Steven Crowder hit the road again. This time he visited Detroit, MI. The writing is right there on the wall (at least the walls still standing) as to how what was once a great city became a city that, well, sucks. A city devoid of hope. It isn’t that they haven’t poured enough money into the schools. It isn’t that automakers failed to produce enough green cars. It’s because Detroit has been a liberal petri dish for decades – and here is the result. A city “brought to it’s knees” by unions and leftists. As Crowder points out, this is what America can look like in the near future if things don’t change.
Observations from a conservative in a blue state. With a little help from my friends!
It’s truly sad a once great city brought to its knees. If it were not for the outlying suburbs and taxpayer dollars via government programs and grants, the City of Detroit would be no longer. You drive past 7 mile road and it gets a bit post apocalyptic or like the History Channel show “Life After People”, many scenes of the like that Steven Crowder highlights and is quite accurate. The Detroit public schools have been under State control for years. Corruption, malfeasance, thuggery and theft have decimated the city and its coffers. Dave Bing is now Mayor. He’s a Democrat, an ex pro basketball player and seems like a decent fellow, totally unlike the “Kwamster”. There has been much hope placed in him, so everyone here hopes he sees successes and not scandals. The city of Dearborn has seen much change. With the automakers folding their tent and seeking greener pastures, tens of thousands have lost jobs and moved on; so you know the old saying how “nature abhors a vacuum”, so what has replaced the customs, traditions and values of the people that have gone? Islam.
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I hope it’s better where you live. I read about the new mayor. It sounded like he has good ideas. He certainly didn’t sound like a democrat. I wish him luck.
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I have many friends and family in the Detroit metro area. I worked there for a number of years as a young man. I now live in a VERY rural area, hours from Detroit but it’s not good anywhere in Michigan right now or for the foreseeable future. Eight years of Democrat control of the Governorship has driven business away, sometimes just over state lines to escape tax and regulatory oppression. Any new employers that come here are “bought” by the Governor through tax abatements and other financial goodies that she would never extend to small business. We have a huge budgetary deficit, state government spending is still expanding, and the left’s solution is even more government spending and higher taxes and more regulation on the generators of prosperity. It seems to be a common thread in our country right now.
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New York has similar problems. It’s just not as obvious. But the smaller cities have been hit really hard over the years. There are too many businesses to name that have left the state. And like in Michigan, they give the breaks to big business.
My husband is a contractor. He’s better at electric and plumbing than the licensed (union) electricians and plumbers. The city of Syracuse requires licensed electricians and plumbers. The same people who control the licensing process. It’s such a scam. They do shoddy work and charge twice as much. The last job they screwed up royally and my husband had to go in and clean up their mess. Not to mention that they held the job up by weeks. And, it’s not a licensed electrician doing the work. He’s just employed by the licensed electrician. So of course it cost the client thousands of extra dollars. It’s such a scam. And they wonder why people like us have moved out of the city in droves, and those that remain have crumbling homes.
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I hear you both. Undoubtedly conditions are painful, very painful. This video was disturbing, and they have it right. During the first half of the 20th century, J.L. Hudson had a department store that was 26 stories high and covered one whole block in downtown Detroit. Around 1970 it closed, undoubtedly because of the liberals making conditions so bad since the early 60′s.
I live in the most conservative county in my state. Maybe that’s why I think there is some hope. It is my understanding that nation-wide union membership is down to less than 15%. To me, this says that if Republicans/conservatives are able to win the House and/or Senate again, the bold union atmosphere will go underground again.
If each one of us who knows the right way to do things keeps on keeping on, if each one of us offers his/her support to the right people/organizations, if each one of us prays and stands up for what is right, if each one of us who knows right from wrong refuses to lose….or compromise, they can’t defeat us.
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