HUD is funded by tax dollars, idiot.

IM NOT EVEN GOING TO COMMENT

The New Communism: Bankrupt a city through socialist policies, seize the abandoned property, use forcefully taken tax dollars to renovate abandoned property and then redistribute the wealth. Rinse and Repeat.

I’m going to open an ammo store there. I should make a killing!

A WASTE of money! Want to get more people to live in Detroit? Make the people more civilized – get rid of crime and poverty by encouraging two parent families – start with some tough love by taking away money form those who give birth out of wedlock – bring back orphanages if you have to. The clean the place up, substantially lower taxes by throwing everyone off the payroll except for essential services. Since you will have two parent families you won’t need as many police of firemen. Do everything you can to get manufacturing in – offer complete tax relief if you have to – you can make it up on sales taxes from the purchases of the new workers.

But, we all know that you will do none of the above, all that is going to be done is band aid stuff. Detroit is a perfect example of what happens when Democrats are completely in charge – look around you Detroit, you are a Democrat paradise, and the ultimate Democrat city. This is what happens when Democrats are given complete control – misery, misery misery. The media refuses to call it what it is = the product of voting for Democrats.

And yet you don’t learn. Vote Democrat – join the third world.

Does the silly person who wrote this “article” know what HUD is?

Whar is to stop these “enterprising civil service slouches from taking the offer and then renting out the house that they got at a bargain purchase?

With all the corruption in that city, I wouldn’t be surprised if it happenned.

Apparently not, I assume “neighborhood stabilization funding” is somehow subsidized by the tax payer as well.

What a moron. Who in their right mind would want to live in the mecca of marxist/socialist Michigan. There is a reason why Detroit is no longer the center of world auto production. The unions and government ruined them and are only continuing the trend.. Perhaps the Obama regime will pass law making it illegal to buy anything other than a GM? Just like health care, buy it or pay a fine, do not pass GO on your way jail…….

I cants afford dat. Go lowers.

And keep voting in those who are responsible for this mess – the Democrat party. What does it say about people when year after year they continue to vote in those who led to what happened in Detroit? It was Democrats guys – they fleeced you, ignored you, stole from you, then blamed it on racism. They took you from the first world to the third world – a few rich, most of them on the government payroll, and the rest of you poor. Your families can’t be put back together – Detroit is DEAD and the DEMOCRATS are to blame, as well as the fools who kept voting these arrogant crooks into office year by year. FOOLS!!

why would any police or firefighters want to live inside a city that is so crime ridden that the danger of getting shot or robbed is higher than in the suburbs….Detroit is almost all black and that is where the most trouble is….

Great post

So this is how civilizations become buried under dust only to be found 3 thousand years from now. Some guys remains clinging to an NBA Championship trophy and an uzzie.

Truth reigns eternal, and that sounds like truff!

Why are police and firefighters given homes for free? In case noone is paying attention, the governing class has long since forgotten about the private sector, except at tax time, and operates to the benefit of government workers.

Detroit is notoriously a miserable and scary place to be. Cross the city boundry to a suburb , and its livable. Why is a city boundry so imporant? Take a hint.

Michigan is odd. A friend lost his job. The government threw him in jail until he pays child support, ironically, he cannot interview for a job in jail.

Oddity #2 – they did not call it debtor’s prison, but contempt of court, but he is in jail for not paying a debt.

Oddity #3 – And his neighbors in Michigan do not pay mortgages, rent out the houses, and pocket the cash. They are free.

And people argue for more government involvement.

The American Street knows they have been lied to.

both of our corrupt political parties
all of our corrupt controlled media

Exactly, we need to get rid of unions so we can lower the wages to Chinese wages. You bet your butt we’ll be competitive then.

If they sit vacant for more than two minutes the local homeless people strip out all the metal fixtures, plumbing, wiring, etc., and they aren’t worth what it would cost to tear them down.

and where wd these guys send their children to school

And hell, as if they need more “cops” in Detroit! The swill there are worse than the criminals! Must have imported them from Chicago or some other sewer like that.

