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.
Is this woman smokin’ crack? Lefites really do live in an alternate universe … from reality.
She has gone off the deep end trying to spin Detroit’s collapse as a positive sign. Also, I will bet GalaxE will not hire more than 150 people by the end of 2011.
Detroit was known as the Paris of the Midwest; it’s really pathetic to see the deliberate destruction of an American city.
It is sad and is a reminder of what is the end result of liberal economic policies.
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