On 7/27/13 5:27 PM, iBoaterer wrote:
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On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:13:28 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:22:24 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:07:04 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:33:39 -0400, John H
wrote:

Here's some of Detroit's Finest at work. This is, supposedly, an actual bank robbery.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...pe=2&t heater

I guess about 50 years of Democratic rule has even affected the police department.

http://www.ijreview.com/2012/07/1030...estroy-cities/

John (Gun Nut) H.

You MUST be a Republican, thus easily fooled and easily led!
Obviously, you can't tell a commercial from the real thing.

In case you don't get it, the video is a TV commercial for the 2008
Chevrolet Malibu.

In this case the reality is worse than the fiction. You only need to
look at the level of corruption and mismanagement Detroit has had over
the last 50 years to understand why they are in so much trouble.

I'm sure that it had nothing to do with the economy that the Bush
years drove into the ****ter.

And you're correct. It has to do with the corrupt leadership that's plagued Detroit.

John (Gun Nut) H.

Oh, so if the economy had done great under Bush, this wouldn't have
happened??




Despite what racist moron Herring says, the actual decline of Detroit
has almost nothing to do with local partisan politics and almost
everything to do with the decline of the American auto industry, which
began about 1968 and continued for decades with auto company management
ignoring the fact that the world for cars was changing, that higher
quality and much more fuel efficient vehicles were needed. The industry
bled tens of thousands of jobs for decades, and that crippled Detroit's
economic base. I know it is fashionable to try to pin the rap on the
auto workers and their benefits, but, hey, the auto industry here was
competing with overseas manufacturers in countries where there were and
are robust national health care and retirement programs, and overseas
manufacturers who were jumping into new markets with cars suitable for
those markets. Most foreign manufacturers are not directly burdened with
health care and retirement programs.

We are a very backwards country in many regards, and in reality no more
"free" than many other countries.