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Obama's America Will Become Detroit!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 39463506:MV8yMjMxNTU3XzM3ODQ4NTI1X0VDNzlGNUQy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 26723728:MV8yMjMxNTU3XzM3ODQ4NDI0XzlBQkNBRjcz] [quote:davvi:MV8yMjMxNTU3XzM3ODQ4MjMwXzgwNDcyNjk5] Our cities are not the cities of a prosperous well run country. We should be ashamed, but somehow we are told that it is the fault of those who pay the bills? Things are upside down. [/quote] and here we are. no one cares. [/quote] Oh, they'll [i]care[/i]...WHEN IT'S TOO LATE! :redface: [/quote]
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Obama's economic and moral vision has played out in that city. What he seeks has been achieved there.
There are 264,209 households in Detroit, and 91,204 of them — or
34.5 percent — get food stamps.
There were 12,103 babies born in Detroit in the 12 months prior to the Census Bureau survey, and 9,124 of them — or
75.4 percent — were born to unmarried women.
The Department of Education says that in the Detroit public schools — which have books —
only 7 percent of the eight graders are grade-level proficient in reading and only 4 percent are grade-level proficient in math
.
Of the 363,281 housing units in Detroit, 99,072 are vacant.
Read more...if you can stomach it!
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