How would you save detroit?

[Rozman]

How about 100 bulldozers and some grass seed.

Part of the solution can be that we bulldoze some of the old unlivable homes. This would free up the lots for new homes and businesses.

Obama wants infrastructure construction jobs....
Start with Detroit.
Start building the city of the future....

 

[NYcarbineer]

lol, Obama should have the federal government buy up some big swaths of unused land in Detroit,

set up a military base, and move a big bunch of operations out of Texas to Detroit.

 

[blackhawk]

lol, Obama should have the federal government buy up some big swaths of unused land in Detroit,

set up a military base, and move a big bunch of operations out of Texas to Detroit.

More Government spending as the answer what a shock.

 

[Vox]

Drastic problems call for drastic action...Make Detroit a test tube for freedom.

Make the entire city a tax-free zone, insofar as sales and business taxes/fees are concerned.....Don't even enforce any state sales taxes.

No-permit concealed carry....Let the innocent would-be victims shoot back.

Bulldoze and declare eminent domain on any derelict structure more than 12 month in arrears on property taxes....Condemn any derelict/uninhabitable/out of code structures that are up to date.

Revoke any and all pensions/benefits of retired bureaucrats who don't live in the city.

No unionized city personnel....Ever.

Privatize all public housing.

Privatize all schools.

Disband the city police and fire departments...Devolve the responsibilities to the neighborhoods....It's not as though you can get the Detroit cops to show up anyways.

very good proposals.

 

[mudwhistle]

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[numan]

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I would suggest giving the state of Michigan back to Canada.

Then it would no longer be subject to American misgovernment, graft, corruption and irrationality. It would have a chance to recover.

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[Avatar4321]

Break up the city and allow each section to govern themselves.

 

[Mr. H.]

Re-route the Keystone XL straight to Detroit and build a half dozen large scale refineries.

 

[Samson]

Break up the city and allow each section to govern themselves.

You were the guy who invented Israel, right?

 

[squeeze berry]

Re-route the Keystone XL straight to Detroit and build a half dozen large scale refineries.

actually, that's a good idea

 

[Mr. H.]

Re-route the Keystone XL straight to Detroit and build a half dozen large scale refineries.

actually, that's a good idea

The only drawback is that it would involve that dirty four letter word W-O-R-K.
There's much more incentive today to stay at home, draw unemployment/disability/welfare.

 

[Duped]

Let it remain a trophy to liberalism.

 

[Rct_Tsoul]

I have a good plan to save Detroit and the entire United States, we can forcibly move them all to FEMA camps via rail cars, remove all contraband and delouse the hole lot of them with that powdery stuff.

 

[Publius1787]

How would you save Detroit?

1. Remove all able bodied people off of welfare. We could focus on job programs(some federal money if needed). Abled bodied doesn't mean throw granny or the disabled dude onto the street.
2. Lower regs and make it easy to start a business.
3. Tax the income
4. Use the tax money to increase the police force to get control of the violence.
5. Outside investment can get into this area once 5. is done. Bigger stores, projects, etc.
6. Increase more to fund education to get more the 30% of the population able to read, write and do jobs.


Detroit needs to do this from the inside out. Somehow, I have my doubts about the population there, but I'm really hoping.

I would grind my teeth and bail them out so that all of the scum stays put where it belongs. Detroit. Screw up my municipality? No thank you. Indeed, I would put shock collars on everyone who voted or commited a crime in that city so they couldn't leave. To make the money back I would charge admission for tourists to go on a safari through an all American liberal hell hole. We would need caged and bullet proof windows to make that possible though. If they gave us any trouble we could throw EBT cards at them with zero balances to give us time to escape. Quarterly I would also fill a truck up full of crack, drop it in the middle of the city, and put the battle that ensues on payperview. We could make back the loss of income in a few years.

 

[auditor0007]

How would you save Detroit?

1. Remove all able bodied people off of welfare. We could focus on job programs(some federal money if needed). Abled bodied doesn't mean throw granny or the disabled dude onto the street.
2. Lower regs and make it easy to start a business.
3. Tax the income
4. Use the tax money to increase the police force to get control of the violence.
5. Outside investment can get into this area once 5. is done. Bigger stores, projects, etc.
6. Increase more to fund education to get more the 30% of the population able to read, write and do jobs.


Detroit needs to do this from the inside out. Somehow, I have my doubts about the population there, but I'm really hoping.

Detroit's problems are so massive that these simple ideas won't even put a dent in the problem. You have a city that used to have over 2 million people. It now has around 800,000, if that. Half the city is abandoned. The problem is that abandonment is throughout the city. What has to be done is that they need to move people from low populated areas and get them into full functioning communities. Then they can raise those old communities where nobody lives and just give the land to developers. If developers don't have to pay for anything other than new construction, they can rebuild one section at a time, entire communities where they can attract people with money. They can even build public schools in these communities that do not have to be part of the Detroit public school system. Make those school districts independent.

