Progressive Success Story: Detroit

[CrusaderFrank]

Let Democrats run a city for a few generation and not only do you run out of water but now electricity too! Once a world class city, the Paris of the Americas, Democrats managed to run the city into Third World shit hole status

Well done, Dems.

Well done!

Detroit working to restore power after system failure

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Detroit? Where they used to make cars before they stated to make really shitty cars that no one wanted?

 

[rightwinger]

Detroit was used up and abandoned by Capitalists

 

[Roadrunner]

Detroit was used up and abandoned by Capitalists

Detroit was destroyed by Democrats and their union goons.

 

[RKMBrown]

Detroit? Where they used to make cars before they stated to make really shitty cars that no one wanted?

But the people wanted less horsepower, and cheap plastic interiors.

 

[Roadrunner]

Detroit was used up and abandoned by Capitalists

Capitalists bust up windows and steal shopping carts?

Do tell.

 

[Roadrunner]

Detroit? Where they used to make cars before they stated to make really shitty cars that no one wanted?

But the people wanted less horsepower, and cheap plastic interiors.

I am all for plastic interiors without dash boards and door handles that decapitate and amputate in fender benders.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

What killed Detroit Let 8217 s not forget the 8216 who. 8217 - The Washington Post

And

A Stationary Economy Not Liberal Politics Is What Killed Detroit - Forbes

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Detroit was used up and abandoned by Capitalists

Riiiiiiiiiiiight. And coincidentally Democrats and Unions ran it into Third World Status

 

[CrusaderFrank]

What killed Detroit Let 8217 s not forget the 8216 who. 8217 - The Washington Post

And

A Stationary Economy Not Liberal Politics Is What Killed Detroit - Forbes

 

[rightwinger]

Detroit was never a progressive city

It was blue collar, beer and a lunchpail America

It was the capitalists that used up what was once a great city. When they found a cheaper alternative they dumped it and blamed the workers

 

[RKMBrown]

Detroit was never a progressive city

It was blue collar, beer and a lunchpail America

It was the capitalists that used up what was once a great city. When they found a cheaper alternative they dumped it and blamed the workers

ROFL

 

[PaintMyHouse]

I'll post it, digs at liberals and all:

"So while logic and historical evidence make plain that American-style liberalism wreaks enormous economic and personal hardship, for so many conservatives to reduce Detroit’s decline to a function of those failed policy ideas is a gross oversimplification of what actually occurred. And it ensures that little will be learned from Detroit’s collapse.

The sad truth in today’s world is that irrespective of political party affiliation, there’s a peculiar worship of manufacturing and the backbreaking jobs it allegedly creates. That worship has perpetuated a commercial concept that would have long ago disappeared whatever the quality of local governance. If so, as in if Detroit and Michigan had evolved with the economic times on the way to a reduced emphasis on the Big Three and the low-value, easily exportable jobs they create, the city and the state would likely be thriving today."

A Stationary Economy Not Liberal Politics Is What Killed Detroit - Forbes

 

[Roadrunner]

Detroit was never a progressive city

It was blue collar, beer and a lunchpail America

It was the capitalists that used up what was once a great city. When they found a cheaper alternative they dumped it and blamed the workers

You lived in Detroit?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

LBJ's Model Cities was the Kiss of Death for Detroit

 

[Roadrunner]

LBJ's Model Cities was the Kiss of Death for Detroit

LBJ was the kiss of death for America as a working, taxpaying nation.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Detroit was never a progressive city

It was blue collar, beer and a lunchpail America

It was the capitalists that used up what was once a great city. When they found a cheaper alternative they dumped it and blamed the workers

You don't actually believe any of the crap you post, do you?

 

[rightwinger]

Detroit was never a progressive city

It was blue collar, beer and a lunchpail America

It was the capitalists that used up what was once a great city. When they found a cheaper alternative they dumped it and blamed the workers

You don't actually believe any of the crap you post, do you?

Detroit had strong unions in the 40s, 50s and 60s and still flourished
Somehow, sharing profits with your workers did not bring the city to its knees

In the 70s and beyond, Detroit built cheap cars that nobody wanted. Capitalists looked to turn quick profits by ignoring aging infrastructure and spitting out cookiecutter cars. They took the American consumer for granted and assumed they would always buy the cars they put out as long as they had flashy ornaments and pretty girls to sell them

Who paid the price for the blunders of the Capitalits? Not the Capitalists they had the government behind them as they sold out and abandoned Detroit and sold out to the highest bidders

The workers paid the price and the city collapsed

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Detroit was never a progressive city

It was blue collar, beer and a lunchpail America

It was the capitalists that used up what was once a great city. When they found a cheaper alternative they dumped it and blamed the workers

You don't actually believe any of the crap you post, do you?

Detroit had strong unions in the 40s, 50s and 60s and still flourished
Somehow, sharing profits with your workers did not bring the city to its knees

In the 70s and beyond, Detroit built cheap cars that nobody wanted. Capitalists looked to turn quick profits by ignoring aging infrastructure and spitting out cookiecutter cars. They took the American consumer for granted and assumed they would always buy the cars they put out as long as they had flashy ornaments and pretty girls to sell them

Who paid the price for the blunders of the Capitalits? Not the Capitalists they had the government behind them as they sold out and abandoned Detroit and sold out to the highest bidders

The workers paid the price and the city collapsed

Ever hear of Henry Ford?

He raised his workers wages substantially as his company starting making real profits, that's what made Detroit boom. Yeah, why do you think Detroit ever blossomed into a world class city and the pinnacle of American entrepreneurship in the first place? Unions? LOL

Then Progressives got a hold of it and destroyed it

 

[RKMBrown]

Detroit was never a progressive city

It was blue collar, beer and a lunchpail America

It was the capitalists that used up what was once a great city. When they found a cheaper alternative they dumped it and blamed the workers

You don't actually believe any of the crap you post, do you?

Detroit had strong unions in the 40s, 50s and 60s and still flourished
Somehow, sharing profits with your workers did not bring the city to its knees

In the 70s and beyond, Detroit built cheap cars that nobody wanted. Capitalists looked to turn quick profits by ignoring aging infrastructure and spitting out cookiecutter cars. They took the American consumer for granted and assumed they would always buy the cars they put out as long as they had flashy ornaments and pretty girls to sell them

Who paid the price for the blunders of the Capitalits? Not the Capitalists they had the government behind them as they sold out and abandoned Detroit and sold out to the highest bidders

The workers paid the price and the city collapsed

Detroit was not built in 1940. Detroit was built by capitalism, not socialism.

Unions & socialism were able to live off that which had been built. Over time the unions & socialism destroyed detroit. How? Easy unions & socialism could not compete with capitalists.