cost-effective urban renewal project. And, there'll be plenty of melted glass and steel left over to recycle into new windows and structures, respectively.

See! Nuking is environmentally friendly...at least after the first few thousand years when the radiation has died down.

Now,now, there's no reason to waste a valuable nuke on Detroit. Nature is doing a good job taking back the land.

[KI4NGN]

Now,now, there's no reason to waste a valuable nuke on Detroit. Nature is doing a good job taking back the land.

Yea, but the nukes are deteriorating, so better to use them than let them fall apart and become dangerous to have around.

[N7WR]

There is actually a very good and factual explanation for why Detroit has become what it is---but to discuss it would not please the moderators so I won't.

[K5FH]

Maybe if we nuke the city

Would anyone notice?

There is actually a very good and factual explanation for why Detroit has become what it is---but to discuss it would not please the moderators so I won't.

Know what you mean. Ain't Political Correctness wonderful?

[WA6MHZ]

So we oughta have a POLL: WHAT are the ABSOLUTELY WORST cities in the US.
Nominees are:
1) Detroit
2) Gary, IN
3) East ST Louis, IL
4) Camden, NJ
5) Compton, CA (or South Central LA)
6) Oakland, CA

[KO6WB]

Politics can be interesting to watch especially when they didn't get their way in the election process.
Falseback: Phoenix, AZ the 60's and 70's. Constant elections that wanted to put freeways all over the city. Every single election that want that passed, failed every single time and it wasn't even close on any of them. The people flatly did not want freeways. Now it's the 80"s and the elections continued and failed just like before. Then the same freeway purposal was slated for the ballot in an upcoming election. At about 6 weeks before the election the city of Phoenix decided it was time to do some road constrution in all of the busiest intersections all over the city. They were everywhere and traffic snarled and sputtered and it was bedlam. I was watching this unfold and noticed the trend and wasn't surprised that nobody including the local press seemed to get what was actually happening. Of course the local press had it's own agenda and that seemed pretty much in line with the political desires to have a freeway city. So this was remarkably overlooked by the public at large. The election came up and the promise of free flowing freeways was a carrot on the stick the people went for. For the first time in decades the freeway purposals passed. Amazing what can happen when everybody gets together and shoves it down your throat.
The city of Phoenix is now one of the most air polluted citys in the US now.
Moral of the story; bad ideas never seem to go away. they just come back until they aren't a bad idea anymore.
It was amusing to watch that happen with completely predicatable results. Kind of like watching two trains on the same track coming toward each other at full speed. You can watch it happen but there's nothing you can do about it.
Everybody have a good one
73
Gary

[K9ASE]

Where do their salaries come from?

Not trying to argue, but local governments are cutting back all over the country because they can't afford current levels of service, and they dare not raise taxes on people ready to revolt over taxation.

The problem I have is that I believe many municipalities sometimes cut in one area versus another in order to scare people. Get rid of some fireman instead of getting rid of some office workers? Get rid of some policemen instead of some bureaucracy? I don't believe this is always the case, but I think it happens.

In many cases public employee wage and benefit packages need to be addressed as these are having an adverse effect on city budgets. Some cities have begun this and it is helping. Other cities have not done this, but may need to consider it. One such city is Stockton CA. They will be voting tonight whether or not to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy. Twenty percent of other cities in CA. may face the same decision before the year is over.