I went there on business recently and took some of my brothers kids along. Its like a burned out, bleak zombie infested ghetto. When you ride on the downtown people mover, you get a birds-eye view of vacant bldgs with broken out windows with curtains flapping, bums gathered around warm-air vents, armed guards at every stop... packs of wild dogs running the streets... burned out street lights, pot holes.....My six year old niece started crying and asked to go home... its just the pits.
The city is so dysfunctional i don't know how the idiots in charge avoid being hung in grand circus park. Corrupt, incompetent buffoons... and yep, they are so liberal, so democrat, so good at spouting the same old socialist welfare state crap that the denizens of this slum-opolis keep electing them, so they are in on it too. its been like this for years.
the city is practically insolvent, yet the morons keep electing mayors like Kwame Kilpatrick who use the mayoral mansion as a personal party palace. Kwame hands out city g-jobs to every incompetent homey or distant relative to the point where nobody there knows how to do anything anymore. The city is broke, yet the citizens allow the city coffers to defend the mayor against criminal allegations to the tune of 9 million dollars - and counting!
Its shameful. Even more tragic because its a primarily black city that instead of being a source of pride for blacks just keeps on its downward spiral as they continue electing racist clowns to run the city. There is plenty about Detroit on the internet.... here is an example:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-24-detroit-mayor_N.htmThanks for listening. Remember, no matter how bad things get, it could always be worse - you could be a Detroiter.
