Detroit thread. Post Kwame, Monica, and $1 houses here.

Started by MadImmortalMan, March 17, 2009, 12:39:21 PM

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Eddie Teach

#825
July 18, 2013, 04:49:16 PM
Quote from: Barrister on July 18, 2013, 04:25:58 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 18, 2013, 04:22:53 PM
If?  He has a hometown.  :huh:

He wants to downplay the fact his hometown is Jakarta...  :secret:

Why, he's not running anymore.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

CountDeMoney

#826
July 18, 2013, 05:40:15 PM
If Cleveland could do it, survive and come back better, so can Detroit.

Phillip V

#827
July 18, 2013, 06:54:19 PM
Detroit needs Mitt Romney.

Ed Anger

#829
July 18, 2013, 07:00:52 PM
It's Marshal Ney.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Eddie Teach

#830
July 18, 2013, 08:48:52 PM
Quote from: Phillip V on July 18, 2013, 06:54:19 PM
Detroit needs Mitt Romney.

I think Detroit's been raided enough.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Phillip V

#831
July 18, 2013, 08:50:24 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 18, 2013, 08:48:52 PM
Quote from: Phillip V on July 18, 2013, 06:54:19 PM
Detroit needs Mitt Romney.

I think Detroit's been raided enough.

Mormon settlers would enrich and repopulate the city.

DGuller

#832
July 18, 2013, 09:44:28 PM
Quote from: Phillip V on July 18, 2013, 06:54:19 PM
Detroit needs Mitt Romney.
:hmm: Damn, he has been right after all.

Caliga

#833
July 19, 2013, 06:52:15 AM
Quote from: Phillip V on July 18, 2013, 06:54:19 PM
Detroit needs Mitt Romney.
If they made Romney like an emergency manager for Detroit and he actually managed to bring it back, he should definitely be POTUS.  In fact, he should probably be Emperor of the World. :)
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Savonarola

#834
July 19, 2013, 12:20:25 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 18, 2013, 04:30:48 PM
What will da feds do? Nothing? Something? A lot?

Conventional wisdom is that the Federal Government will do nothing.  If they bail out Detroit they'll have to bail out every city or state that faces bankruptcy.

The state of Michigan may be on the hook for the pension funds; municipal pensions are guaranteed by the state constitution.  A number of the pundits seem to think that won't hold up in bankruptcy court.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#835
July 19, 2013, 12:26:30 PM
I read online news in this order:

Le Monde
Al-Jazeera
BBC
CNN
Detroit Free Press
Detroit News
Orlando Sentinel
Miami Herald

How bad the news out of Detroit is can be determined by how close it is to the top of that list.  The most shared story on Le Monde today is:

La ville américaine de Detroit se déclare en faillite

Zut alors!
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Admiral Yi

#836
July 19, 2013, 03:09:35 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on July 19, 2013, 12:20:25 PM
The state of Michigan may be on the hook for the pension funds; municipal pensions are guaranteed by the state constitution.  A number of the pundits seem to think that won't hold up in bankruptcy court.

Interesting.

fhdz

#837
July 19, 2013, 04:25:47 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on July 19, 2013, 12:26:30 PM
La ville américaine de Detroit se déclare en faillite

Zut alors!

:lol:
and the horse you rode in on

citizen k

#838
July 19, 2013, 05:35:05 PM
President Obama: "If I was the mayor of a city it would look like Detroit."

DGuller

#839
July 19, 2013, 09:55:25 PM
Quote from: citizen k on July 19, 2013, 05:35:05 PM
President Obama: "If I was the mayor of a city it would look like Detroit."
:XD: :pinch:
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