Obama has already found a way to make us buy GM stock. The bailout was funded by us.

Everything is funded by taxes … where do you think the money comes from? Government is in the business of making money, your money. Get it!

why are police and firefighters given homes for free?

because they are in a Union, and their votes can be purchased.

Great post, only the truth. Imagine an entire state run by Dems and compound the downward spiral, say,,, California?

I HAVE to repeat this one.

The New Communism: Bankrupt a city through socialist policies, seize the abandoned property, use forcefully taken tax dollars to renovate abandoned property and then redistribute the wealth. Rinse and Repeat.

“What does it say about people when year after year they continue to vote in those who led to what happened in Detroit? ”

It says that they are slaves.

If Detroit would legalize marijuana and hemp and allow it to be grown on all the open lots, they could turn the city around in 5 years and show a profit.

you wouldn’t know that if you went to Detroit public schools

As long as the stupid politicians keep sending out free checks every month, and providing free health care, and providing free food…. the illegals and the poor folks will keep making babies!!!!

In most slum cities like Detroit, you either become very good at Basketball or Football and become a professional athlete…

Or, you suck off of the Government’s tittie for the rest of your life…

Or, you go to prison for the rest of your life.

So, why do those stupid people keep having kids?!

That’s a big turn of events.

Police and Fire Fighters living in “The Projects”!

Sounds like they are “Movin’ on Down,…. to the West Side!”.

Look, I’m a Republican but let’s be honest, the state in which Detroit currently finds itself in is not directly related to full Democratic control of both Congress and the White House. Detroit is a perfect example of the state our economy is in. No manufacturing, minimal reinvestment in American businesses, both local and national and an exodus of young Americans seeking jobs in the service sector (outside Detroit).

The manufacturing base of the country did not expand during the Bush Administration. From all reports, approximately 8 million jobs were sent overseas during the past 10 years. The Democrats have surely done their part to keep entrepreneur’s from taking risks but to say that the complete control from 2008 through 2010 caused this problem is not exactly correct.

I do agree that the breakdown of society’s social fabric does stem from many Democratic policies.

Cops, big paychecks, no laws and free housing (as long as they kill for the gov’t), yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress, except Ron Paul.
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I agree with the above. I will never understand why low-income people keep having children, when they damn well know they can’t afford them.

These unfortunate children have no chance, or a very slim chance of ever getting out of the projects. And so, generation after generation grows up in the slums of Detroit and other cities, and the cycle just keeps repeating itself.

If I was a cop, I would live as far away as possible from I worked. Their job is hard enough, without having to constantly worry about their families and their home.

Yeh, We can own one, just can’t drive it.
Because it belongs to The United Socialist States of America – USSA

Sorry. You lost all credibility when you started with “..I’m a Republican…”. Sure you are!

tru dat

Double tru dat

Deetroit is what teh new Amerika will look like.

FAIL

who wants to live in a third world african nation?

Concerned citizen, if what you say is true, then why isn’t all of the country in as bad shape as democrat dominated ones like Detriot? Can you name a republican dominated city or state that is ilke a war zone that everybody is afraid to live in? The only ones I can think of are solid democrat voting areas.

GEE , THE CONTENDERS FOR MAYOR IN CHICAGO WANT TO LET THE CITY WORKERS MOVE OUT , CAN WE BE DETROITS MIRROR IMAGE /

Of course, Its ALL Bush’s fault.

Clinton signed NAFTA and the manufacturing sector didn’t expand during Clinton’s administration either.

The destruction of the black (and to some extent the white family)- Lib/Dem policies.

The destruction of the public educational system- Lib/Dem policies and the unions

But its really Bush’s fault.

Yea, you’re a republican.

if you like what the unions/democrats/liberals have done for detroit, then you will love what they want to do TO America

More children = More Money from Uncle Sugar ( actually you and me).

