Mike Duggan, the first White mayor on Detroit in the 21st Century has his work cut out.
The story of the beating of a white man by a black mob as told by this and similar accounts misses the context or is afraid to tell you.
A big part of why Detroit died was insurance extortion. This event was a textbook example. You spot a white motorist driving at a slow speed and send your child to “flop” in front of the car (or slam on your brakes for no reason)
Should the insurance company be stupid enough to go to court to try to prove that the person deliberately ran in front of the car or the injuries are not real, the welfare jury, seeing the white defendant and “rich” insurance companies would hand over multi million dollar settlements. Add in bank robberies, corrupt city officials and rampant shoplifting and you were pretty stupid to have a business south of Eight Mile.
Why the mob turned on the guy and tried to kill him isn’t obvious. Looking at the picture of his family, he isn’t exactly a TEA party guy.
Does it seem like the “jungle”? There is only the thinnest veneer of civilization separating us from the chaos.
Now in San Francisco, there is trouble brewing. For reasons that I don’t totally appreciate, many Google employees seem to want to live in the city of San Francisco rather than their work location called in Silicon Valley. This is having the effect of driving up housing prices within the city of San Francisco.
This has been creating confrontation with the people in the city – Google started running its own bus service to help protect its employees, and now the city is trying everything they can do to stop Google from using the city bus stops as a place to pick up Google employees.
When you layer on top of that the NSA revelations and the suspicion of complicity by the high-tech firms, and now the prop eight issue with Mozikka – there is potential for real conflict on the horizon.
It is fascinating that Democrat run cities like Detroit and San Francisco like to drive out people that earn a good living and attract the low-skilled and illegals. They even dummy down the schools to keep the resident’s children from getting a decent education.
If, or when, the Collaspe of the purchasing power of the FRN occurs it would be wise to be as far away, as practical, from Democrat controlled areas.
I don’t know if there will be more government control or less. I personally believe we are at a tipping point – either the government will continue to grow as it did in the last 100 years and become as big as it was in the Soviet Union and National Socialist Germany, or it will retreat to quickly to what it was about 60 years ago. I don’t think the current level of control is a stability point.
and which way things go is likely based on the technology available today. To “undo” the growth of government (and quasi government) snooping would require “unlearning” cell phones, the Internet, Cloud storage, computers – in other words a total collapse of civilization. I think what we have is here to stay. It’s just a matter of how long until someone decides to abuse the technology
The snooping is here to stay. The abuse of the snooping is the issue. It is public knowledge whether you are registered to vote, which party you are a member of, and how often you actually vote. Same for your campaign contributions.
The abuse such as the IRS scandal is here now. Future abuses from access to your detailed medical records are just beginning- They occurred in the McGovern-Eagleton days but will affect almost everyone soon.
As great as Bob Dylan was for poetry and story-telling for the 1960s and beyond, let’s not forget one of the best from the 1970s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJjesa-_9-8
This chart shows that Detroit is a model Democrat city:
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2014/05/20140509_income.png
I note that Charlotte is even “better” than Detroit. The reason is the rich people in Charlotte live in Tega Cay, a gated community across the state line in South Carolina or on Lake Norman. But even so, I don’t think there are a lot of super rich people living here. There isn’t even an opera house. Cambridge, Massachusetts on the other hand…
Back maybe 20 years ago, Detroit was on the list of the most livable cities in the world – one of the reasons was the average commute speed was 65 mph because almost nobody is on the freeways driving to work… And no rich people
I’m thinking the “best cities” list was based on being “green”. Another reason it scored well was that there was negative population growth and very inexpensive housing.
Yeah, when I give anyone instructions on how to get to Charlotte, from up here is in SWVA:
Take a left on I77 south @ Wytheville Virginia, and just drive south till you smell money : )
parrott
LOL. Smell money. Reminded me of this old one showing a famous uninsured that Obamacare is here to cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yFFyW4Ad8k
Trulia has named Detroit one of the top 10 most affordable American cities for the middle class
http://www.trulia.com/tips/2014/05/top-10-affordable-housing-markets-for-americas-middle-class/
The bad news is that a year ago, 87% of the active listings were affordable, in a year it has dropped to 81% ! They say the time to buy is when everyone thinks you’re crazy to buy!