Collins Report

By Suzanne Eovaldi

Once proud Detroit, the apogee of American inventiveness and entrepreneurship, now looks like Dresden after an Allied bombing raid. To understand the destruction visited on the Motor City view this youtube video : www.lewrockwell.com /blog/lewrw/archives/46523.html.: scene after scene of abject despair recalls rapper Eminem’s lament of the darkness of Detroit.

Videographer Steve Crowder shows us gallons of antifreeze, the stuff meth is made of, and climbs decrepit stairs where fresh packs of syringes are stacked amid broken glass and utter destruction. The camera focuses on a big mosque carrying Crowder’s theme that 41 years of liberal politicians and policies have destroyed the city that once had America’s highest median income, and rapacious unions have drained out Detroit’s life blood, leaving wronged residents, uneducated youth, and unbelievable urban decay.

He debunks the canard that Detroit failed because its products weren’t green enough. Car buyers want SUVs and trucks. Even though the American auto industry produced more greens than other countries, Crowder said the stultifying union salaries and benefits piled $1,200 onto each car sold rendering Detroit unable to compete in price. He also called out the teachers’ unions who care more about protecting their own jobs than educating to graduation Detroit’s unfortunate children.

“A once great city was brought to its knees by government bureaucracies and unions.”

With only 25% of its students graduating from high school and the average home price at $5,700, what hope does America’s once proud icon have of surviving? Crowder says for the last 41 years, beginning with Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh, Detroit has been in the throes of failed government model cities programs that began with Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society experiment. Entire generations of entitlement junkies who see no reason to work for a living and who vote solidly for Democrats have left Detroit in ruins.

An apocryphal quote attributed to Scottish history professor Alexander Tyler details the fall of the Athenian Republic because a democracy “..is always temporary and only will exist until voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. Loose fiscal policies bring down the world’s greatest civilizations which complete a cycle beginning and ending with bondage. Early stages of a free society go from bondage to spiritual faith to great courage which brings liberty. Such liberty then results in abundance which leads to complacency which causes apathy.”
Democracies collapse into a dictator’s iron grip.

Does Detroit our once shining city on capitalism’s hill now presage a putrid hell for all of us locked in liberalism’s largess?

Stand up for America; stand up with your family friends neighbors and “old friends” you’ve never met. Let’s all do something amazing together. Let’s all be heroes together as we go about restoring and saving our nation.

The very life of American is in our hands. Let’s all stand up for our beloved America and be worthy of the name American

Use this site to contact your Congressional Representative:

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Sources: http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-the-deficit-2010-3

Suzanne Eovaldi is a retired reporter and Journalism School Professor from the Chicago area now living in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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This day in history March 27
2002: Passover Massacre is carried out by a Palestinian suicide bomber. It killed 29 people having a Passover meal in Netanya Israel.

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