Here is an example. In Denver, they took old Stapleton Airport and allowed developers to take the land and develop it with a plan. They included shopping along with housing. Most homes that were built in that area now go for $400,000 and up. The area was not a great area to begin with, but now it's a great area and it's generating tons of tax revenue for the city of Denver. Now Detroit's situation is much more complex, but things like this can be done, one community at a time. The key to bringing back Detroit is new developments and giving white's a reason to come back. This is not a racial issue, it's just a fact that big cities need whites and their higher incomes because with it the city collects more taxes.

 

[Annie]

How would you save Detroit?

1. Remove all able bodied people off of welfare. We could focus on job programs(some federal money if needed). Abled bodied doesn't mean throw granny or the disabled dude onto the street.
2. Lower regs and make it easy to start a business.
3. Tax the income
4. Use the tax money to increase the police force to get control of the violence.
5. Outside investment can get into this area once 5. is done. Bigger stores, projects, etc.
6. Increase more to fund education to get more the 30% of the population able to read, write and do jobs.


Detroit needs to do this from the inside out. Somehow, I have my doubts about the population there, but I'm really hoping.

Nice suggestions, but truly ignoring the systemic problems that caused the problems. The unions would have to take massive cuts. The pensioners too. Both, non-starters, voluntarily. Thus bankruptcy.

2nd tier problems, that can't be addressed by declaring bankruptcy: tax base. It's the poor left in Detroit, they really aren't a substantial source of revenue other than sales tax. They cost more than they pull in. That needs to be reversed.

Incentives. There's a bunch of 'middle class families' in the burbs of all races that have taken drastic financial hits in the past years. They'd love to find an alternative to where they are now. Detroit in a rehab mode might make welcome to those with the right values and tight wallets to find a place to settle.

This would likely be folks willing to homeschool or drastically help with their kids schooling, assuming they want their kids at least getting into state universities. It's doable however, especially if people are sold on the idea that 15 or 20 years from now there will be a Renaissance.

 

[Londoner]

How would you save Detroit?

1. Remove all able bodied people off of welfare. We could focus on job programs (some federal money if needed). Abled bodied doesn't mean throw granny or the disabled dude onto the street.

This is what FDR did. He used government to put able bodied people to work mostly building infrastructure (and his methods were adopted by Truman and Eisenhower).

Infrastructure like roads, bridges, dams and energy grids have a massive multiplier effect for everything from commerce to living standards.

Reagan's father and brother were put to work during the Great Depression by an FDR work program. Read Reagan's first biography "Where's the Rest of Me?" - he was an FDR Democrat and talks about how FDR saved his family.

The government work programs of FDR, Truman and Eisenhower help put several generations of Americans to work building a Great Nation. Every American they put to work was also, as a direct result of being put to work, a consumer. This meant that the capitalist had to hire even more workers in order to keep up with the increased consumer demand. It was a virtuous cycle and it lead to unprecedented economic growth in the 50s and 60s. It was the opposite of today's austerity. (Reagan and Clinton enjoyed smaller but respectable economic booms, but they were largely driven by the expansion of credit and the easy money policies of the Federal Reserve)

We can't fix the depression until we learn from history. The government must spur demand during depressions; then it must pull back after the engine has started again. The Great Depression was not fixed until the stimulus (and job creation) of the greatest government works program in history > WWII. The Americans that were put to work manufacturing war materials represented a tsunami of consumer demand that triggered the golden age of consumer capitalism. We have forgotten that lesson.

 

[francoHFW]

Well I wouldn't be the Pub governor and cut hundreds of millions in aid, appoint a Pub Wall St. bankruptcy lawyer to be emergency city manager, and then declare it bankrupt to make billions for my pals, without even negotiating with the unions. I'd cut their Cadillac health benifits and get them O-care, saving 50%. End of problem.

Put them to work fixing their infrastructure and give them some training. Like the rest of the country. Fecking a-hole Pubs and their silly hater dupes.

 

[Annie]

Well I wouldn't be the Pub governor and cut hundreds of millions in aid, appoint a Pub Wall St. bankruptcy lawyer to be emergency city manager, and then declare it bankrupt to make billions for my pals, without even negotiating with the unions. I'd cut their Cadillac health benifits and get them O-care, saving 50%. End of problem.

Put them to work fixing their infrastructure and give them some training. Like the rest of the country. Fecking a-hole Pubs and their silly hater dupes.

Can you ramp that up to slang American English? What you posted isn't intelligible.

 

[S.J.]

Save Detroit? Why? The liberals made their bed, let them lie in it. But fencing it off might keep the outlying areas a little safer.