Detroit goes bust
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23369573

Mabe the comunist system would be better?

I always thought detroit was the home of the motor industry.

Don't really understand how a city can file for banckupsy either

Violent crimes per 100,000: 2,122.6
Population: 707,096
2012 murders: 386
Poverty rate: 40.9%
Percentage of adults with high school degree: 77.4%

Detroit’s murder rate of 54.2 per 100,000 residents was the second highest in the country last year. The homicide rate in Detroit, which included 386 criminal murders and an additional 25 justifiable homicides, reached the highest level in nearly 40 years. In addition, the city’s aggravated assault rate of 1,320.8 cases per 100,000 people was also the second highest in the United States, although this was an improvement from the 1,333.6 cases per 100,000 residents in 2011. Detroit has struggled economically in recent years. The city’s 2012 unemployment rate was a whopping 18.6%, much higher than the 8.1% across the nation last year. The median household income of $25,193 was less than half the national median for 2011.

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damn weekends :winkwink:

i thought Detroit declared earlier.. guess they were just talking about it

An other dvtimes news report...

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I think Canada should make us an offer for Detroit.

With an average median household of $25k, well, no wonder why they are hating life.

Naw, we'll just keep using it as Toronto's landfill site.

You wouldn't believe the convoy of garbage trucks that make the trek from Toronto to Michigan down Hwy 401 on a daily basis.

I don't think you could have enough maple whiskey to trick them into paying anything for it...:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

LMAO Can I get 8 mile rd please :1orglaugh

Detroit is 90%+ black.

Is anyone really surprised?

Detroit has a lot more problems than just auto unions.

That city seems to be the perfect storm of unions that had too much power, companies that gave those unions too much power, corrupt leadership and an all around badly designed, tough to live in city. Stir it all together and it creates a recipe for failure.

One thing's for sure - Detroit's become the mecca for abandoned urban exploration photography these days. I know a few buddies who regularly skip over the border to shoot abandonments.

Those who survive come back with some damn interesting pics. :1orglaugh

News this afternoon says that number has been updated to around $15k.

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enough social spending, turn that around.. it be a political disaster

I still have family there and they say it is getting worse. I was there in 2010 and the block I grew up on is a shit hole. I wouldn't even get out of the car. It's sad to see a city so once powerful reduced to nothing. Just driving around and seeing so many houses and buildings empty you would think your in the apocalypses.

Another Obama bailout gone south.

Rahm Emanuel? :helpme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

So you're saying that the bailouts were all Rahm's idea? About right, Obama has done nothing wrong. He could shit on a picture of Jesus himself and still come out clean because we all know God invented bowel movements.

If it worth even a penny, Chinese would already buy it :2 cents:

Some amazing pics here http://gigapica.geenstijl.nl/2013/07/detroit.html

Great pics

In 100 years or so they don't want many people living around that neck of the woods, move to the green areas ASAP

Racist comment much?

Time for OCP and RoboCops

....funny enough, they had redesigned their police, fire and EMS vehicules this year....with Detroit skyline....like they needed that lol

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Gfy's new even lower standard

It's not a lie if it's true

It's not bragging if it's true

It's not slander if it's true

It's not mean if it's true

So why is it racist if it's true?

You really out to read:

Escape From Detroit:The Collapse of America's Black Metropolis

The truth is sometimes tough to accept :2 cents:

I'm confused. Obama gave a speech promising not to allow Detroit to go bankrupt.

Bankruptcy isn't going to be tolerated, when such an action is deemed a slight against the nation's first black POTUS

Ingham County judge rules Detroit bankruptcy be withdrawn; Schuette appeals, Detroit News, 7-19-13

This judge actually is quoted as saying:

?It?s also not honoring the president, who took Detroit?s auto companies out of bankruptcy.?

Every attempt will be made to bail out the armpit of the midwest. :2 cents:

I just flushed a huge shit. Didja get it?

C'mon tards Detroit has been going down for 20 years now quit blaming it on a particular party. Seriously. Even the first Robocop movie depicted it as a shit hole.

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ADG

Detroit... What happens when Liberal Democrats get everything they want.

No. That happens when a financial crisis is knocking your door :2 cents:

She's a state court judge, and the bankruptcy was filed in federal court. She has no jurisdiction over it. She can order that state officials stop working on it, but that can be appealed (and has been).

Of course, you're a Russian kid from Moscow... why wouldn't you know exactly what you're talking about?

Because I follow the news. Please don't ask such stupid questions anymore.

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OCP is coming!

With all due respect, reading about it in a the news is a little different from living it.

You can't possibly blame this on Obama. He's not responsible for anything!

Dayumnnnnnnnn

By the way interesting layout:
red are whites, blue are africans:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Detroit_MI.png

The suburbs in Detroit are fine it's just the city of Detroit. The smart people moved out when house prices in the suburbs were at an all time low. People don't really go to the city of Detroit unless its downtown. Downtown is the only nice area that's safe and has stuff to do. The police keep it safe because there's businesses there and things to do. Detroit is beyond saving because the majority of it is full of lazy uneducated people who don't want to work and the city doesn't have the resources to send police if there's any trouble.

The blue dot to the north is Pontiac and the one south west is Inkster. Both are just as bad as Detroit for the most part. The spot above the north west corner of Detroit is Southfield. That area isn't bad but there's a funny article about black people bitching that people from the ghetto are moving there.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/41810267/n.../#.UewpHI03uSo