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Reynolds Farley, Professor emeritus of sociology and population studies at the University of Michigan, debunks the rightwing noise machine meme that Detroit went bankrupt because of unions and liberal mayors, showing that Michigan's homerule structure basically isolated Detroit and strangled it with various policies intended to punish minorities and the poor.
It's refreshing to hear an educated voice make fools of the rightwing propagandists and their meme.
Detroit's Uneasy Relations With Michigan | KUOW News and Information
Reynolds Farley, Professor emeritus of sociology and population studies at the University of Michigan, debunks the rightwing noise machine meme that Detroit went bankrupt because of unions and liberal mayors, showing that Michigan's homerule structure basically isolated Detroit and strangled it with various policies intended to punish minorities and the poor.
It's refreshing to hear an educated voice make fools of the rightwing propagandists and their meme.
Detroit's Uneasy Relations With Michigan | KUOW News and Information
Detroit is surrounded by about 136 municipal governments in the three county area, each of them with incentives to boost their own economy and very few incentives to cooperate on metropolitan-wide problems, such as economic development, environmental issues or transportation. That is a serious problem that a number of cities face.
But as the population of the city of Detroit, primarily the white population shifted to the suburbs, the suburban ring had the demographic clout to be very influential in state politics. And the city's clout disappeared at the same time and then Detroit became a very poor city as a more prosperous population left.
And at the current time, the exodus of middle-class blacks - from the city of Detroit to the suburban ring - very much resembles what happened to the white population in the '60s and '70s; an exodus of the more capable, more financially secure population to suburban areas where city services are viewed as more desirable.
If I could simply post this without any words, I would.
:roll:
Reynolds Farley, Professor emeritus of sociology and population studies at the University of Michigan, debunks the rightwing noise machine meme that Detroit went bankrupt because of unions and liberal mayors, showing that Michigan's homerule structure basically isolated Detroit and strangled it with various policies intended to punish minorities and the poor.
It's refreshing to hear an educated voice make fools of the rightwing propagandists and their meme.
Detroit's Uneasy Relations With Michigan | KUOW News and Information
His specifics were mistaken, perhaps, but his general point wasn't. The general point being there was a lot more going on in Detroit's downfall than simply saying "liberal policies" and "unions".what the professor said and what you came away with are very different.... but we all know your agenda, so none of us are surprised.
Why that affected only Detroit (since it is a statewide "problem") was not addressed very well. It seems like as the morons in charge let the city of Detriot crumble that the smart folks simply left - apparently not moving very far at all.
Reynolds Farley, Professor emeritus of sociology and population studies at the University of Michigan, debunks the rightwing noise machine meme that Detroit went bankrupt because of unions and liberal mayors, showing that Michigan's homerule structure basically isolated Detroit and strangled it with various policies intended to punish minorities and the poor.
It's refreshing to hear an educated voice make fools of the rightwing propagandists and their meme.
Detroit's Uneasy Relations With Michigan | KUOW News and Information
Reynolds Farley, Professor emeritus of sociology and population studies at the University of Michigan, debunks the rightwing noise machine meme that Detroit went bankrupt because of unions and liberal mayors, showing that Michigan's homerule structure basically isolated Detroit and strangled it with various policies intended to punish minorities and the poor.
It's refreshing to hear an educated voice make fools of the rightwing propagandists and their meme.
Detroit's Uneasy Relations With Michigan | KUOW News and Information
Detroit's Uneasy Relations With Michiga
By EDITOR
Originally published on Sat August 10, 2013 9:24 am
Reynolds Farley, Professor emeritus of sociology and population studies at the University of Michigan, debunks the rightwing noise machine meme that Detroit went bankrupt because of unions and liberal mayors, showing that Michigan's homerule structure basically isolated Detroit and strangled it with various policies intended to punish minorities and the poor.
It's refreshing to hear an educated voice make fools of the rightwing propagandists and their meme.
Detroit's Uneasy Relations With Michigan | KUOW News and Information
Maybe you should learn to read. Then you would nderstand that this guy is really saying that:
1. A law from 1911 is responsible for the problem, while Detroit continued to flourish for decades after that law came into effect.
2. He fels cities should not be responsible for their own government but should be centrally controlled by the state.
3. Blacks just can't be expected to run a city without sufficient Whites.
You find this "enlightened" and "progressive"?
Its comforting to see an expert pretty much saying the same things that I have been saying right here for the last two weeks in response to the right wing attack machine who tries to make Detroit the poster boy for all that is wrong with America.
Uh, no. That's not what the article said at all, and if that's what you took away from it, you really need to read it again.Maybe you should learn to read. Then you would nderstand that this guy is really saying that:
1. A law from 1911 is responsible for the problem, while Detroit continued to flourish for decades after that law came into effect.
2. He fels cities should not be responsible for their own government but should be centrally controlled by the state.
3. Blacks just can't be expected to run a city without sufficient Whites.
You find this "enlightened" and "progressive"?
Bwaahaahaa!
Detroit is what is wrong with America!
Reynolds Farley, Professor emeritus of sociology and population studies at the University of Michigan, debunks the rightwing noise machine meme that Detroit went bankrupt because of unions and liberal mayors, showing that Michigan's homerule structure basically isolated Detroit and strangled it with various policies intended to punish minorities and the poor.
It's refreshing to hear an educated voice make fools of the rightwing propagandists and their meme.
Detroit's Uneasy Relations With Michigan | KUOW News and Information
Its comforting to see an expert pretty much saying the same things that I have been saying right here for the last two weeks in response to the right wing attack machine who tries to make Detroit the poster boy for all that is wrong with America.
It's refreshing to hear an educated voice
So you found a liberal union member willing to agree with you - so now its gospel.
The fact is you are so blinded by your hateful leftist politics you wouldn't see what happened when presented to you. Detroit was a gleaming beacon of capitalism destroyed by socialist just like they intend to do for America.
One cannot help but notice you offer no evidence for your claims.
... people really need to stop trying to paint everything is hyper-partisan terms.
Failures of this magnitude can't be summed down to "liberal mayors and unions" or "conservative statewide misrule." Fact is, nobody involved was equal to fixing Detroit, and apparently nobody feels as though they are responsible for doing so.
To put a finer point on it: this is a process that involves hundreds of organizations, millions of people, with lots of private fortunes and careers at stake and huge administrative obstacles that involve liberal and conservative politicians and people and communities of all levels. Over the course of decades. It can't be summed down to one specific organization or political ethos.
Did Unions (which have left-wing associations) make it harder for businesses to do business? Yeah, but there isn't a lot they can do about that. You can make a cable in Brazil for pennies and sell it in the United States for a hundred dollars.
Some company is always willing to export manufacturing that cable, and more than willing to use the profits to grind their competitors back home into fiscal dust, so all companies have to "at least" force laborers to work for less than a living wage and reduced benefits in order not to export their jobs. People don't want to work jobs that are demanding and have little reward, so they fight back.
Detroit died of "complications of globalism."
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