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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 67276631  United States01/23/2015 11:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A exception must be made in the case of Detroit. The feds have the funding and manpower to go into Detroit and end the endless crime and non-stop decline. The city needs a make over. Yes Detroit has been mismanaged but the reality is that it was a factory-based city and now all the factories are overseas in places like China, India and South Korea. Detroit, Flint and cities like them need to be retooled for the future. It's going to take a proactive president and congress to fix Detroit. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67276631 The state of michigan does not have the resources to retool Detroit and Flint. It took something big to destroy those cities, like sending all the factories overseas! And it's going to take something big, like the feds taking over with a innovative plan, to turn everything around. Only the feds can do this. Right now Detroit and Flint serve no purpose. That must change. |
SilverKwest (OP) User ID: 67146187 United States01/23/2015 11:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Crap. I thought someone was going to get shot. I'm glad that no one did. I hate senseless violence! Threads: Thread: SCOTUS allows ban on U.S. flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo Thread: Petition Opposing Loretta Lynch for Attorney General [PLEASE SIGN] Thread: Johnson & Johnson Pleads Guilty to Selling Contaminated Infant's Medicines Thread: The 'Terrible 10' Thread: Dearman (UK) -- Who Did It? Thread: History and the Politics of Education **The Intentional Dumbing Down of America Exposed** Thread: The Billionaires Boys Club's Hands in Our Schools -- REAL Doom! Thread: Is THIS what's wrong with Detroit? Thread: Mass Die-Offs: Past & Present “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis ---------------------------- A starving artist with uncorrected astigmatism and presbyopia, plus 5% (green) color blindness, trying to make a living off of making graphics using a computer not up to the task -- what could go wrong? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 67295107 United States01/23/2015 11:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A exception must be made in the case of Detroit. The feds have the funding and manpower to go into Detroit and end the endless crime and non-stop decline. The city needs a make over. Yes Detroit has been mismanaged but the reality is that it was a factory-based city and now all the factories are overseas in places like China, India and South Korea. Detroit, Flint and cities like them need to be retooled for the future. It's going to take a proactive president and congress to fix Detroit. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67276631 So, you're in favor of abolishing States rights and its Constitution for a federal invasion by those who sold us all out decades ago? The only thing that needs retooled is, the removal of you communists and your nazi 2.0 police state. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 45876733 United States01/23/2015 11:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A exception must be made in the case of Detroit. The feds have the funding and manpower to go into Detroit and end the endless crime and non-stop decline. The city needs a make over. Yes Detroit has been mismanaged but the reality is that it was a factory-based city and now all the factories are overseas in places like China, India and South Korea. Detroit, Flint and cities like them need to be retooled for the future. It's going to take a proactive president and congress to fix Detroit. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67276631 So, you're in favor of abolishing States rights and its Constitution for a federal invasion by those who sold us all out decades ago? The only thing that needs retooled is, the removal of you communists and your nazi 2.0 police state.  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 51567730 United States01/23/2015 11:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No, poverty is the Father of crime! No jobs then men do messed up shit! Communist Government who embraces crime not Liberty! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45876733 I was so deep in poverty that I went from 180# to 90# in less than a year, and I didn't steal one crumb of bread, though I had the opportunity. It's not poverty causing it, AC. your answer is one sided. no opportunities = poverty = CRIME. try being homeless in an area that is no different than being in a 3rd world country. For six years I lived with no income, no heat, no air, and no electricity, gas, or running water (I got my water from a creek), out in the middle of a wilderness where the closest person was 4 miles away, and two of those years, after losing all that I owned in a fire, I was living in an old, leaking tent camper. Does that meet your requirements?  no that doesnt "meet my requirements" you have all you need out in the wilderness. You have access to water, food..and can make shelter. what the fuck else you want? oh i forgot, how dare you live without a way to charge your smartphone. |
