MaggieD
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Maggie,
I think one of the interesting points you brought up is the Casinos. They were a HORRIBLE idea from 10 years ago. They are based inside the city. They encourage people with little income or even better, EBT cards to go and gamble for the big win. They are just sucking the money out of the poor. The casinos were put there to attract tourists. Horrible. It was the nail in the coffin for the city.
I believe it. Tommy Boy and I enjoy watching the pawn shop reality shows. It is amazing how, in Detroit specifically, people pawn their TVs, jewelry, electronics, etc. to trip over to the casino. Between casinos and lotteries, we shoulder a whole lot more tax burden on the poor than we think.
I used to go to casinos quite regularly. (I can afford it, but always spent more than I was comfortable with.) On my way home, I always felt guilty. Not one good job by all that money spent. Not one refrigerator built. Not one anything built. Should've left 'em in Vegas.
Maybe we should give Detroit back to the Indians.
9) An astounding 47 percent of the residents of the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.
There is that 47% number again.
Maggie,
I think one of the interesting points you brought up is the Casinos. They were a HORRIBLE idea from 10 years ago. They are based inside the city. They encourage people with little income or even better, EBT cards to go and gamble for the big win. They are just sucking the money out of the poor. The casinos were put there to attract tourists. Horrible. It was the nail in the coffin for the city.
Actually, Detroit put in casinos because Windsor, across the river from Detroit, opened up a casino and built a couple more and a lot of the players in these casinos were residents of Detroit and its suburbs. Detroit had to decide if it wanted to continue to lose those dollars to Windsor or fight back.
I was always under the impression it was for tourists. That is how it was marketed to me. Either way, it is simply destroying the city.
The death of the automotive industry killed Detroit not the casinos.
Maggie,
I think one of the interesting points you brought up is the Casinos. They were a HORRIBLE idea from 10 years ago. They are based inside the city. They encourage people with little income or even better, EBT cards to go and gamble for the big win. They are just sucking the money out of the poor. The casinos were put there to attract tourists. Horrible. It was the nail in the coffin for the city.
I was always under the impression it was for tourists. That is how it was marketed to me. Either way, it is simply destroying the city.
I was always under the impression it was for tourists. That is how it was marketed to me. Either way, it is simply destroying the city.
Didn't Orange County California file for bankruptcy about 15 years ago? It hadn't had a Democratic supervisor since 1964.
Didn't Orange County California file for bankruptcy about 15 years ago? It hadn't had a Democratic supervisor since 1964.
The death of the automotive industry killed Detroit not the casinos.
Quite a bit of commentary from people that are pretty far removed from the situation.
Detroit is suffering for two reasons:
One corruption - for decades, the leadership has extracted as much as they could out of the city either by giving jobs to every last one of their relative down to 3rd cousins, skimming the top with various "funds", or by simple extortion, pay to play, etc. Keep your partisan dribble - corruption is corruption - it doesn't matter if its democrat or republican.
Two, and probably the biggest reason - Detroiters are too dumb to get out of their own damn way. Everytime somebody starts making sense, he's beaten back as an outsider trying to "take" something from Detroit. The irony is that the ones leading the charge are usually doing the most taking. Mayor's like Kilpatrick somehow get reelected to a second term while every halfway decent mayor runs as fast as he can after his first term is over. The state offers to lease bell isle - a place with huge potential that would have only gotten better with consistent control. But people are too afraid that something is being stolen from them. Basically the same conversation happens regularly around the water department. In the mean time, they'll elect any crook that talks jobs and D-Troit pride - A pedophile city council president, and illiterate dept. of education president, the list could probably go on for ever but this is a good example:
Investigators: Wayne County Confidential | Detroit, Michigan | WXYZ-TV. Then when the state finally has enough, they send in an emergency manager. Rather than lambast the elected officials that drove the city into the ground, they defend them with B.S. like "voter's rights" not realizing the rest of us in the state have just as much right to try to keep the next "son of Detroit" from pissing away our tax dollars on a 100k a year salary for the position he created for his sister for a fund that only has 400k.
The automotive losses are a big deal, but nothing that can't be recovered from in the long term (relative to other major cities anyway). Casinos are a minor issue - somebody covered the Windsor competition. As for the list of symptoms somehow being tied to a political party - just plain stupid. I suppose Catholicism leads directly to pedophilia too.
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