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Originally Posted by dynalow
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.
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Well we certainly could borrow a couple of hundred billion dollars and do that but once you've rebuilt Detroit what happens next?
Without some sort of underlying economic structure its going to be right back where it started in, oh I'd guess 8-10 years. What supports Detroit after the rebuilding is competed? Government welfare checks? Or maybe some Casinos?
Our leaders today seem to constantly address the symptom of the problems without ever addressing the root causes of the decay. From my perspective the root cause of the problem is the de-industrilization of America - and the loss of hundreds of thousands of high paying value added jobs that built and sustained the middle class in Detroit.