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Originally Posted by scribeman
Do you actually realize how far down the path to receivorship Detroit really is? Do you have any idea how bad things are? It's the poorest city in the nation.
It's so bad that people are pulling their dead relatives out of Detroit at a higher rate than population is growing.
I don't like to purposefully knock anything, but it isn't insulting when I say that until I actually moved to Michigan I had never known that poverty and abandoned buildings were so prolific in North America. Detroit is a very bad joke, and I know that I for one am not laughing. Or trying to somehow paint over it with pictures of the .0000000001% of it that still stands.
Yeah, so I'm not "part of the solution", but I'm not lying through a photo lens. Detroit has so many severe problems I feel that pictures such as these (and those insipid casino commercials) are to Detroit what a pictures of someone floating in a suburban pool are to southern India being destroyed by monsoons.
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Are you Dick DeVos? Seriously?! Your argument is basically blame blame blame, followed by woe, blame, over-exaggeration, and then you even pull it together with some comparison to India (where I'm sure Mr. DeVos knows well since he will move jobs there next...)
Thats really the beauty of the lying camera, though. I didn't doctor one of my photos. I didn't add an extra light on in a building or copy happy people on every street corner. I simply display what MY city looks like. And whether your doomsday-laden commentary (as if we aren't used to that!) doesn't get it or - worse yet - can't get it - try to get my simple point here:
WE ARE BUILDING UP AND BUILDING UP -SLOWLY TO BE SURE- AS A GREAT CITY AGAIN BECAUSE WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN A GREAT CITY.
Where people like you slam Detroit by saying 1 Ten-Billiononth of it still stands (you must live here to buy such good crack, dude) the rest of us are enjoying a night at Slows BBQ, watching thousands of new lofts rise, watching a Westin grow from a ruin and watching thousands of people filling this city nearly nightly just for the fact that it is THE city!
I won't lie. Times are rough - there's crime that is still too high, public schools that cannot meet expectations, an auto industry that will behave in the 21st century in a way it never had to in the 20th... but how you can't or won't see the great successes that are still happening is beyond me.
Like I've said for years, Mr. DeVos-in-scribeman's-clothing: you won't be the first person to abandon Detroit, but get out of here fast and let the people who do care and do work for this renaissance - in whatever way they can - keep doing what you choose not to.
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