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In reply to the discussion: all I can tell you about Detroit is those complaining have never worked there [View all]La Lioness Priyanka
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all I can tell you about Detroit is those complaining have never worked there [View all]
backwoodsbob
Mar 2013
OP
Part of the problem is that today you can only vote for the corrupt machine politicos.
aristocles
Mar 2013
#3
If the property wasn't owned free & clear, the BANK owns it after a foreclosure. And BANKS, BIG
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#80
Multinational banks are the biggest non-payers of taxes in Detroit. The same banks who made
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#94
the finance sector didn't lose. and the banks got bailed out. see how that works?
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#104
What does that have to do with the decision to walk away from the properties?
badtoworse
Mar 2013
#105
the entire *point* of stealing other people's property is to make it available cheap for your peeps.
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#106
hell, why not appoint an emergency manager to run the whole country, since emergency managers
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#117
Um, yes, yes you can. There is a Supreme Court case going on about it right now.
IdaBriggs
Mar 2013
#47
you don't seem to know much about detroit for someone who supposedly lives there.
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#86
you made the claim they can't *give* property away in detroit. it's false. no, you don't live in
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#88
BTW, your personal attacks really suck. Let people discuss this matter without subjecting
Romulox
Mar 2013
#64
Because taking away the right of citizens to vote at all is exactly analogous to citizens *voting*
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#84
the average citizen of detroit is in the minority? or the majority of detroiters are criminals who
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#91
I didn't call you a fascist, Ida. And nothing you have said has anything to do with the point
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#97
Detroit's schools have been under some form of state control almost continuously since 1999.
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#74
Thanks for your posts, bob. The majority posting here doesn't give a fuck about Detroit.
Romulox
Mar 2013
#61
That's going to happen. Either with EFM or in Bankruptcy Court. Detroit is unsustainable.
Romulox
Mar 2013
#75
Wow...Promoting Fascism on DU. I am amazed something I thought I'd would not see.
Katashi_itto
Mar 2013
#95
I know what I am about to say will be ignored, but Detroit's problems are not from corruption ...
kwassa
Mar 2013
#110