If you have to sell Detroit… good luck with it, cuz its a product no one wants to buy – at any price. And they don’t believe it either and if the city doesn’t, then why should the rest of us?

Einem personifies everything that’s wrong with it and hey, while the city skyline looks stunning from Riverfront Drive over in Windsor, Canada, that’s the best that can be said about it. No one really wants to go there unless they absolutely have to!

NormanF on February 7, 2011 at 5:02 pm

Having grown up in Baltimore, I know what it’s like to see your city turn into a cesspool. It’s damned depressing.

Rick on February 7, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Hee-hee. I don’t know much about Detriot (except what a mess it is…I have never been there, but that’s all I hear peeps talking about) but it looks pretty Liberal…perhaps that is the problem.

Well, I will not be going there anytime soon with that lot of peeps talking about it the way they did. Loved the Transie…but I have a heart for them anyway.

I dunno. It’s a shame peeps won’t vote all the Dem politicians out and fight hard to make Detroit part of America (in a traditional, upwardly-mobile sense…)

I’m sure Detriot is pretty rugged in Winter…I’d hate to see it in the Summer. What a shame.

Skunky on February 7, 2011 at 5:14 pm

Off topic: the guy who beheaded his wife Aasiyah, Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan, was convicted by a New York jury of murder.

Proving the theory there’s no one as stupid as the person who defends himself in court, his theory was his wife abused him. Testimony from the court, including his children, demonstrated the opposite, that his wife obtained a restraining order against him. Little good it did her.

Too bad he won’t get the death penalty. Beheading him would have been suitably just punishment for this Islamic barbarian in a suit. Your Day In the Religion Of Peace & Peaceableness!

NormanF on February 7, 2011 at 5:53 pm

Live in Detroit? Pay a city income tax? Higher insurance premiums? Higher crime rates? Poor or non-existant city services? Throngs of unregulated teens on the streets? Dilapadated buildings and a Lebanon-like landscape? 30% incarcertaion rate among males? 70% dropout rate among high schoolers? 70% abortion rate? 35% unemployment rate? GET REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SP on February 7, 2011 at 6:37 pm

I lived in SE Detroit in 1980. I saw high crime rates, rubbish, burned out and dilapidated buildings, pot holed streets, corrupt and socialist community leaders, abandoned and rusted out cars, self absorbed apparachik teachers, piles of construction rubble, and colorful grafitti. Detroit does have a reputation for innovation. What other city in the US can claim to have the same devastation as Beirut during the civil war without firing a shot?

Doc Holiday on February 8, 2011 at 12:01 am

Detroit,

1. End all taxes (sales, education, income, school, etc.)
2. Use the bulldozer to level every empty building
3. No voting for people on welfare
4. No absentee landlords permitted
5. Close and demolish the public schools. Replace with small community schools and encourage and support home schooling.

Detroit was laid out after Paris. It could become the Paris of the North with a lot of work.

Bill Ford on February 8, 2011 at 7:52 am

before i escaped detroit for seattle 5 years ago, i lived in bordering royal oak… even though i didn’t live in detroit we were close enough to have several crime sprees each summer. the detroit youth’s would regulary go up and down the bordering streets of royal oak, in the wee hours of the night, and break in nearly every car parked in the street… they’d take the stereo’s and anything left in the car. i lost my loose change every time and bought a car stereo with a removable face plate. once, they even bent the back seat to look for stuff in my trunk. uh, bros, i have a fold down middle seat that let’s you crawl into the trunk if you wish.

i could not imagine actually living in the cities PLUS paying city taxes for the “priveledge”.

howardroark43 on February 8, 2011 at 6:31 pm

Hey is that Kelly Leak from The Bad News Bears (1976) @ 0:42?!?!
Sweet!

Kev on February 10, 2011 at 11:53 am