Let's pay China off!
Arlo-Payne
For repayment for all the money we owe them we can give them Detroit.
Thats right Detroit.
They should love that deal. Car factories in the USA surrounded by slums.
Just think they will save money on shipping their new cars over hear and
employees they send over will be able to look over the slums and feel
proud to be from China instead of the shithole we call detroit at the same
time. Motown is clearly lesstown now. Hell half the pop. has left and
there is no coming back ever.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6926247.ece
da pickle
> Interesting article in Britain about Detroit.
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6926247.ece
What a tragic situation. It is really so? How about our Detroit folks ...
comments?
From The Times November 21, 2009
Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit - a city in despair
The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe,
lie one above the other on steel racks inside a giant freezer in Detroit's
central mortuary, like discarded shoes in the back of a wardrobe.
Some have lain here for years, but in recent months the number of unclaimed
bodies has reached a record high. For in this city that once symbolised the
American Dream many cannot even afford to bury their dead.
"I have not seen this many unclaimed bodies in 13 years on the job," said
Albert Samuels, chief investigator at the mortuary. "It started happening
when the economy went south last year. I have never seen this many people
struggling to give people their last resting place."
Unburied bodies piling up in the city mortuary - it reached 70 earlier this
year - is the latest and perhaps most appalling indignity to be heaped on
the people of Detroit. The motor city that once boasted the highest median
income and home ownership rate in the US is today in the midst of a long and
agonising death spiral.
After years of gross mismanagement by the city's leaders and the big three
car manufacturers of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, who continued to
make vehicles that Americans no longer wanted to buy, Detroit today has an
unemployment rate of 28 per cent, higher even than the worst years of the
Great Depression.
The murder rate is soaring. The school system is in receivership. The city
treasury is $300 million (�182m) short of the funds needed to provide the
most basic services such as rubbish collection. In its postwar heyday, when
Detroit helped the US to dominate the world's car market, it had 1.85
million people. Today, just over 900,000 remain. It was once America's
fourth-largest city. Today, it ranks eleventh, and will continue to fall.
Thousands of houses are abandoned, roofs ripped off, windows smashed. Block
after block of shopping districts lie boarded up. Former manufacturing
plants, such as the giant Fisher body plant that made Buicks and Cadillacs,
but which was abandoned in 1991, are rotting.
Even Detroit's NFL football team, the Lions, are one of the worst in the
country. Last season they lost all 16 games. This year they have lost eight,
and won just a single game.
Michigan's Central Station, designed by the same people who gave New York
its Grand Central Station, was abandoned 20 years ago. One photographer who
produced a series of images for Time magazine said that he often felt, as he
moved around parts of Detroit, as though he was in a post-apocalyptic
disaster.
Then in June, the $21,000 annual county budget to bury Detroit's unclaimed
bodies ran out. Until then, if a family confirmed that they could not afford
to lay a loved one to rest, Wayne County - in which Detroit sits - would,
for $700, bury the body in a rough pine casket at a nearby cemetery, under a
marker.
Darrell Vickers had to identify his aunt at the mortuary in September but he
could not afford to bury her as he was unemployed. When his grandmother
recently died, Mr Vickers's father paid for her cremation, but with a credit
card at 21 per cent interest. He said at the time it was "devastating" to
not be able to bury his aunt.
What has alarmed medical examiners at the mortuary is that most of the dead
died of natural causes. It is evidence, they believe, of people who could
not afford medical insurance and medicines and whose families can now not
afford to bury them.
Yet in recent weeks there have been signs of hope for Mr Samuels that he can
reduce the backlog of bodies. Local philanthropists have donated $8,000 to
help to bury the dead. In the past month, Mr Samuels has been able to bury
11 people. The number of unburied is now down to 55.
K9way
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John the Savage
> IT RANKS 11TH WITH 900,00 PEOPLE ?/
>
Um, well, yea, it does. (with 900,000 that is) Not sure what you are
spazzing about here.
Detroit is very large geographically, so this number is a bit
misleading, but it's true. You could fit Manhattan, San Fransisco, and
Boston all within the city limits. One of the strange things for me
about moving from near Detroit to Boston is that Boston actually has a
lower population in the city proper, despite being much denser and
livelier.
John the Savage
> "Dave23"
>
>> Interesting article in Britain about Detroit.
>>
>> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6926247.ece
>
> What a tragic situation. It is really so? How about our Detroit folks ...
> comments?
>
Well, sure it's so. This news has been floating around for awhile..
http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/detroit_facing_corpse_surplus
I was back home (near Detroit) recently for a wedding (which was IN
Detroit) and it is pretty striking how broken down the entire city is.
When you add on the incredible mismanagement by the city council to the
collapse of the auto industry it is no major surprise that such things
are happening. I don't think it will ever recover. It will take a lot
more than Detroit to pay off the Chinese..
K9way
i had recently seen a list of "metro areas' and checked it out and
realized that they were talking city 'proper" in this post
Just when you think that youve been gypped ..the bearded lady comes and
does a double back flip!!! John Hiatt in "Buffalo River Home"
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