| Carimbo Hanky User ID: 67293432  Puerto Rico01/23/2015 11:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | why? because you dont go out to rob or kill someone thinking that if you get caught you would receive the death penalty, if you go out thinking this you just wont do it! you go out full of adrenaline and other drugs, to rob or kill and you got 2 things in mind, the plan of what youre going to do and the escape route you would take. thats it. let me say this again, i support the death penalty but it doesnt prevent crimes, never have, never will! ...if injustice, is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. -Henry David Thoreau |
| Carimbo Hanky User ID: 67293432 Puerto Rico01/23/2015 11:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Crap. I thought someone was going to get shot. I'm glad that no one did. I hate senseless violence! OMG, thats some scary shit right there. thank god the dude hesitated/panicked and didnt pull the trigger ...if injustice, is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. -Henry David Thoreau |
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| SilverKwest (OP) User ID: 67146187 United States01/23/2015 11:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: SilverKwest I was so deep in poverty that I went from 180# to 90# in less than a year, and I didn't steal one crumb of bread, though I had the opportunity. It's not poverty causing it, AC. your answer is one sided. no opportunities = poverty = CRIME. try being homeless in an area that is no different than being in a 3rd world country. For six years I lived with no income, no heat, no air, and no electricity, gas, or running water (I got my water from a creek), out in the middle of a wilderness where the closest person was 4 miles away, and two of those years, after losing all that I owned in a fire, I was living in an old, leaking tent camper. Does that meet your requirements? no that doesnt "meet my requirements" you have all you need out in the wilderness. You have access to water, food..and can make shelter. what the fuck else you want? oh i forgot, how dare you live without a way to charge your smartphone. You are mistaken. What I lived through was like the third world that you speak of. They have what I had, and being as I was a lone female 46-52 during my unwanted, but highly valuable, survival training period, it was very hard, especially after my BMI hit 14. PS: I didn't have a smart phone then, and I don't have one now. Threads: Thread: SCOTUS allows ban on U.S. flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo Thread: Petition Opposing Loretta Lynch for Attorney General [PLEASE SIGN] Thread: Johnson & Johnson Pleads Guilty to Selling Contaminated Infant's Medicines Thread: The 'Terrible 10' Thread: Dearman (UK) -- Who Did It? Thread: History and the Politics of Education **The Intentional Dumbing Down of America Exposed** Thread: The Billionaires Boys Club's Hands in Our Schools -- REAL Doom! Thread: Is THIS what's wrong with Detroit? Thread: Mass Die-Offs: Past & Present “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis ---------------------------- A starving artist with uncorrected astigmatism and presbyopia, plus 5% (green) color blindness, trying to make a living off of making graphics using a computer not up to the task -- what could go wrong? |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 61868562 United States01/23/2015 12:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you look at the poorest counties in the country and their demographics, you'll find the poorest counties that are mostly white often have low crime rates and especially low violent crime rates. This blows the whole socioeconomic bs all to hell. I don't know why people believe all races are the same. We all know that isn't the case with animals. If you want a feisty energetic dog you might get a terrier. If you want a calmer breed you might choose a labrador retriever. If you're looking for a good guard dog a german shepherd would be a good choice. The difference in their traits are genetic. I don't know why people don't think this applies to humans. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 65900573 United States01/23/2015 12:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Im from the D White people are moving farther away each year even myself, Because the other color has taken over. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 65900573 Meanwhile crime waves are moving further North everyday! Car jack yesterday in Farmington Hills! there is crime everywhere. its not only the poor detroiters who are suffering. Farm hills, west bloomfield..etc Yes indeed, But after i moved into a white neighborhood all Loud Music Stoped. No more looking over my sholder 24/7, Restaurants get my food on Time. People actually talk normal, And i dont smell any weed. All i ever wanted was to be left in peace. Now i am...Finally! |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 54745123 United States01/23/2015 01:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | it's very simple, ANY city with over 80% black population is just pure shit. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63214768 if I'm wrong, please point out an example. your a real idiot. a city with an 80% black population is shit not because of blacks. Its shit because of the overall greed of WHITE americans. blacks dont turn the city to shit...the city is already shit and blacks have no choice but to live in them. