Detroit & Flint MI... Article

[I am Ironman]

When you think it can't get any worse for the people of these 2 cities....


http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/14/us/michigan-crisis-flint-water-detroit-schools/index.html

 

[LionJim]

Yes, pitiful. It's a third world situation there. If you click the link pay particular attention to the Flint water situation.

 

[NittanyOpp]

Now they all gonna be rich

 

[Beech Cricker]

And yet with the Flint water crisis and the (ongoing) calamity that is the Detroit schools, I came across Michigan's governor hobnobbing at the Detroit auto show yesterday.

 

[LionJim]

And yet with the Flint water crisis and the (ongoing) calamity that is the Detroit schools, I came across Michigan's governor hobnobbing at the Detroit auto show yesterday.

Yeah, yeah, well, he's the mayor, it's about getting money into the city. What's he's supposed to do, hide? God, an impossible job he has. It's horrible.

 

[Beech Cricker]

Yeah, yeah, well, he's the mayor, it's about getting money into the city. What's he's supposed to do, hide? God, an impossible job he has. It's horrible.

Mayor? City? No, I'm talking about the governor. No, he shouldn't hide but he has certainly been sleeping at the switch (actually switches) for quite some time.

 

[jabba2]

Now they all gonna be rich

How so? Im sure the answer will be for the government or army corps to fix it. Detroit and Flint, Mich are too corrupt to do anything themselves.

 

[LionJim]

he has certainly been sleeping at the switch (actually switches) for quite some time.

Concur.

 

[kgilbert78]

Much of Detroit could only be improved by a bulldozer. Just go to Streetview on Google maps--it is an eyeopener. Blocks of streets with only a couple of houses left--yet the city has to provide full utilities and services as if there were still fully occupied streets.

 

[Beech Cricker]

Much of Detroit could only be improved by a bulldozer. Just go to Streetview on Google maps--it is an eyeopener. Blocks of streets with only a couple of houses left--yet the city has to provide full utilities and services as if there were still fully occupied streets.

I've maintained that for years--get a huge fleet of dozers and go at it. As it stands the city simply cannot keep up with the needed demolitions, both residential and commercial. Throw in contaminated sites and it gets all the more mind-boggling. Yet downtown and mid-town are experiencing quite a turnaround--for the good.

 

[Cletus11]

I think somebody did a article several years ago that if they took all the money that was sunk into Camden, New Jersey since 1960, they could have bulldozed and rebuilt the entire city twice. So yes, in the end, better off biting the bullet, bulldozing large amount of houses and starting fresh. Of course that doesn't line the pockets of the politicians so it won't get done.