Sunday, November 10, 2013

RIDICULOUS LATIMES ARTICLE:  This is what passes as first page stuff at LATimes these days  This pathetic bit of reportage appeared on the first page of the Sunday Times today.  "Pathetic" because the reporter provided no context for the quotes assailing the dilemma city workers now confronting the city workers and largely black residents of this failed town.  It took forty plus years for the unions and blacks to destroy Detroit and make no mistake there is no way this city makes a comeback with its current demographics and dependency attitude.  In 1967 blacks rioted for days and touched off the migration of the white executive population to the suburbs taking with them their civic pride, their taxes and their competency.  What was left was the underclass who could find no employment other than for government.  Once they ran through the the shrinking tax revenues these people began to borrow and finesse the city's finances which, of course, also ran it course resulting in bankruptcy.  They are now blaming whitey and everyone but themselves.  What we have here is a perfect laboratory experiment in socialism, and as Margaret Thatcher once put it, " Socialists eventually fails when they run out of other people's money".