Well, this is uplifting! - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

kip Foss · #1 12-27-2010, 08:10 PM

THE lifestyle YOU'VE been taking for granted has been DISSOLVING like a
SANDCASTLE at the water's edge, WASHING into the sea and it'll NEVER
return! READ and BELIEVE it NOW!

(Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer,
environmentalist, traveler)

By Frosty Wooldridge

For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan.
I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play,
drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs, and human depravity. I watched
entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings,
cars, trucks, buses, and school yards. Trash everywhere!

Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens
of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal
welfare, free housing, and food stamps!

With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in
one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free
Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.

A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I
saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's 'Great Society' flourish in Detroit. If you
give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for
doing nothing.

Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America, outside of
Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its knees... He set the
benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he
said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge".

You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67
percent African-Americans.

As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math
and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new
life in another city or state.

Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same
time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that
Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan,
but most work in Detroit. As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.

As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful
Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting
that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You
could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife!

Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike,
and total separation from America.

Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American
Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan, paid for by Saudi
Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last
June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign
countries than America. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50
percent illiteracy rate and growing.

Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the
city. In Time Magazine's October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of Detroit: How a
great city fell, and how it can rise again," I choked on the writer's
description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane,
and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said
Daniel Okrent. "If drought, and carelessness had spread brush fires
across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night."

Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the
city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of
the country might take notice.

But Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th, and slipping rapidly,
has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that
seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.

Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature
industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people
of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful
decision making."

As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of
federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kick backs, and
illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death
from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out
of every sector of decaying Detroit.

"By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit 's
treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest
municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which six years ago
was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of
$200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in
receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain
unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, unemployment
in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit, the unemployment rate is
28.9%.

That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent." At the end
of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he
said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great
city's collapse, it's also about the erosion of the industries that helped
build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal
much about the character of America in the 21st century. If what was once
the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to
its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can't find
a way to get up, what does that say about our future?"

As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book, "$20 Per Gallon",
the auto industry won't come back. Immigration will keep pouring more,
and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into
Detroit, thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America . If
50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists
spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit . Illiteracy plus Islam
equals walking human bombs.

You have already seen it in Madrid , Spain; London, England and Paris,
France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers
grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates
republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates
women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor
killings by upset husbands, fathers, and brothers that demand subjugation
by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women
to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying.
Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture,
country, and way of life.

I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON'T STAND UP, AND
SCREAM AT WASHINGTON , AND OUR STATE, CITY, AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT
AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA . IF YOU FOLLOW THE NEWS AT ALL YOU KNOW THIS
HAS HAPPENED IN ENGLAND , AND FRANCE AND SPAIN .

IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT
FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND
FIGHT.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin

Kuan · #2 12-27-2010, 08:13 PM

Nope. This is uplifting.

kip Foss · #3 12-27-2010, 08:18 PM

I can't argue that at all.

The Clk Man · #4 12-27-2010, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Kuan

Nope. This is uplifting.

This was uplifting for myself.

chilcutt · #5 12-27-2010, 08:25 PM

I will bet that 'ole' Frosty jumps with glee as he re-watches the tapes of 'Desert Storm'.
For the record, I grew up in Detroit, and while much of what he says is true...It kinda sounds like he is blameing Muslims for the death of Detroit- which is not the case.

#6 12-27-2010, 08:27 PM

That's what happens when a city thinks the industrial age is still alive and well 30 years after its demise. Other american cities (e.g., Pittsburg) figured this out in the 70s and took steps to survive and do well in the 21st century.

chilcutt · #7 12-27-2010, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig

That's what happens when a city thinks the industrial age is still alive and well 30 years after its demise. Other american cities (e.g., Pittsburg) figured this out in the 70s and took steps to survive and do well in the 21st century.

Didnt take me long to figure it out...I split.

#8 12-27-2010, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by chilcutt

Didnt take me long to figure it out...I split.

By bailing out the auto industry, the feds will drag it out even longer.

pj67coll · #9 12-28-2010, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig

By bailing out the auto industry, the feds will drag it out even longer.