[...] Detoit Mayor Pushing Police To Live In City [...]

No local tax dollars will be used. I find this project worthwhile.

Shhhh…..you taxpaying dregs are not supposed to know that this is ALL going to be paid for with YOUR money. Whoever wrote this obviously thinks you are to odumb to know that “This is not going to be paid with tax$$$” when he/she made that comment. MSM media =lying propaganda machine.

HealthCareReform=”Final Solution.”

I am fully aware that these comments are hardly read by anyone but I just must say something about Detroit. I lived in the Washington DC area for over 26 years and now live in Montana, thank God. I do know a little about life in the inner cities of the US. What Detroit is now is the result of 50 years of Marxist city governments, sky high taxes, the breakdown of the black family unit, the invasion of Mexicans, black and Mexican youth gangs, drugs, rampant street crime, and no tax base, white flight do to crime, taxes, and terrible schools. No middle class family will ever live in Detroit again. You might as well burn the entire city down and start completely over. As long as there is rampant street crime, black and Mexican youth gangs, sky-high taxes, hughe welfare roles, terrible schools, and on and on, the city will remain a ruin of lives.

Oh as if they don’t have the money already to do this. Why not offer these homes to the disabled, or the elderly, or both? No, let’s instead give them away to people who work for unions making 7 figures with full health benefits and pensions that are the real culprits breaking the city budgets nationwide….

The cops know better, they’ll stay in the suburbs because they know living in that jungle means being there 24/7 365 which means their chances that they won’t stay alive long enough to cash in on their golden platinum parachutes so they can retire at 50 and spend the rest of their days on the beaches of Florida go down exponentially.

The very same reason anyone who can has escaped ……

They wonder why people are angry at cops and firefighters and teachers, these are supposed to be public service jobs, not royalty. Not to mention half the cops are probably cashing in on the take as well doing triple dipping in these urban jungles where the cops don’t prevent crimes, all they do is clean up after homicides half the time.

When was the last time someone there had something ripped off that was returned to them>? Probably never.

“I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.”
- Frederick (II) the Great

http://911essentials.com

If you don’t get killed making a killing Tex

Ammo will be as valuable as gold when this administration tries to back door our second amendment by making ammo so expensive no one can afford it except all the groids who steal it whenever possible the way things are going under Barack Hussein GhettObama

Ms. P thinks you are correct, Thor. The next question, however, is WHY they are so “savage?” Ms. P thinks it is a wide variety of things, some of which are in fact the long-term result of Democratic policies (e.g., welfare, destruction of two-parent families, 70% plus illegitimacy, as well as job-killing policies – regulations, taxes, minimum wages…the list goes on) and some of which are not, e.g., general moral decline in society, the coarsening culture, etc. Ms. P does not buy into the views of some that this is a significantly or totally genetic thing. Ms. P does think, however, that the situation won’t turn around unless and until these fundamental issues affecting and within the “black community” are addressed and rectified.

Unlike every other city like Chicago, now with Rahm running for mayor as a non-resisident where you couldn’t be a residient without living there, Detroit wants its government/unionized residents back. Now that all of them have failed and created the worst US city, we in the country have to subsidize them moving back to a disaster they helped to create through voiting, unions, and incompetence. We taxpayers from across the US say “NO.” You are the poster children for liberal, racist pro black, third world corruption levels, victim-philosophy, failed welfare, hate business ideology results. Wallow in your own anti-American results from forty years of hatred of all things American.

“Detroit is a perfect example of what happens when Democrats are completely in charge – look around you Detroit, you are a Democrat paradise, and the ultimate Democrat city”

Yea third word illegal alien ghetto paradise CHEEcanocago isn’t far behind. Thank God I live safely to the north of that democratic created zoo..Talk about third world dumps.

The only places you can go unarmed while white is on the Mag Mile and northside,

Other than that it’s open season on anyone not carrying even though Daley’s usurped the 2nd amendment, we’re armed to the hilt outside ghettoland.

i want to buy a few city blocks and build my own compound. itd be awesome. have my own farm there and everything..lol.

