How can the U.S. fix Detroit?

[commandrix]

At this point, I'd have to say evacuate all the remaining citizens, scatter them around the country, send in robots to do the dirty and dangerous work of bringing all the infrastructure up to par and keeping out anyone who wants to go in and make trouble, create DetroitCoin to pay off the debt (LOL, right?), wait ten years until everybody kinda forgets what was so wrong with Detroit in the first place, and then sell off all the properties to the highest bidder and let Detroit start over.

[Wilikon]

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-detroit-project-documentary-film


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvjWoBjmaII

[exoton]

We all know Detroit is the butt of all city jokes in the U.S. The place is in utter disrepair, the city is huge compared to the taxes it receives--so naturally bad things started to happen. Business and economic growth don't exactly thrive in a place declared by the FBI as the murder capital of the U.S. So in your opinion, what can fix Detroit? Other than Robocop of course.

Stop voting for the democrats.

Cuz everyone knows we're a few republicans away from Utopia? 

I don't know about that. I know the democrats and the unions had a free ride for their ultimate Utopia for the past 50 years. It was called Detroit. We can all see the result. It is basic History 101.

I think trying to pin the failure of Detroit singularly on the Democrats is a case of over-simplification. There were far more factors that lead to the downfall of Detroit than the party in power, or the role of unions. (Two groups I am not fans of, btw... I'm not defending them.)

No democrats are pretty much the only thing to blame for detroits woes. Almost every other democrat run city/state is in horrible condition, however ones with a somewhat moderate balance of power (meaning that Republicans have enough representation in the legislature to avoid the dems cramming everything they want past them, sometimes have a GOP Governor/Mayer) are not as bad off. IL is another example of a heavily democratic state that is doing horribly (although not as bad as detroit as Unions have not been able to infiltrate IL as much)   

[BADecker]

At this point, I'd have to say evacuate all the remaining citizens, scatter them around the country, send in robots to do the dirty and dangerous work of bringing all the infrastructure up to par and keeping out anyone who wants to go in and make trouble, create DetroitCoin to pay off the debt (LOL, right?), wait ten years until everybody kinda forgets what was so wrong with Detroit in the first place, and then sell off all the properties to the highest bidder and let Detroit start over.

Good idea. But, it would be easier simply to move to an area about 10 or 20 miles away, and start over. Leave Detroit kinda like a Michigan "Chernobyl" so that we all remember the kind of meltdown that happens when Democrats get too much control.

[cryptocoiner]

Fix Detroit? Does it really needs to be fixed?

[jaysabi]

We all know Detroit is the butt of all city jokes in the U.S. The place is in utter disrepair, the city is huge compared to the taxes it receives--so naturally bad things started to happen. Business and economic growth don't exactly thrive in a place declared by the FBI as the murder capital of the U.S. So in your opinion, what can fix Detroit? Other than Robocop of course.

Stop voting for the democrats.

Cuz everyone knows we're a few republicans away from Utopia?  

I don't know about that. I know the democrats and the unions had a free ride for their ultimate Utopia for the past 50 years. It was called Detroit. We can all see the result. It is basic History 101.

I think trying to pin the failure of Detroit singularly on the Democrats is a case of over-simplification. There were far more factors that lead to the downfall of Detroit than the party in power, or the role of unions. (Two groups I am not fans of, btw... I'm not defending them.)

No democrats are pretty much the only thing to blame for detroits woes. Almost every other democrat run city/state is in horrible condition, however ones with a somewhat moderate balance of power (meaning that Republicans have enough representation in the legislature to avoid the dems cramming everything they want past them, sometimes have a GOP Governor/Mayer) are not as bad off. IL is another example of a heavily democratic state that is doing horribly (although not as bad as detroit as Unions have not been able to infiltrate IL as much)  

Clearly, correlation = causation. Disregard all the other factors, we've cracked the code!  With almost a handful of data points, I don't know how someone hasn't awarded you a Nobel prize for economics yet.

[freedomno1]

Detroit project


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvjWoBjmaII

Didn't think you could extend the deadline
Well looks like its still doomed though