Detroit Getting Ready for Bankruptcy- Largest US City to Ever File

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  1. DonGlock26

    DonGlock26 New Member Past Donor

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    Republicans are about to take over and manage Detroit's bankruptcy. The Democrats in Detroit cannot deal with their own finance disaster.
    This is what Democrat rule can do to a great American city.
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    There have been different reports on this.Last week I saw an article stating
    that Detroit was in the process of being declared a Displaced city.
    The Governor { Rick Snyder } was on - Greta - last night explaing the state of
    Michigan.Basically talking about the Big Labor Protests at the Capital trying to
    intimidate as they did in Wisconsin.And that he wants to follow the Mitch Daniels
    Right to Work model in Indiana.
    Greta asked about Detroit where Unemployment is at 18.9%.
    Snyder said that Michigan has special laws in place to handle Big City like
    Detroit when they fall into insolvency.That Emergency Management kicks-in
    and the state can use 30 day Emergency measures and outside Managers to
    bring the city into solvency.
     
  3. waltky

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    Detroit files for bankruptcy...
    :icon_jawdrop:
    Once-mighty Motor City files for bankruptcy
    Jul 18,`13 -- Once the very symbol of American industrial might, Detroit became the biggest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy Thursday, its finances ravaged and its neighborhoods hollowed out by a long, slow decline in population and auto manufacturing.
     
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    Thehumankind Well-Known Member

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    Detroit is a great City.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_metropolitan_Detroit

    And the Move I think,
    will give the city a space to relieve itself from economic tensions
    and strain so that it could recover from the slump and invigorate
    again the economy.



    http://www.bankrate.com/finance/economics/city-files-bankruptcy-1.aspx
     
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    Osiris Faction Well-Known Member

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    That funny considering I live in Michigan...and it's been a republican run state for some time now.
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Obama, October 13, 2012
    Another favorite:
    Obama, March 11, 2006
    At least he is consistant
     
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    samiam5211 New Member Past Donor

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    Detroits population has steadily declined since 1950. Going from 1.8 million people to 750k is tough on a budget.
     
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    logical1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    This is what happens to a government run by democrats in bed with the unions. They cant blame Bush on this one.
     
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    samiam5211 New Member Past Donor

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    This is what happens when the business cycle causes a city to lose 60% of its population.
     
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    Since this is the only thread regarding the spectacular Detroit bankruptcy that hasn't been deleted yet (?), I guess we'd better make our posts quickly!

    Prior to this largest-ever American municipal bankruptcy, the worst one was in Stockton, California, and that one was microscopic compared with the Mt. Everest of debt that Detroit owes -- approximately $20,000,000,000. Yeah, TWENTY BILLION DOLLARS. Writing posts about debts and deficits in the United States in the 21st-Century has worn off the number on the "zero" key on the keyboard.

    What caused it? Well, in the case of Stockton, the story is there for all to read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/04/stockton-bankruptcy_n_1648634.html

    Great Keynesian "thinkers", like the Federal Reserve's Ben "Helicopter" Bernanke will tell you we need more and more spending, every day, all the time, and to hell with the "balance sheet". But what killed Stockton was, "The Result of 15 Year Spending Binge" -- and that's from the liberal Huff-puff propaganda organ, not Fox News or some "right wing nut-job" news source.

    Back to Detroit... if there has been the perfect example of hyperliberal, out-of-control, reckless spending in any American city, surely it has been in Detroit! Big labor unions, the growing Welfare State bloc, and corrupt, self-serving political criminals have been in the process of destroying Detroit for over thirty years, and they finally succeeded! Congratulations! THIS is what Socialism looks like, up close and personal! THIS is what Socialism does when it infects a healthy body built on free market values and enterprise. DETROIT is what the entire United States (with the possible exception of the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Texas) will look like because of hyperliberal Socialists like Barack Hussein Obama and the other fairyland morons who have utterly failed to demonstrate even the most rudimentary understanding of economics and the repercussions of economic policies....

    http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2...y-in-2011-guess-what-they-all-have-in-common/
     
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    Update on Detroit bankruptcy progress...
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    Detroit on 'razor's edge' weeks before bankruptcy
    October 24, 2013 — Short of cash, Detroit was delaying payments to vendors and "operating on a razor's edge" weeks before it filed for bankruptcy protection, the head of the city's turnaround team testified Thursday.
     
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    DonGlock26 New Member Past Donor

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    Diagnoses: Advanced Stage 4 Liberalism. Prognosis: Fatal

    Treatment: Republican Emergency Manager Hospice
     
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    I myself see little to no hope for the city of Detroit's finances. I am glad that we have Gov. Snyder as governor to at least try and handle this mess. Detroits problems are caused by many things from population loss, crooked politics, cronyism, loss of manufacturing, crime, and bloated retirement benefits. Fixing the crooked politics is the easy part, overcoming the rest is the impossible part.
     
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    That's funny you should attempt to claim that the LIB endemic city corruption run by LIB Black elected politicians for decades is somehow anything to do with the State run by REPs. But good try. The day you and yours will ever look reality in the face and except that literally every LIB Black run city in the country is corrupt is the day something might change. BTW, how many Black politicians who used to run LIB cities have been or are presently in jail? That's not counting about four hundred whose cases are working their way through the legal system.
     
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    I agree with you. Makes little difference who runs the city now. Politics is only a small part of Detroit's problems. But it seems like we want to put a Party label on every issue.
     
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    Pretty funny considering the two worst economic downturns in the last 100 years occurred under Republican rule.
     
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    Republicans were the original progressives, so it's not surprising.
     
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    Detroit is already a violent, filthy, putrid, poverty-ridden calcutta, and bankruptcy will make it official. Nevertheless, it is precisely what the affirmative action people of the city want. They will have a unique lifestyle and culture which mirrors South Africa. Detroit is now one of the world's happiest, most evil and care-free cities. The people of Detroit enjoy their white-free, anarchist culture and lifestyle.

    Detroiters will be white-free, but President Obama will keep them supplied with welfare cards, funded by working, tax-paying people.

    Detroit is but an example of what all of America will look like within 30 years.

    May the people of Detroit enjoy their self-determination.
     
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    Many of those are branches of the progressive leadership/policy tree. Progressives fail to deal decisively with crime, low school scores, and decay thus causing white and black middle class flight. Federal and state policy subsidizes illegitimacy via the welfare state spawning a limitless supply of youth that are uneducated due to a lack of civility taught at home and likely to get involved in crime due to a lack of adult supervision and parenting. The rest is a death spiral.

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    Brand "D" = epic fail.
     
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    If you can see the future you should be hitting all of the lottery jackpots.
     
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    It's called an autopsy. We need to identify the cause of death and it is "Death by Democrat Management". Obama's showing what it can do at the national level with the economic malaise, truly incredible debt incurred by propping up the welfare state, and the epic failure of his legacy program- Obamacare.
     

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