I know what it means, Housing for Urban Deadbeats mostly.

lol…Iz hearz ya bro…..dang, my welfares aints enough, I needs much mo. yo…

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One could expect that within hours of moving in, a police officer would probably have to shoot one of his neighbors.

Funny Eric, you would prefer not having wages, instead you want welfare. Unions turn everything to garbage. Are you one of those Chrysler workers out drinking and smoking dope on the job?

Isn’t it hilarious how liberals think the government has their own money?!!! Morons…It’s our money dangit….I guess they would think that since most have never had jobs outside the black market drug trade or the teacher’s unions.

I watched two bums strip a house of it’s bricks. Suppossedly they get a dime a brick. Until one pulled the wall down on top of himself. It was pretty funny.

Something everyone overlooked. it takes 2-4 months to get a contractor’s or other construction license, it takes 6-9 months to get through all the paperwork and regulation to start a legal buisness as well. The COSTS in time, money, legal fees, and untold anguish and fustration just to be able to have the chance of taking a risk to be a productive! are just some of the hurdles one has to overcome, to have a chance at being productive. What does all the paperwork and regulation serve? they are a full employment protection scam for union thugs.

Soon he’ll have to pay them to live in the city.

Sam said it all… keep on truckin

B. Sam Davis I mean

Probably have to do that just to move in the freakin place

….I can’t imagine a fixed up and empty domicile lasting overnight there or here down in CHee cago without being converted to a crack and ho house…Like rats, they infest everything they can get away with nowadays…God help us all..

Maybe Charlie Sheen might be movin in since he’s chosen the ghetto life for himself, he could be the king of crackland….;)

You wouldn’t know anything if you went to a Detroit public school, except welfare good.

Nobody wants to live in the liberal stinkhole of your creation clowns and using taxpayer money to woo them there is really ripe. Why don’t you just offer those union weasels a cut of the grift money you get to control city hall, a big-O-slice-O-gravy is just what dem boys need to live in da city.

I don’t beleive this is saying this happened over the last 2 years. Local government has been the cause over many decades and that has been the democrats during those decades. Local elections matter here a lot more.

None the less if you want to compete your not doing it with $50/hr all medical paid and retire at 55. Unions have to compromise too.

Sure more Gov’t involvement and ur friend would get out of jail and the next mayor.

Um, and redistribute to UNION SUPPORTERS.

[...] Mayor Pushing Police To Live In Detroit DETROIT (WWJ) - These brave women and men already work in the city of Detroit — and now, Mayor Dave Bing wants police [...] [...]

Take 1 cup of California
Add a teaspoon of Detroit
Add a tablespoon of New York and an ounce of Chicago
Mix thoroughly

And you have the most deadly weapon of mass destruction known. The Liberal Boma

Notwithstanding how Detriot got to this point (which is an array of complicated issues, developing over the course of several decades); I think this plan falls short of the fundamental problems of inner-city Detriot (i.e. crime, education, and employment). Sure, having 50 to 100 government workers move into vacant homes might improve the surrounding market values some, but that’s just a drop in the bucket for a City the size of Detriot. Mayor Bing should first start by not ignoring the market (there is a reason people why all these people moved out in the first place).

“Bing says funding for the project will come from neighborhood stabilization funding, HUD and partnerships with local banks and credit unions. No tax dollars will be spent.”

HUD is funded by taxpayers, you moron!

Heck no, I live in Texas where you get fired because they want to hire their crack smoking brother and tell you that is the reason they are firing you. Also we prefer illegal aliens since they are easier to exploit. We tell our bleeding heart liberal boss we hired the illegals for $20 an hour and then tell the illegals they are only getting $10 and hour and they better be quiet or they’ll be deported. I sure as heck don’t want unions down here trying to make it more difficult for us to exploit our workers.

