Detroit on the Brink: what 50 straight years of Democrat rule has done to a once great city
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
Detroit’s death spiral began with Coleman Young’s failed administration.
From 1974 until he left in 1994 Detroit became the quintessential liberal Democrat city. It offered nothing but high crime and low prospects and accelerated White middle class flight.
When the under skilled and overmatched Kwame Kilpatrick was carted off to prison the Motor City virtually ceased to exist. Now after 50 years of inept Democrat political hack administrations Detroit is among the worst places in live in America.
For the past three years FBI statistics have shown Detroit is the murder capital of the nation. Per capita it is more dangerous than Baghdad. Even the outgoing fired Police Chief went home to find his house ransacked by burglars. There are neighborhoods in the city so desolate “the police haven’t patrolled [them] in years.”
The situation in the city they call “Motown” is such that a huge section has been described as “30 square blocks of urban prairie.”
Detroit’s poor condition and decimation is hard to imagine.
These facts paint the picture of what 50 years of Democrats has brought
There are over 16, 000 foreclosed homes in the city, many of which have been taken over by squatters much as could be expected in the old West’s ghost towns.
In January Detroit’s unemployment hit 22.2%!
Even before the full destructive force of Barack Obama’s Marxist policies have been felt, a Detroit real estate agent reported selling a house for a single dollar. He had at least four more $1.00 homes, 1228 houses for sale at under $10,000 and 209 of them under $1,000!
The median selling price of a house in Detroit has tumbled from $66,000 to $5,800 since 2002.
Fifty years of swallowing Democrat lies has gotten Detroiters ever increasing misery. Now they must take responsibility for their votes.
Detroit is a special case because it is an isolated specimen of what happens when people are elected because the liberals in the Democrat Party have arranged their victory.
John Conyers wife Monica is a perfect example of the damage liberal Democrats have done to Detroit and would do to America unless we fight to stop them.
Mrs. Conyers, the chairwoman of the Detroit City Council is the spouse of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.). She has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges because she sold the deciding vote to award a $1.2 billion contract to a Texas sludge removal company.
While she will be spending about 3 years in federal prison for this, the fools who voted for her would re-elect her in a heartbeat. The only unforgivable crime Black voters will hold against a Black politician is being a conservative Republican.
For all these years the Democrats have been in charge but they have blamed Republicans for the city’s decline. When will Black Democrats admit they have been taken by the Democrat Party? Probably never; we’ll see more Detroits before we see them get it right and accept the truth.
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