Visiting Detroit Ends in Stereotypical Fashion

[Lorax]

I don't know what to say! I live in Warrendale, and my house was been broken into on a Saturday afternoon at 3:28 pm.

I tell you, there are just too many people in this city who have not been raised to respect other people, other people's property, and law & order in general. It is disturbing.

Who to get mad at more, the degenerates who stole the catalytic converters, or the greedy criminals who are buying them?

What we need is to get all of those 5,849,993 churches we have in the city, both mega-church and storefront ones, to do their part and go to out and teach some morals and values to all of these soulless, heartless imbeciles who wreak havoc on everybody, or at least teach the parents how to raise a child so that they won't end up being leaches on society.

What we also need to do, is get of all those people who live in the city and former residents, who have been victims of crimes, thousands upon thousands, to hold a gigantic sit-in at city hall - to shut down city government so that we can demonstrate to the city government, county government, state government, the federal government that we, the honest, hardworking, and productive citizens of the city, can't live like this anymore and we are not going to take this lawlessness anymore.

I am currently working for the US Army Corps of Engineers in Afghanistan for 6 months. We are spending BILLIONS in building up the infrastructure of this country - roads, schools, dams, POLICE STATIONS. That money could well be spent on improving law enforcement and professional development training in troubled cities like Detroit.

Quite true, and a good point. We can spend billions in foreign countries fixing what we shouldn't have destroyed in the first place, but when it comes to broad reaching initiatives to rebuild our cities in America, all we get is bureaucratic bullshit.

The Rethuglicans here will have a field day with this, calling such broad reaching initiatives as "socialism" or "communism" which is a crock of crap.

Let me just ask this one question-

Are any of you out there tired of our government spending billions on foreign nations as Master mentions, while our cities look like bombed out war zones?

How about a WPA, 21st century style, to bring our built environment back to our major cities?

With the monies spent overseas, Detroit could have a regional subway system, bullet trains, all roads repaved, Belle Isle restored to it's 19th century beauty, new infrastructure, manicured parks, etc.

All it takes is reassorting the priorities of how money is wasted in this country. I would rather "waste" it on us, and have somenthing to show for it.