Sounds like a typical public servant union scam. Ease up on a restriction keeping police and firefighters within the city then offering them a ridiculously low real estate investment. So what, the Detroit firefighters have to have expensive taxpayer paid GPS systems in their rigs because they don’t live in the city and can’t find their way around town to get to the fire? All city employees should live in the city they work. If you don’t like that rule then give up your job and go get another government job in another city.

I second that. Isn’t it a more humane way, though, to take private property than to openly confiscate it as the brutish commies did in Eastern Europe after WWII? Anyone refused were physically abused until “voluntarily” donated it to the “people”, or disappered overnight. Only the method is different.

Chicago and Detroit remind me of the rot, decay, and disintegration of the African nations after the European powers were forced to relinquish their colonial fiefdoms during the 1959′s in the name of DEMOCRACY. The African civil wars, starvation, and hopelessness are a vision of the Chicago and Detroit of the future.

“– they fleeced you, ignored you, stole from you, then blamed it on racism”
Correction for you: they Fleced, ignored, and stole from you, then blamed it on YOU…
Racism was just a subcategory of why you were to blame for their policies.

You know what? they wer eright! It IS your fault, as long as you continue to vote for these looters!

The decline of Detroit did not begin in the last two years. This is a generational process, and yes it was caused (CAUSED) by Democrats. Democrats, in the main, house the liberals and socialists in their party. These economic and social philosophies violate human nature – they depress the human condition (wealth, happiness, pride, virtue, etc.).

I agree that the decline continued while Republicans held the House (In 1994), and the White House, but it is LOCAL and STATE policies that are the real problem and these are the constant over the past 40 years.

Yes, jobs have gone overseas. Yes, manufacturing has declined, BUT the killer was liberal government policies and an unchecked union presence. Why is it that South Carolina is home to BMW and other manufacturing facilities and doing very well? Lack of liberal policies and union control. People still buy cars and trucks, the once mainstay of Detroit. Detroit can be reborn but to do so, lower taxes. Lower regulation. Open Detroit (and Michigan) to business. Fire about 60% of the government workers. Cancel virtually all Welfare programs. (You’re hungry, go get a job. Oh, there are no jobs here?, go to California and work the harvest. Pick fruit, do the jobs the illegal aliens are doing. You’re too good for that, ok, starve. ) Hard? Cruel? Actually not. You want to have babies when you have no money to support them, when you don’t intend to marry the father and have a family, then starve, or go get a job. END WELFARE. Fire 60% of the public employees. Cancel the teachers unions. Keep the cops, keep the firemen. Lower taxes. Detroit would come alive and most of the people on Welfare would work, earn some pride, grow up, and make something of themselves.

Say what….?? The local idiots walk in and shoot cops IN the police station…and you want them to live in the city??? HAHAHAHAHAHA………………….

The crime and dependance don’t anger me as much as the fairy tale we all put up with. That we are all the same, and Rufus and Demarius are just as likely to be engineers as Seth and William.And that all black fathers wear cardigan sweaters and invest with Merrill Lynch. At least let’s start speaking the truth. The truth being where blacks are in large numbers, chaos reigns supreme. I think they are out of their element and its not working out. God did make them as he did us and they are born good but maybe meant for different work and different locations.

THEY WANT THEM TO LIVE IN THE CITY UNTIL THEY CAN COLLECT THE 15-20-25-30 YEAR PENSION PLANS & ENABLE THEIR SPOUSES & FAMILY MEMBERS TO COLLECT ON UP TO 30 YEARS AFTER THEIR DEATHS ALONG WITH THE HEALTH & WELFARE DENTAL & 401 K PLANS.
THIS WILL SURELY FIX THE PROBLEM. THESE IDIOTS THINK ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE TAXED OR SHOT TO DEATH WILL RETURN FOR ANOTHER 50 YEARS OF GOVT RUN ENDENTURED SERVATUDE.

