More Breaking News: Detroit Files for Bankruptcy

Remember back when...well, most of you may not, but back when the first
report of something called "Smog" came out of Los Angeles? I remember
native L Aer's laughing and saying, "I don't trust any air I can't see".
The Media loved their funny L A Smog stories, the man who went out to dump
his garbage and was never seen again...stories like that.
Who among us thought that we were witnessing our own future? In fact, Smog
was already present in most of our industrial centers, we just hadn't named
it yet.
And so, my dear children, snuggle up in your warm little beds and Daddy will
tell you a horror story to help you focus your nightmares.
Detroit is merely the tip of a very real and nasty iceberg.
But it is also a bright and shining beacon.
Beckoning to the vultures and the Wall Street mongrels. "Come, come, come
and feast on the rotten remains of a once proud city".
While the retired city employees watch their pensions and health benefits
being swept up, while city services, already deplorable, become even fewer,
while nursing homes turn into sink holes and elderly people are forced from
their homes and children wander the streets looking for a school, and calls
to 911 go unanswered, and roads and bridges become impassible, and gangs
become the best protection a man can find for his family, when all of that
goes on, the profiteers will be scuttling about like rats in a garbage
dump, sniffing out the bargains, grabbing up all that has been left behind.
And then, my dear little children, a new Detroit will emerge from this
dumping ground, this pile of rubble. But it will not be the proud Detroit
of bygone years, the home of Middle/Working Class men and women, raising
good American children, buying American made products, taking up weapons to
defend America around the world. No, this Detroit will be like a big ugly
wart, crawling with men and women seeking any sort of labor, fighting one
another for sub minimum part-time jobs. Children running in gangs as soon
as they can leave their diaper bags behind. Instead of Automobiles, Crime
will be this Detroit's new industry.
And the sign at the city limits will pronounce, "Detroit, coming soon to a
city near you."

Carl Jarvis

----- Original Message -----
From: "ted chittenden" <tchittenden@cox.net>
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Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:02 PM
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I wonder if it was despite, in spite of, or because of the hiring of the
emergency manager that the city of Detroit was forced to make this filing.
--
Ted Chittenden

Every story has at least two sides if not more.
---- Alice Dampman Humel <alicedh@verizon.net> wrote:


BI'm reading a novel called The Dollmaker that takes place during WW II in
Detroit. The depiction of the industrial horror of the city, the greedy
exploitation of the workers, the horrible conditions they lived in, the
lies, the way they were cheated and lied to, preyed upon both by the big
bosses and even the other working class people out to cheat them, sell them
rotten food,
the ruinous hawking of the American dream, make lots of money then watch the
cannabalistic consumerism eat that money with its glittering promises of
luxury, gadgets, buying on time, until it ate the people, too in true
canabalistic form.
The conditions we see there today are the next step into the great quicksand
sinkhole that started, well, even before then.get rich quick, come and work
for the man, and next thing they knew, they were trapped, imprisoned in
filth, poverty, substandard everything, slavery, horrible working
conditions, utter callousness, and so on.
Alice egin forwarded message:

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> BREAKING NEWS Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:20 PM EDT
> Detroit Files for Bankruptcy
> Detroit, the cradle of America's automobile industry and once the nation's
> fourth-most-populous city, has filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, an official
> said on Thursday. It is the largest American city ever to take such a
> course.
> The decision to turn to the federal courts, which required approval from
> both the emergency manager assigned to oversee the troubled city and from
> Gov. Rick Snyder, is also the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in the
> nation's history in terms of debt.
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