  Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6692 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: From across the ocean... another take: http://www.independent.co.uk/o pinion/commentators/rupert-cor nwell/rupert-cornwell-down-tro dden-detroit-fights-for-its-ve ry-soul-899611.html | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 3418 Registered: 09-2007 |
Actually, by next year, a McDonald's Cheeseburger will be worth more than a home in Detroit. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 8281 Registered: 10-2003 |
Excellent. Then I can pursue my villainous plans of buying entire neighborhoods and turning them into gated communities. | ||
Sludgedaddy Member Username: Sludgedaddy Post Number: 114 Registered: 01-2008 |
....All this from a gentleman from Great Britan...gee I think their problems with dental decay surpasses the ruins of Detroit's industry. Want to get a kid to brush his teeth? Show him a few pictures of a British smile! | ||
Bragaboutme Member Username: Bragaboutme Post Number: 458 Registered: 02-2008 |
That just goes to show you how far our reputation is reaching and it's not that good. | ||
Sean_of_detroit Member Username: Sean_of_detroit Post Number: 1525 Registered: 03-2008 |
I miss the pre Super Bowl attitudes.  | ||
Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover Post Number: 267 Registered: 02-2008 |
Wow the British teeth joke, we haven't heard that one before, how original. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6693 Registered: 10-2003 |
Gee sorry Sludgedaddy for posting that. I guess it doesn't matter that the sorry state of affairs is news on the other side of the world. | ||
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger Post Number: 393 Registered: 05-2008 |
Aiw, thank you for posting the article. I found it interesting. | ||
Sludgedaddy Member Username: Sludgedaddy Post Number: 116 Registered: 01-2008 |
Aiw, The United States is not held in very high regard in the eyes of most countries overseas. Pointing out the plight of the City of Detroit by foreign media is akin to a swift kick to the groin to the U.S. Most foreign journalists are reporting what they happen to see from their perspective and not that of a Detroiter,however. That view perhaps will change when and if new inspired leadership appears not in a pimp suit but with rolled up sleeves. Not in a tricked out Escalade, but with a photo op on a tractor or an earth mover. When it's children are willing to learn in a educational system willing to teach. When the grass is mowed, reforestation is started and the move into the 21st century begins....then watch how world opinion will change. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 3420 Registered: 09-2007 |
quote: I miss the pre-1970 attitudes. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6694 Registered: 10-2003 |
Sludgedaddy, that may be so, but Detroit because of its musical past is held in very high regard across Europe. | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 2210 Registered: 02-2007 |
Quote: "When it's children are willing to learn in a educational system willing to teach. When the grass is mowed, reforestation is started and the move into the 21st century begins....then watch how world opinion will change." Thats a great outlook, but nothing to back it up. What has changed or is going to change that is going cause this to happen? I was just downtown a few hours ago. It's really sad. So much history rotting into the ground. People make a city, and the people I see there don't seem to care. I'm sitting at a light and some kid comes flying down the parking lane on a motorcycle and blows right thru the red light. You think that person cares about the quality of community in Detroit? Escalades out in front of houses that haven't seen paint or a new roof in 70 years at least. I'm sorry, but until the people of the Detroit suburbs change, the city will continue on it's path. One cannot keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. | ||
Border5150 Member Username: Border5150 Post Number: 219 Registered: 03-2004 |
Quote: "Actually, by next year, a McDonald's Cheeseburger will be worth more than a home in Detroit." By this rationale, the BiG Mac, Quarter Pounder, etc are ALREADY worth more than a house in Detroit. Quote: "I'm sorry, but until the people of the Detroit suburbs change, the city will continue on it's path" Why? What's wrong with the suburbs (I think I know what you're getting at though). What Metro Detroit needs - what the whole city needs for that matter - is a completely open no-holds-barred forum on Detroit, the suburbs, race, politics, economics - the whole nine yards; Kind of like the summit Karmanos called last week regarding Kwame-gate. Has anything like this ever been tried? At least since the 67 riots?? | ||
Sludgedaddy Member Username: Sludgedaddy Post Number: 117 Registered: 01-2008 |
The science fiction genre extrapolated on two views of the future: 1) A Technological Utopia 2)A return to the Primordial It seems the Metro area and Detroit is on a road to the later. Depressing... I'm driving a 16 year old hooptie and not the promised Lev-a-Car. Sad, very sad, Stashman, the scene you described.I't also very sad when the children of Surburbia are zombied out on Ritalin and plugged in to Star Wars vid games and probably never have seen a real night sky. .....well, it's cooler outside now. I guess I'll go outside, pick up the blowing chip bags and mow my Detroit lawn. |