FRANK, DID YOU NOT VOTE FOR BARRACK HUSSEIN ?
HE WANTS US TO WORK HARDER SO HE CAN RE-DISTRIBUTE OUR INCOMES
BETTER THAN WE CAN.
P.S. YOUR CAPS LOCK IN ON.

hello. Detroit needs automobile jobs. kick the oil barons out, build electric and hydrogen fuel cell, and renew the industry without as much unchallenged socialism. get investment from South Korea, Japan, and Germany, and rebuild the industry. kick Government Motors out of town. do it better, and all the social problems get funded by commerce. just watch the accountability. there would be a boon to gobble that real estate bonanza with employment opportunity, and your infrastructure for the automotive industry is huge. build the right cars.

Lucas. They are PAID to have more kids. This was the social engineering begun in the 1960′s that has led to the decline in the black population (and in poor white populations also). A girl has a kid, she gets a check. She has two kids, she gets a bigger check. She gets married, she loses the check. These welfare policies are what CAUSED this decline.

During the depression -the 1930′s – black people had a lower out-of-wedlock birth rate than whites. Blacks have historically cherished three things: their families, education, and their churches. WEFARE policies that awarded girls, with money, when they had out-of-wedlock children began the break up of the black family. Forced bussing and integration of neighborhoods, along with fatherless homes, begin the breakup of education. Blacks for the most part have kept intact the last leg – their churches. Additionally, in 1962 President Kennedy signed an executive order allowing the unionization of federal workers (prior to this it was unlawful to have public unions, at least at the federal level.). Teachers unions stole the incentive to have great teachers.

It is racist, in the true sense, to believe that black people, because of their race alone, are in the condition they are in. But liberal, socialist, psychology based “social engineering”, was sold to the politicians, and the people (free money for all) and the result is the lawlessness we see in many big (mostly black) cities.

The cure: Fire 50% of “public sector” workers. Cancel ALL public sector unions. Make avaiilable to every parent who wants them school vouchers (real easy to compute: how much money is in the ‘education budget’ in Detroit, divide by the number of kids, and that is the magic number. A parent can send their kid to any private school and use that voucher to help pay for it. And, that money comes out of the public school pot. Oh, END ALL WELFARE. You’re hungry, go get a job. No job? Go to California and work in the fields – kick the illegal Mexicans out. You don’t want to work, well then, you starve. Hard? Cruel? Tough!

Oh, lower taxes. Lower regulation. Cancel MOST “environmental’ regulation (No, don’t allow polluters – companies can’t pour poisons into lakes and rivers; nor pollute the air, BUT about 80% of the current regulations are not needed. Bring in business. Encourage it. Cut takes. Cut public spending. Dismantle public unions. Cancel welfare. Blacks would either die off or make it.

Same thing happened in the Gaza after Israel turn it over…and then look at any other un-developed country, same thing–strip it out like a vulture. Wonder if Oberfurher or Ed from MSCCCP would live there? America, we are in deep trouble…

I’ve never heard of a city that didn’t require their emergency personnel to reside there. And the article calls that “contraversial”?

There must be a Republican somewhere in the mix who has greatly contributed to the demise of Detroit. It can be all the fault of the Democrats. Or could it be?
What is the saying? Fat, dumb and happy? Detroit is just another American city that is going down the toilet thanks to the welfare states they have become,

I suspect they live in the suburbs for a very good reason, and if they have kids why for the love of a free house would they subject their kids to the gang infested, third world education system and landfill that Detroit has become….Thanks Democrats, and thanks to the folks that keep voting for their own ruination.

why not give the offer to Eminem and Ted nugent that should fix everything

We just need Reps, not to be scared to say what you are saying.
Just think, if the Dems could blame something as big as an entire city being broke, due to Reps. policies. What would the Dems do?

