On Mar 26, 4:24 pm, "Peahen" <Peahen1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "ellen" <epdps...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > moving my detroit rants/musings/etc. here.. hope ya'll don't mind.
> > this clip shows glimpses of what it is like here, the vocalist speaks
> > to his reality. i can't verify current stats, but i'm sure i could
> > come up with worse. the comments to the video reflect any variety of
> > things. i am never sure what is most striking - the socio-economic
> > aspects - absolutely little/poorly understood (ie, disinvestment
> > happened well before the riots of the 60s, federal policies that
> > contributed to decentralization, etc), the political (republican, not
> > democratic policies), the racial. & much more - the vestiges of the
> > world's one time greatest concentration of industry. the evidence of
> > a destroyed social/civic compact, etc.
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> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nga2_XK3kmE
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> > they put false fronts up on the abandoned properties downtown during
> > the superbowl.....
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> Oh my, this is so sad and Detroit is only one city.....
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> Think of what $14B a month could do.
yep, though the problems here run way beyond the financial aspects (ie
- what do you do if large parts of the city are, in large part,
vacant?)....
i made the mistake of turning on pbs to divert my attention from the
local stuff & they were doing a piece on the 3 trillion dollar cost
estimate of the war. 3 trillion dollars.
gotta go sign up for the mayor's legal defense fund. those $750/hr
legal bills are killers.
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