We all know how bad things are in Detroit. What did you do when you were here to help make things right?

“Now, with an estimated 5,000 of some of the poorest people in America displaced by the real estate crash, Highland Park’s future looks grim.” Seriously? NOW? Where were you thirty or fifty years ago?

Thanks for nothing.

I’ll pick a few:

You cannot absolutely state that Highland Park is the worst neighborhood, hands down. Detroit and Highland park cover well over 150 square miles. Anyone who has been in Detroit for more than a day knows of more decrepit areas. Try stepping out of your car at Palmer and Chene, I dare you.

- 30 Philidelphia is not Tudor nor does its exterior have stucco and it is well over a half-mile south of Highland Park, in Detroit. This area is near the epicenter of the 1967 riots.

- Any contemporary middle-aged person (such as Franklin Gaudy) could not possibly remember Highland Park in its prime.

- White suburbanites regarding Devil’s Night as the worst thing about Detroit? Maybe in 1980something.

Absentee (out-of-state) real estate speculators deserve as much blame for Detroit’s present state, especially downtown. Our spectacular collection of early 20th century apartment buildings are forever lost only because absentee landlords bled them to ruin.

Driving through Detroit and daring to step out of your car a few times does not give you license to write an authoritarian piece. I have met too many people who have garnered a cartoon-like image of what Detroit is from reading pieces like these. Please don’t do this again.

First off, maybe I just got trolled… but $22 an hour is barely scraping by. I make about that much at 40 hours a week and Im still in college at U of M and live with my dad. Minimum wage doesn’t pay rent in Detroit or elsewhere, regardless of how much crack you smoke. If you make 22 an hour you can survive, but you got nothing extra after rent, utilities and food. Its just sad that the big three had to die because they gave their employees a fair wage and benefits. The average employee working for a foreign automaker or supplier earns about half as much as their domestic counterparts. Buy the foreign cars, ruin detroit and soon the american dream entirely. I hope that when you’re driving your toyota, u think about the americans who lost their jobs so you can have a shit car and pay shittier employees half as much.

I believe that most suburbanites near “The D” (“The D” is definitely Detroit, not Dallas) would agree that they love the city of Detroit and want to help. But there isn’t much to be done until said suburbanites stop fearing the city, embrace it, and once again make it the place to live work and play. Go tigers!

here’s mine:

YO Fucktards talk is all well and good, but doin somethin is the only way to change things…
as per the uber fucktard(s) who wants to get rid of all the blacks… someone needs to shoot your stupid ass. it’s not their fault our ansestors made them slaves and brought them here in the first place; so shut your hole!

See savethefueltax.org

As our economic collapse continues and spreads across the remnants of the middle class, redistributive government will be resisted. It will become clear to all that self-reliance is the only way.

There is some solace that when America is poor enough, big industry actually can come back. As people cease to pay others not to work, and as people are more desperate, wages will fall and all the laws which artificially inflate the costs of doing business will be wiped away. It will eventually be cheaper to pay Americans to produce the things we buy from overseas, rather than paying foreigners to produce them while ALSO paying Americans NOT to produce them, inflating the costs.

Further, the federal government will lose control soon when it finishes destroying the currency. This is very real. We are borrowing 40 cents on the dollar to fund government. Very soon, no one will lend, and the only way to fund government will be to print money. The government checks will clear, but a hot dog will cost $35 in no time. At which point, money will lose ground to barter, and the struggling people will ignore the yoke of laws and taxes as the starving ignore the taboo of cannibalism in a lifeboat. Natural law will reassert itself, shrugging off the artificial constructs that only a boom of wealth and imprudence allow.

It is sad that such pain is needed to make real change, but history shows it to be reality. As for who to blame? Don’t blame capitalism. Real capitalism is what will return when government is cast off. The problems, usually blamed on capitalism, are actually abuses of capitalism. When big business, whether union or management, co-opts the lawmakers to subbvert the free market, that is not capitalism. It is fascism. And the US is full of it, long has been. When individuals are free, and have no way to put food on the table except to produce something that someone else wants to buy, THAT is capitalism. And great, though inequal, amounts of wealth are produced. When people use the force of government to compel others to purchase things (over priced cars, senseless wars, sexual harassment training, etc) they don’t want, at artificially high prices, you have fascism. The pie shrinks, because a whole class lives as parasites by force rather than producing. And great booms and busts result. Far greater than any in a free market. Add to that the manipulation of the currency, and voila! The USA.

Restore freedom. Vote Libertarian. Support freedom and property rights.

We can rise again.

Stop blaming blacks. It’s bedwetters like myself who are the real problem. We are sad pathological bedwetters. We imagine that blacks destroy EVERY place they infest. I wish I could take personal responsibility but I can’t so I blame negroes for all our problems.

White Racism is simply self-esteem therapy. Of course – the one tragic, horrific mistake that Whites make is to ignore me and assume they shouldn’t listen to a bedwetter. STOP it.

It’s THEM. The Negroes.You can’t fix “Negro”.