Quote Originally Posted by Rolfsy View Post
Not rushing to Folrida's defense, but nothing in the article points to him calling Detroiters 'suckers'. He's stating an obvious fact - sometimes things break down to the point most sane people will walk away. Detroit has been a longshot for 40 years or more, and the odds just keep getting longer.

I think what he's really saying in this, if he was thinking of Detroiters as the audience specifically, is that Monster Factory Town 1942 Detroit is not coming back. Which makes sense, if only because there's no geographical reason that the entire auto industry should be located in one spot. Plus, mechanization has ruined factories as neighborhood-fillers [[maybe another reason so many advise against chasing smokestacks?).
Unfortunately that message still fails to penetrate the willful ignorance of most of the local leadership and populace. No matter who the messenger is... be it John "the jobs arent coming back" McCain in 2008 or Richard Florida today, people will line up to shoot him rather than addressing the issue.