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 9313 United States01/23/2015 01:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Is the reason Detroit is so dangerous, ranking as the third most dangerous city in the US ( [link to www.neighborhoodscout.com] because Michigan has no death penalty, therefore murderers have no fear? Quoting: SilverKwest Case in point: Just look at these scumbag murderers ( [link to www.mlive.com] Look at their attitude in the pictures. Read how, in court, they apologized to the families of Mike Brown, et al, but not to their victims' families! All they got for their heinous acts (I'm not going over them here, but they are evil to the core) was LIFE or LESS? If they don't deserve death, no one does, in my opinion. Do you agree? Take the time to vote in the poll above, and let's see what GLPers think about this! The state should not have the power to murder citizens. How many innocent people has Texas killed? Death penalty does not deter crime. We should have a death penalty for cops that kill Americans. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 9313 United States01/23/2015 01:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | corporate America and greed and other car companies outsourcing to other countries. Detroit was once one of the most prosperous cities of America people buying foreign cars killed the economy - much like the rest of America horrible Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34318496 yeah, because Americans value price and quality over patriotism. If those same car companies had held up to the standards of their competitors, they could be as great today. The thing that made American car companies great was no competition. We eliminated their major competition in WW2, and it took several decades to catch up, but once it did, it beat the fat ol' American companies to shit in a decade. Don't cry because you can't make a better car. Make a better car. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 9313 United States01/23/2015 01:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you look at the poorest counties in the country and their demographics, you'll find the poorest counties that are mostly white often have low crime rates and especially low violent crime rates. This blows the whole socioeconomic bs all to hell. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 61868562 I don't know why people believe all races are the same. We all know that isn't the case with animals. If you want a feisty energetic dog you might get a terrier. If you want a calmer breed you might choose a labrador retriever. If you're looking for a good guard dog a german shepherd would be a good choice. The difference in their traits are genetic. I don't know why people don't think this applies to humans. those poor white communities have the highest meth rates, the highest teen pregnancies, and the lowest literacy rates, too. |
| SilverKwest (OP) User ID: 67146187 United States01/23/2015 01:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Is the reason Detroit is so dangerous, ranking as the third most dangerous city in the US ( [link to www.neighborhoodscout.com] because Michigan has no death penalty, therefore murderers have no fear? Quoting: SilverKwest Case in point: Just look at these scumbag murderers ( [link to www.mlive.com] Look at their attitude in the pictures. Read how, in court, they apologized to the families of Mike Brown, et al, but not to their victims' families! All they got for their heinous acts (I'm not going over them here, but they are evil to the core) was LIFE or LESS? If they don't deserve death, no one does, in my opinion. Do you agree? Take the time to vote in the poll above, and let's see what GLPers think about this! The state should not have the power to murder citizens. How many innocent people has Texas killed? Death penalty does not deter crime. We should have a death penalty for cops that kill Americans. Um, you just contradicted yourself. It's called cognitive dissonance, and it can cause mucho problems in one's life, and head. The problems it causes are solved, though, once one sees the contradictions *and* corrects them in one's beliefs/thoughts. Threads: Thread: SCOTUS allows ban on U.S. flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo Thread: Petition Opposing Loretta Lynch for Attorney General [PLEASE SIGN] Thread: Johnson & Johnson Pleads Guilty to Selling Contaminated Infant's Medicines Thread: The 'Terrible 10' Thread: Dearman (UK) -- Who Did It? Thread: History and the Politics of Education **The Intentional Dumbing Down of America Exposed** Thread: The Billionaires Boys Club's Hands in Our Schools -- REAL Doom! Thread: Is THIS what's wrong with Detroit? Thread: Mass Die-Offs: Past & Present “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis ---------------------------- A starving artist with uncorrected astigmatism and presbyopia, plus 5% (green) color blindness, trying to make a living off of making graphics using a computer not up to the task -- what could go wrong? |
