Daily Archives: July 22, 2010

Detroit And Its Third World ‘Aura’

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Laura Berman, the uber-liberal Detroit News columnist who has a serious case of Palin Derangement Syndrome, is at it again. Today, she is touting the wonders of Detroit’s status as a ‘Third World’ city. She even goes as far as describing the city as having a Third World ‘Aura.’

According to one of Detroit’s ‘opinion leaders’ its a great thing that Detroit is now regarded by business leaders as a ‘Third World’ destination.

I wonder if Laura has actually been to a Third World country? Has she seen the crushing poverty in the border towns of Mexico or the former communist countries of Eastern Europe? I don’t see how someone can actually try and spin the economic devastation Detroit is experiencing as a good thing.

In Laura’s liberal world, businesses exist to push an urban revitalization agenda and not to make money. Furthermore, in her liberal fantasy land businesses outsource to places like China, India and Mexico due to the mystique of the location and not because of the high costs, over regulation and the fact that the United States has the highest corporate tax rates (40%) in the world.

When the State of Michigan starts crying poor in the coming years and has a X billion dollar budget shortfall and politicians want to reach further in our pockets, remember stories like this.

Conservatives Should Follow David Cameron’s Agenda

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Why is it the only ideas we import from England are goofy windmills and socialized medicine. Via The Daily Mail:

Contemplate the epic sweep of the Cameron/Clegg administration. They plan to slash the size and function of the British state by cutting our £150 billion annual deficit to zero within the space of just four years.

Equally ambitious, they mean to transform the welfare state by making it worthwhile once again financially for the unemployed to take up jobs - and end the scam which has enabled millions of fit men and women to claim disability benefit.

Meanwhile David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague are brutally reassessing Britain’s role in the world, creating a new network of alliances to replace our broken ‘special relationship’ with the U.S.

British schools are to be taken out of the control of the trades unions and local authorities.

The intellectually bankrupt national curriculum will be canned. (emphasis added)

David Cameron is working to execute sweeping reduction of the size and reach of government and emphasizing the individual rather than the collective.

Taken together, the changes envisaged by David Cameron and Nick Clegg, if put into effect, would make their tenure one of the most revolutionary in all British history.

For they are planning nothing less than the break-up of Gordon Brown’s client state, with individuals being encouraged to stand on their own feet. If successful, this means a dramatic change.

This vaunting ambition shows up the miserable failure of Tony Blair’s government - and far outreaches even Margaret Thatcher’s ambition in her first term of office. (emphasis added)

Conservatives running in 2010 and 2012 need to take note.