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On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:15:12 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

We could have helped out the city of Detroit, but we blew those
trillions on Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and
he will eat for the rest of his life.

How do you propose fixing Detroit's issues for the long term? They
could blow through a trillion or two in no time at all. The auto
industry is not coming back any time soon and that is what built
Detroit in the first place. I know people in upstate NY who are
still waiting for the paper and carpet making industies to come back,
and they started leaving over 60 years ago.

Necessity is the mother of invention. In my opinion, they need to get
off of their asses, quit thinking in the union/government will take care
of me mode, and DO SOMETHING. One thing that will help tremendously is
if people will start buying American again. I really liked the series
ABC Evening News was doing on buying American. I am surprised that so
far, WalMart hasn't seen the value in stocking items made in America and
advertising such. As far as the car industry, I think that the U.S. is
lagging behind partially because of nitwit non-thinkers not embracing
new technologies. Just like when tractors started appearing on the farm
landscape, a lot of farmers were just totally against that, saying their
horses worked fine. They soon got left in the dust.