In My Native City Of Detroit, Atlas Has At Long Last Shrugged - Forbes
"I’m sad. Detroit is my native city. It’s decline from being arguably the world’s richest city to being America’s “first Third Word city” is tragic, politically criminal, and a warning to other Americans."
Laissez-faire is an economical term, but has application in social, and political, arenas. The more we try to 'mold' the world to our perceived perfection, the more we fail.
I submit that most of us here, are on the right of history....
"So he declared war on what he called the hostile suburbs of Detroit. There were calls after the riots for gun control. He said no way, we're not having any. I want my people fully armed in this city. So he nixed any gun control on the grounds that it would be dangerous to disarm his people in the face of this white KKK lurking beyond Eight Mile Road. So this ended up discouraging any type of investment in the city, and that investment which did happen had to go through his office. Any investment, growth, whatever, in the city did not happen unless it first went through his office. He turned the police force into his militia. And what he did was set out to create a black city state south of Eight Mile Road. And he called what he was doing the rebellion.
He called the former white administrations occupying powers. The black population of Detroit's eating this up, folks. Gotta understand, they loved it. They absolutely loved Coleman Young. This was a guy who was at war with the former white leadership of Detroit that had fled the city after the riots and went to the suburbs and he is calling them the KKK lurking beyond Eight Mile occupying powers. He even erected a statue in honor of Joe Louis, with a giant black fist right at the freeway entrance to downtown Detroit.
Anyway, this went on for 20 years. There were 20 years of municipal black nationalism and ideological separatism. And by the time he left, the city was in a shambles."
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/0......
Thanks for doing the research for me....
But does anyone know if Michigan is a Right to Work state?
“Sally, Detroit is not really an example of the failure of GOP economic policy. It’s been run by the Democrats for 60 years, and you can cite all the studies about how bad austerity is, all you have to do is look at Detroit and you get an idea of how bad the absence of austerity is, it’s a city in ruin,” Krauthammer said.
“I think that the reason that the administration is hesitant to even talk about a bailout is that it understands that Detroit is a precedent,” he continued. “The minute you step into a bailout in Detroit, you’re going to get every city in the country lining up with a tin cup. And that’s why even this administration, even this administration is going to hold back from doing this.”
Watch hm here: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/...
San Bernardino went bankrupt last year and their liability to only police and firemen (retired and active) is 75% of the city’s budget. On a brighter note, I asked a college intern today if she read Atlas Shrugged, she said no but someone else had recently asked her the same question.
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