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Detroit Power Outages

Posted by Itheliving 9 years, 4 months ago to News
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Apparently John Galt was in town. When he left he took his motor with him
SOURCE URL: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2014/12/02/power-outage-blackout-downtown-detroit/19777075/

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  • Posted by RevJay4 9 years, 4 months ago
    Detroit, a bastion of liberal politics and management for how many years, has an infrastructure problem? Whodda thunk it? Won't be in the MSM for long.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 4 months ago
    Sad to see such a formerly grand city come to this. I lived in a suburb and have employers who currently serve in the city gov't.
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    • Posted by Itheliving 9 years, 4 months ago
      What are they trying to do about it
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      • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 4 months ago
        We're a continuous improvement consulting company. The boss's wife took a job reporting to the mayor to instill CI methods in the city departments. Personally, I don't think she has a chance in hell. The entitlement mentality is too strong in gov't and Detroit in particular.
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        • Posted by xthinker88 9 years, 4 months ago
          If you apply continuous improvement techniques to policies with irrational philosophical foundations - you just get more bad government.
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          • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 4 months ago
            Well, they aren't being applied to policy per se, more to day to day operations and processes. That said, I don't have much hope that it will do much good in any case. Institutionalized lethargy - that's gov't.
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  • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 4 months ago
    "100 customers"? "900 locations"?
    A good storm anywhere else in the country will kill the power for tens, if not hundreds of THOUSANDS of "customers," and this is a big deal in Detroit?

    Pussies. Hell, some decades ago, a large part of Cupertino, CA, was blacked out when one construction crew drilled through one of the main feeders for the city! Panic did NOT ensue. Looting did not happen.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 9 years, 4 months ago
    I propose Detroit's city government be disbanded, with all of its local laws. Then the reduced tax and regulation loads may make it worthwhile for some business to re-colonize the place. Sort of an enterprise zone like the ones in Costa Rica.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 9 years, 4 months ago
    Well... you let the unions and government tax-collectors chase out people that produce or "stand out" in performance in any way... now they are finding out what happens when work ethic isn't a big motivator in the workforce...
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