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Aerial Video Footage Of Detroit: “Today, from the air, parts of Detroit look like a war zone”
Former local TV reporter Chris Hansen, hosted a Dateline special on the devastation that the city of Detroit has suffered. Via Gawker.tv:
Chris Hansen traveled to Detroit, Michigan for a Dateline special that aired tonight on the state of what is probably America’s most desolate city. And in aerial footage—devastation porn at its best—Detroit’s grim plight was revealed. Video inside.
“Today, from the air, parts of Detroit look like a war zone,” Hansen said in a voiceover near the beginning of the special, before he listed some of the most shocking facts about the city’s current state—the population is less than half of what it was decades ago; there are 400 liquor stores there, but only eight supermarkets—all while panning shots of the consequences of its deterioration flashed on the screen.
However, they really don’t mention that most of Detroit’s problems are a direct result of a continuous 50 year regimen of liberal Democrat policies. Even worse is the fact that Detroit’s current leadership is really not interested in changing direction.
While you watch this video remember what Lyndon B. Johnson said about in his Great Society speech (at the University of Michigan) in 1964:
Many of you will live to see the day, perhaps 50 years from now, when there will be 400 million Americans — four-fifths of them in urban areas. In the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes, highways, and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled. So in the next 40 years we must re-build the entire urban United States.
Aristotle said: “Men come together in cities in order to live, but they remain together in order to live the good life.” It is harder and harder to live the good life in American cities today.
The catalog of ills is long: there is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the suburbs. There is not enough housing for our people or transportation for our traffic. Open land is vanishing and old landmarks are violated.
Worst of all expansion is eroding the precious and time honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature. The loss of these values breeds loneliness and boredom and indifference.
As someone who has lived most of my life in this area, I would be thrilled to see Detroit turn the corner. However, to do so, is going to require a complete move away from the Progressive era thinking that has crippled Detroit and embrace a conservative, free market approach to solving problems facing the city.
Otherwise, by applying the same Liberal Democrat policies Detroit has endured over the last 50 years, Detroit will get the same results.
News Roundup: The Golden State, Russia’s Power Play, More Regulations In California And The Modest Oil Rush
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More evidence that socialism only works until you run out of other peoples money.
George Will writes about how liberalism and socialist ideas are dragging California to the verge of collapse.
This is something that we understand in Michigan as well. One thing that we, as a nation, need to wrap our heads around is the fact that we need to be a nation that makes things. We need to build cars, refrigerators, washing machines. We also need to be a nation willing to use our natural resources (in sensible ways).
On the other hand, Russia is using their resources as well. They are using them as a hammer. Via Reuters:
Russian oil continues to flow to Belarus and via Belarus to the European Union despite a failure by Moscow and Minsk to clinch a new oil supply deal at talks on Saturday, a Russian Energy Ministry spokeswoman said on Sunday.
“Belarus is holding back the negotiation process. Russia has made unprecedented and very comfortable proposals about duty-free oil supplies…But Belarus is demanding more,” spokeswoman Irina Yesipova told Reuters.
She said she didn’t know if talks would resume on Sunday or next week.
On Saturday, Belarus’ delegation left Moscow, and Minsk accused Russia of ignoring its arguments in a development that will revive fears of supply cuts to Europe, which have already pushed oil prices up.
Russia is working to regain it’s dominance on the world stage and they are more than willing to use oil to do this. They are also working to provide China with large amounts of oil as well.
Russia is also working on gaining power in military affairs as well:
While Russia is using its natural resources for economic growth and power, in the United States, government is using its power against the use of natural resources for economic growth.
New environmental laws being enacted in California are hindering the drilling for oil their state. Via Bakersfield.com:
What worries him most is how much money he (and eventually, the 34-year-old daughter he’s still training) might have to spend to comply with a new law intended to contain and prevent oil spills.
“What they’re going to ask us to do is going to be very difficult financially for a lot of guys. I mean, draining your tanks, electronically surveying them. That’s downtime. That’s a lot of expense. I don’t know,” said McAdams, who owns about 70 oil wells in the state, many of them just north of Bakersfield.
“This I can see could put some people out of business.”
That sentiment is spreading fast among local oil producers, especially the small independents with the least amount of money to spend on facility upgrades.
I thought Liberals were always looking out for the small businessman.
As a side note, if you think “who cares, there is no more oil in the United States, what’s the big deal”:
Giant Oil Discovery In Gulf Of Mexico
A Modest Oil Rush in California