Yep. What was it Gump said? "Stupid is as stupid does..."

- Peter.

raymr · #10 12-28-2010, 02:22 PM

Last I heard large swaths of Detroit are being bulldozed flat. Nothing wrong with getting rid of something that doesn't work anymore.

strelnik · #11 12-28-2010, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by raymr

Last I heard large swaths of Detroit are being bulldozed flat. Nothing wrong with getting rid of something that doesn't work anymore.

The problem is...some people take that too literally, and bulldoze the houses with the unemployed still in them.

This has caused the market share of the Cartoon Network to drop by 29% in the area.

raymr · #12 12-28-2010, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by strelnik

The problem is...some people take that too literally, and bulldoze the houses with the unemployed still in them.

This has caused the market share of the Cartoon Network to drop by 29% in the area.

Took me a sec but thats kinda funny in a sick way.

elchivito · #13 12-28-2010, 05:24 PM

Gee, you don't suppose old Frosty's got an opinion one way or the other do you? He sounds like a fear mongering bigot to me. Here's a few more of his carefully weighed opinions:

FROSTY WOOLDRIDGE
AGE: 58
LOUISVILLE, COLO.

The author of hundreds of opinion columns, Frosty Wooldridge believes he knows a thing or two about immigration. It's not a pretty picture he paints.

Cock-fighting, animal sacrifice, Santeria sorcery, staged dog fights -- these are some of the nasty things illegal aliens bring us, Woolridge writes in his 2004 book Immigration's Unarmed Invasion: Deadly Consequences. There's genital mutilation -- clitorectomies -- that come to us courtesy of illegal non-European immigrants ("What if your daughter married a man who insisted your granddaughter undergo this operation?"). If you go to places like Wal-Mart or the movies, he warns, "you're breathing air that may be carrying hepatitis." Tuberculosis, head lice and hepatitis are showing up in our classrooms -- part of what Wooldridge calls immigrants' "disease jihad." Thanks to donations from illegals, blood supplies may be contaminated with a deadly parasite that will destroy your heart.

Not worried yet about the ways of "barbaric" immigrants? Consider the toilet habits of the undocumented. Somali immigrants, Wooldridge warns, "never used a toilet or washed their hands before being plunked down in America." Mexicans "do not wash their hands after using bathroom facilities." Then Wooldridge suggests in his book that readers think about just who it is who prepares their food.

An Army veteran, Wooldridge claims to have written articles for 18 magazines, along with "hundreds" of editorials in major American newspapers. He says he bicycled 100,000 miles through six continents over the course of 25 years. He has taught math and science and has been a tractor-trailer driver, bartender, dance teacher, ski instructor, heavy equipment trainer, cardiac catheterization technician, personal trainer and lifestyle coach. He has appeared on scores of television and radio shows. But what he does not have is any background in immigration.

That hasn't prevented him from offering up his opinions. "I don't want to see my country taken over ... and have them make the Southwest a slime pit Third World country like Mexico," he told a Las Vegas audience in early 2005. Later, in a letter to the editor, he complained about California, "with its nightmare gridlock, schools trashed, hospitals collapsing, drug gangs and overall chaos generated by a Third World mob of illegal aliens." U.S. borders should have been sealed to illegal and legal immigration the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, Woolridge added on one Web site. If that doesn't happen soon, he said, "this country will collapse into internal civil conflict in this decade."

Nope, nuthin' paranoid about old Frosty.

dynalow · #14 12-28-2010, 06:46 PM

.........you need to call in the 82nd Airborne Division!
Vietnam wasn't the only war front in 1967.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2_VX2nymRs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6mpbxpVGag

Progressive leadership: Al engthy multipart story, but interesting in hindsight:

"Detroit is unsurpassed for opportunity and growth"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WybEb13jysk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xna-HbYhnFQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xClHmV3VdxM&feature=related

and more..........

G-Benz · #15 12-29-2010, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by elchivito

...That hasn't prevented him from offering up his opinions. "I don't want to see my country taken over...

Wonder if the early native Americans thought the same about the "White immigrants" who brought Christianity and smallpox?