03-10-2014, 08:48 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Northwest Indiana
Posts: 10,936
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Originally Posted by crazy4diesel
You take a city that's built to sustain a population of 1.2 million or so, all the roads, police, firehouses, and assorted infrastructure, that needs to be kept up and maintained, but you cut the population in half, and then half of the rest aren't working or are underworking, there you have the perfect storm. Next you add a mayor who is currently serving time for the fraud he commitment, siphon funds away, and reward your friends and relatives with lucrative contracts and jobs...and you have a double whammy. Finally, you have a city that really doesn't care much, and takes very little pride in city, when I first visited Detroit in 1990 I told friends they might was well hang a sign at the airport "Welcome to Detroit, We Don't Give a Damn". It was at every level, the service you received at hotels (I supposed the rats running the halls at the RenCen were a good thing?) even the airport itself at that time was just abysmal (long since corrected, and now a great airport, though the terminals are an inconsistently timed bus ride apart).
What's really sad is when you look at the skyline of Detroit from the Windsor side of the river, you really see a city that was beautiful, with great architecture.
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X2, and a one party system used to buying votes with other peoples money. The patronage system where you bring me a few votes and I give you a job in the real world that pays $15/hr minimal benefits but you will get $24/hr pension after 20/yr service Cadillac health plan, and so on hello Chicago. Whether it is local or national you do not hear many leaders saying that the problem is that we spend to much, but what you always hear is that we are not taking enough from them.
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