Exhibit A: Detoilet
My sister sent me this article about Detoilet, a city that was once one of the richest cities in the country and was called the Paris of the Midwest. It’s worth a read, but the meat is in this one paragraph.
Detroit is what Democrats do. The last Republican elected mayor of Detroit took office during the Eisenhower administration. The decay of Detroit is not the inevitable outcome of the decline of the automotive industry: The automotive industry is thriving in the United States — but not in Detroit. It isn’t white flight: The black middle class has left Detroit as fast as it can. The model of Detroit politics is startlingly familiar in its fundamentals, distinguished only by its degree of advancement: Advance the interests of public-sector unions and politically connected business cronies, expand the relative size of the public sector remorselessly — and when opposed, cry “Racism!” When people vote with their feet, cry “Racism!” When the budget just won’t balance, cry “Racism!” Never mind that the current mayor of Detroit is the first non–African American to hold that job since the 1970s, or that, as one Detroit News columnist put it, “black nationalism . . . is now the dominant ideology of the [city] council” — somewhere, there must be a somebody else to blame, preferably: aged, portly, white, male, and Republican. No less a fool than Ed Schultz blamed the straits of this exemplar of Democratic single-party rule on “a lot of Republican policies.” Melissa Harris-Perry, “America’s leading public intellectual,” blames Detroit’s problems on its conservatism and small government, oblivious to the fact that Detroit maintains twice as many city employees per resident as do larger cities such as Fort Worth and Indianapolis, and three times as many as liberal San Jose.
“a lot of Republican policies”? When was the last time Republicans ran Detoilet? “Racism”? All the woes in Detoilet were caused by black rule. It’s been run by blacks since 1974 when Coleman Young, the city’s first black mayor was elected and he proved that a black Dimocrat could be just as corrupt as a white Dimocrat. Want more?
The result of all that municipal “investment”? For children newborn through age 18, Detroit sees 120 deaths per 100,000 each year — a rate 26 percent higher than second-place child-killer Philadelphia.
Give Philadelphia time. It has pretty much the same policies with pretty much the same results. Look at Gary Indiana and Camden New Jersey. Same shit.
We just had Senator Tom Harkin, a Dimocrat, return from Cuba who said that Cuba has a better healthcare system than we do and one of the numbers he cited was the infant mortality rate. He also said that Cubans live longer than we do. Detoilet is one reason we have a higher infant mortality rate than Cuba. Another reason is that we define a fetus as viable earlier in pregnancy than most of the rest of the world. In many cases what they would define as a miscarriage we would define as a premature birth and try to save the baby and if we couldn’t that baby would be considered an infant death rather than as a miscarriage. Apples to oranges. But that’s a topic for another post.
Another thing, if you took blacks out of the infant mortality rate and life expectancy rate, our numbers would be a lot higher than they are. Just look at the black mortality rates in Dimocrat run cities. They don’t even have to be run by blacks. St. Louis is not run by blacks, but I remember in at least one year, it was the murder capital of the country.
Racism! Racism! Racism!
Nope. It’s progressivism that is to blame. Dimocrats should be ashamed at what they have done to blacks in this country. They have kept them poor, uneducated, and dependent upon gummint. They have done what Jim Crow laws couldn’t do. They broke up the black family. The black illegitimacy rate in this country is over 70%. That means that the majority of black children are raised by poor and uneducated single mothers. If the KKK had tried to figger out a way to do this, they couldn’t have done a better job than today’s Dimocrat Party. After all, the KKK was the terrorist wing of the Dimocrat Party. They didn’t need the white sheets. All it took were progressive policies. And we’re the racists?
Another group who should be ashamed of themselves are the black useful idiots like the members of the Congressional Black Caucus including “civil rights icon” John Lewis of Atlanta, who have been selling their people down the river by supporting these “enlightened social policies”. You don’t solve poverty by giving poor people money with no strings attached.
Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. We have been fighting a War On Poverty since 1967. We have been giving poor people money with no strings attached ever since then. Poverty was 15% when we started Lyndon Johnson’s Great Fucking Society. We have given poor people trillions of dollars since then. Poverty is still 15%, but liberals progressives rat bastard commies want to continue the same thing. In fact, they want more of it. Obummercare is the result and it may be the final nail in our coffin.
But I digress (as I so often do)
That’s nearly two and a half times the rate in Los Angeles, which isn’t exactly a leafy suburban paradise. Every time our progressive friends come to us with another idea for transferring wealth from the productive economy to them and their friends, they scold us: “Think of the children!” But those who resist their efforts to do to the country at large what they have done to Detroit are thinking of the children.
Ah yes. It’s for the children. You wanna think of “the children”? Stop these people from having children they cannot afford to raise. Stop all the unwed baby mamas having children by multiple sperm donors. But we can’t do that. That’s racism!
Actually, Trevor Loudon has an excellent piece on the very subject. Be sure to read through the comments about the prick in the last photo standing on the far right.
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2013/07/coleman-young-the-communist-who-destroyed-detroit/
Ps. what the outcome is with what two people do with their genitalia is not my fucking problem. Can’t feed ’em, then don’t breed ’em.