| SilverKwest (OP) User ID: 67146187 United States01/23/2015 01:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you look at the poorest counties in the country and their demographics, you'll find the poorest counties that are mostly white often have low crime rates and especially low violent crime rates. This blows the whole socioeconomic bs all to hell. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 61868562 I don't know why people believe all races are the same. We all know that isn't the case with animals. If you want a feisty energetic dog you might get a terrier. If you want a calmer breed you might choose a labrador retriever. If you're looking for a good guard dog a german shepherd would be a good choice. The difference in their traits are genetic. I don't know why people don't think this applies to humans. Poor rural blacks don't act like town/city blacks, and town blacks aren't as bad as city blacks. I think the difference is caused by differing levels of discipline, especially, but not entirely, a lack of fatherly discipline. Threads: Thread: SCOTUS allows ban on U.S. flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo Thread: Petition Opposing Loretta Lynch for Attorney General [PLEASE SIGN] Thread: Johnson & Johnson Pleads Guilty to Selling Contaminated Infant's Medicines Thread: The 'Terrible 10' Thread: Dearman (UK) -- Who Did It? Thread: History and the Politics of Education **The Intentional Dumbing Down of America Exposed** Thread: The Billionaires Boys Club's Hands in Our Schools -- REAL Doom! Thread: Is THIS what's wrong with Detroit? Thread: Mass Die-Offs: Past & Present “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis ---------------------------- A starving artist with uncorrected astigmatism and presbyopia, plus 5% (green) color blindness, trying to make a living off of making graphics using a computer not up to the task -- what could go wrong? |
| SilverKwest (OP) User ID: 67146187 United States01/23/2015 01:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Im from the D White people are moving farther away each year even myself, Because the other color has taken over. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 65900573 Meanwhile crime waves are moving further North everyday! Car jack yesterday in Farmington Hills! there is crime everywhere. its not only the poor detroiters who are suffering. Farm hills, west bloomfield..etc Yes indeed, But after i moved into a white neighborhood all Loud Music Stoped. No more looking over my sholder 24/7, Restaurants get my food on Time. People actually talk normal, And i dont smell any weed. All i ever wanted was to be left in peace. Now i am...Finally! Threads: Thread: SCOTUS allows ban on U.S. flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo Thread: Petition Opposing Loretta Lynch for Attorney General [PLEASE SIGN] Thread: Johnson & Johnson Pleads Guilty to Selling Contaminated Infant's Medicines Thread: The 'Terrible 10' Thread: Dearman (UK) -- Who Did It? Thread: History and the Politics of Education **The Intentional Dumbing Down of America Exposed** Thread: The Billionaires Boys Club's Hands in Our Schools -- REAL Doom! Thread: Is THIS what's wrong with Detroit? Thread: Mass Die-Offs: Past & Present “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis ---------------------------- A starving artist with uncorrected astigmatism and presbyopia, plus 5% (green) color blindness, trying to make a living off of making graphics using a computer not up to the task -- what could go wrong? |
| Yuga Sage User ID: 9564293 United States01/23/2015 01:51 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Forget the red or the blue pill. Take the Gold Elixir. “How can there be a God, when there is nothing but God.” - Laozi “Naturalness is called the Way. The Way has no name or form; it is just essence, just the primal spirit.” - The Secret of the Golden Flower. |
| Yuga Sage User ID: 9564293 United States01/23/2015 02:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The D-town ones are different then all the rest across the country. Trust me, I've worked downtown with them. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Forget the red or the blue pill. Take the Gold Elixir. “How can there be a God, when there is nothing but God.” - Laozi “Naturalness is called the Way. The Way has no name or form; it is just essence, just the primal spirit.” - The Secret of the Golden Flower. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 67105399 United States01/23/2015 02:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Other than the obvious problems, Detroit still suffers from extreme inability to use cash given them in an appropriate manner that will actually benefit the city. As an example, Detroit refurbished some distressed properties to the tune of over 200K each and then sold some of them for less that 90K. None of the houses sold recouped any of their "investment". This type of inability to do simple math on the part of their "leaders" will continue on towards ruination despite any attempts to thwart it. +5 for this thread. |
| Epic Beard Guy User ID: 26240425 United States01/23/2015 02:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No, poverty is the Father of crime! No jobs then men do messed up shit! Communist Government who embraces crime not Liberty! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45876733  Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe |
