If you want to see how really, really, really bad Detroit is, go to google maps satellite view and do the street view. Click almost any street in the city N,S,E or W and you can see abandoned houses or empty lots. The Packard plant still stands as a sad symbol of the decay, about sixty years after Packard went out of business.

Someone here suggested a while back that there ought to be a national contest of city planners to come up with ideas for rebuilding Detroit from the ground up. Not a bad idea. Put all Michigan's unemployed to work with dozers and shovels and level the city. Start with a clean slate. Wouldn't that be better than just sending checks to stay home and go down to the unemployment office once a month.

The future in Detroit must begin with massive demolition.