Capital of Scrap: Dying Detroit looting itself

[Lions_fan]

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US car manufacturers received bailout money and are now reporting profits, but the financial recovery of America's car makers is not filtering down to the streets of the country's once-booming automotive capital. Detroit increasingly looks like a ghost town with its residents literally surviving on scraps, while once it was a city that symbolized America's innovation and manufacturing might.

[izquierdista]

1. The same end

RT really didn't have to go far from home to find derelict buildings and people just getting by; there are plenty in the FSU. Seems the winners in the war between capitalism and communism have been the elite oligarchs in both systems, while the losers are everyone else.

[PonyJon]

6. Vote a STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC BALLOT - give Obama a real majority to work with

I think what is best for Detroit is that the Government stop making "fleet" purchases for bureaucrats and balance the budget. Yeah that's the problem, we gotta live within our means, that's common sense. Balanced Budget Amendment that's the way to go! Austerity that's what will fix Detroit. Stop those unions, that's why we don't have jobs. Those corporations should not pay any taxes, then they could afford to hire US workers. For all these reasons I guess I'll vote independent, that will show that Obama.

[Pooka Fey]

11. You posted the same thing on a different thread today. What gives?

DU is not designed for advertising campaigns. It's a discussion board.

[fasttense]

2. I finally get it.

When President Obama and RepubliCONS say jobs are being created or will be created, they are leaving out three words - in other countries.

Now listen to this and see if it doesn't make more sense:

"Our auto makers are in the mist of their strongest period of job growth in other countries in more than a decade. Since GM and Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy, the industry has created more than 75,000 new jobs in other countries. For the first time in 6 years, Ford, GM and Chrysler are operating at a profit in other countries."

Now I understand the change he was talking about.

[notadmblnd]

5. just like when they talk about "people"

they're not talking about us, they're talking about the rich.

[Botany]

3. I was just in Detroit

The Detroit Opera House was beautiful, I met a guy who still has a good job because he is
UAW (he has all the overtime he wants), downtown was jumping, but I took a wrong turn and
the big old Victorian Homes that were empty and or torn down was heartbreaking.


The big three are now making money we need some of that money to go back into the people
of Detroit as jobs ...... but the one sad fact is if you have a good job you will not want to live
in Detroit.

[formercia]

4. The Scrap Metal will probably wind up in Wally World

after it makes a detour to China and is converted into cheap crap.

[Festivito]

7. Not just Detroit, it's the whole country. Detroit's slide started decades ago.

Pennsylvania: Kids inherit family business. They send the workers home and sell the machines, to China or for scrap -- doesn't matter to them.

Our fear of Communism set US to give tax breaks giving incentive to set up plants all over the country, rather than have our industrialization taken out with a single cluster of nukes.

Now we move plants all over the world and give the same tax breaks. A move to stop that is not only stopped, the press won't even cover it.

It's been going on for decades, and it's not just Detroit.

[Pooka Fey]

8. A very tragic commentary on this Labor Day 2011

[Sentath]

9. Some scraps are more interesting than others

http://www.fordite.com/

[stockholmer]

13. wow! very nice find

[Quantess]

10. Henry Ford is rolling in his grave.

So tragic.

[stockholmer]

12. Detroit in Ruins-Powerful images of a once great city from the Guardian UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jan/02/photography-detroit

[Lions_fan]

14. +1

Even in it's ruins you can still see it's beauty

[rampart]

15. i pick up cans in new orleans

no shortage of scrap aluminum here.

sometimes i make a little noise or set a dog to barking as i root theough other's trash. "sorry maam," i say to the young woman, "just an old veteran helping to save the planet."

the real money is in copper mining - if i find scrap copper i make it mine. the real hustlers watch the plumbing or electrical being installed in a post katrina rebuild. that very night they are right there with a hacksaw.

i own a home that i rebuilt alone in the six years since the end of our world. i'm out of money and could sure use an hp cartridge and a roll of stamps for the futile printing and mailing of resumes.