And when you do irresponsibly “breed ’em”, don’t come crying to me for money to support them.
Observer Jules (in the comments of that post) doesn’t observe very well. “unbridled capitalism and racism” doomed Detoilet? What a tool!
Absolutely right about that. I don’t care if people shart out their precious snowflakes or not, just stay the hell out of my pocket by means of governmental coercive force with raising them. It really is that simple – do whatever it is that one can afford on their own budget.
I can also fix “Observer Jules” statement too. Seeing that my family and I, had firsthand experience with the makings of the downfall that was 1967 Detroit, yes, the August riots where militant blacks, and assorted wannabe Bill Ayers dregs (yes, Bill Ayers was hanging around U of M Ann Arbor, and the City of Flint, at the time) burned 12 city blocks to the ground, looted everything not bolted down, and sniped at Americans from rooftops. That’s why by October 1967 our ‘creepy ass cracker’ family moved far away from Detroit. The response from the City of Detroit, which ever since the ’67 riots I have referred to it as Liberia West? White Flight.
So, there it is. By using Mob Rule, the Trotskyites leading the charge of militant useful idiot blacks, the Progressives conquered Detroit, and with billions of dollars in state and federal subsidy just a short 4 decades later – bankrupt.
And so goes the nation.
Denny,
Yes, the infant mortality is another great lie. Not only if the fetus dies, is it not considered an infant death, but if the infant dies after being born (in some cases up to 6 months) it is not considered an infant death – just a miscarriage post birth I guess…
My daughter was born with a congenital kidney dysfunction that is not uncommon in Finland or Germany. It took about 3 years and a transplant to get her to “normal.” In European socialized medicine, an amniocentesis is mandatory during pregnancy (also causing a 1 in 350 chance of miscarriage.) They test for this particular kidney malfunction. If detected, you have the option of a mandatory abortion.
My daughter will be celebrating her 18th birthday in a couple weeks.
Bryan
p.s. European doctors have actually asked us for blood samples and such for research. They don’t have any live sample sources over there.
Blacks skew the crime stats as well, If you remove blacks from the sample the US has very little crime. Six percent of the population is responsible for over half the murders and rapes committed in this country. In urban areas the greater majority of all violent crimes are done by blacks and hispanics. Now the Justice Department wants to grant clemency to crack cocaine dealers because they received harsher sentences than powder cocaine dealers. Crack sentences are longer for a reason, that form of the drug much more addictive than the powder form. Crack dealers operate in a much more dangerous environment, hence a higher level of violence is associated with its sales. To say nothing of the devastation it does to lives and entire neighborhoods where it is found.
Damn, Denny, this is soundin’ like the old days when I came here and found rants that made me nod my head and think that I wasn’t alone in my belief that the negative changes taking place in this country should be obvious to everybody. You and Acidman blew through my mind like a great breath of fresh air, Kim and Connie DuToit opened my eyes some more and I haven’t spent much time lookin’ back.
Thanks for doing this. I’m here every day.
Great article by Kevin Williamson on Detoilet:
http://m.nationalreview.com/article/370095/progressivism-kills-kevin-d-williamson
Uh, Willie – That was the article I linked to in the post.
Denny,
I like the rest of the Choir here hum…..AMENNNNNN!
Of course the problems that plague Detroit & Filthadelphia are only the most recognizable as every US city of any size with an entrenched decades long Democratic political machine in charge is experiencing the same rot, crime & decay.
Perhaps if Mr. Lincoln had issued an Emancipation Proclamation and Re-location Act in September of 1862, America would have been different today. People could have been emancipated, proclamated and re-located back to their host country at no cost.
Some of them did go to Liberia,
I think they went back to attend taxi driver school.
That is true. Then they rioted on Belle Isle, on June 20, 1943. And again, in 1967.
And we can see parallels in both places.
Any city that has a Martin Luther King Blvd/St./Way/Ave. is doomed as well. That poor man must be spinning in his grave to see what his people have done with the opportunities he died to give them. I keep waiting for the race war they keep threatening. So far it is an insurgency, I wish they would bring it out into open warfare so we could get it over with once and for all. I don’t hate them, I just hate what they are doing. Most of them bring no value to the society at all.
Detroit, Chicago, St Louis, same scenario, same problem. Here in Kansas, a few years ago, my then property manager rented to a family that had fled Chicago. A few months in, I began to think they had fled the CPD, and not the neighborhood. While they were not caught in the act, it became evident that a rash of thefts tended to follow them where ever they moved in town. The family was a typical act, no jobs, no education, and cried racist when you came looking for rent. When I filed for eviction, they countered by claiming I was not maintaining the property, and listed a host of problems, none of which had been reported to me or my manager. When I went by to check on these supposed problems prior to the court date, I was refused entry, and they called the cops and claimed I was harassing them. When the court date arrived for the trial, they no showed. The house was trashed, and over half the windows were broken. On the date I went to check, only a week earlier, there were no broken windows. Can’t garnish an EBT card.