Well lets get it on. The Democrats are just as idiotic as the Republicans say they are. But! The Republicans cannot see through their cult of leadership on GW Bush to the fact that he left them destroyed. Who is crazier? I suspect both would win the competition. Fact is Detroit did everything wrong like the Democrats intended. Fact is The USA set up its own citizens to pay high taxes and let businessmen go over seas to compete without taxes against them. The country is dying of the Free Trade adgenda. It is a trade war against Americans by their own government. It’s working people!

I think the solution to Detroits crime problem is hard labor for boys and men that break the law. They fear no criminal penalties now. They only fear slavery, which is what chain gang work is. It would soothe the heart of every crime victim and strike terror in the heart of every gangsta. Work them to death, see if anybody cares. Our ancestors were tougher people than we are and they had tough solutions.

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Is it so difficult to believe that no one wants to live in a city run by black socialists, even if you get to carry a gun?

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Hard to believe that anyone wants to work in a city of hate like that…to live there!?!

You know if we had just shot everybody involved in the bar that started the riots, none of this wouldve happened.

anyway, its an ideal move and as we know Ideal hardly reflects reality. you move detroit cops into the areas they serve and the people they need to protect from will try to kill them. Like angry students egging a strict teachers house. except the students are asshats in too baggy pants the teachers are cops the eggs are bullets and the houses are the families.

If you bulldoze the entire city there would be no need for cops and firefighters at all. Consider it “urban renewal.”

it is so sad to see the blacks hating on blacks

Also, unions protected workers who were nonproductive. We’ve seen Chrysler workers fired recently for drug use. That’s been going on for YEARS and no one had the nerve to confront it. Actions have consequences…

Get bigger checks.

Detroit. Love it or leave it . . . otherwise STFU!

He gets $25,000 ”tax” return/she gets $25,000 ”tax” return=$50,000. Get married, only get $25,000. (hard to believe but absolutely true here in Michigan)

while i support your plan, i’d like to see those numbers.

Encouraging new business to create employment sounds like a plan until you realize the employers would have to hire people that are union organizers and worse yet, who are products of the Detroit education system. Yeah, I’d put a business where my employees would be thugs with attitudes who could not read! Wouldn’t you?

there is a general underdevelopment occurring in wide swathes of our society, and it has nothing to do with race. any modern man is capable of being civilized, but it won’t happen on its own.

all about the family situation here, folks. the decision to ultimately destroy the family rests only with the husband and wife.

And Democrats say these sort of shenanigans aren’t Socialist. Could have fooled me.

I wouldn’t live in the cesspool called Detroit if you gave me a $1,000,000 mansion…It just needs to be blown up and forgotten…..

And your property taxes will be…. $10,000 per year. Suckas.

I live in Cincinnati, and we are starting to slide into a cess pool like Detroit. The city of Cincinnati is building a casino to bring jobs. I think detroit thought this would work also. Stupid demmocrats robbing peter to pay paul and the local government cutting the pot on the poor.

love shacks going for only 1,000 per girlfriend x 3 girlfriends = 3,000. i’m in.

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No, it calls it controversial.

I hope each of you commenting on this article has seen or will see the email circulating comparing pictures of Hiroshima with pictures of Detroit 65 years after Hiroshima was bombed to help expedite the end of World War II. One is a vibrant and thriving city that rebuilt after being destroyed by an atomic bomb during the war; the other was once a vibrant and thriving city that was destroyed by Democrat (New Society) programs and policies and now looks like a war zone. I think you may see that some policies are more destructive than war, just take a little longer to implement their destruction.

Blake you hit the nail on the head, i left Detroit years ago for Arizona, and it was the best move I ever made, Detroit is one vast slum

…”the decision to ultimately destroy the family rests only with the husband and wife.”

And the State.

No one in their right mind would move back to Detroit. This gives new meaning to ” you couldn’t pay me to live there”

Someone should dig up Abe Lincoln, point his corpse at the crumbling, worthless slums of the once proud Northern cities, and while shaking him, say, “See?, See! We Told You!, Every Last Word of What They Said Was True!!”

It’s over! Unless Black men and women CHANGE their behavior, black children will LOSE in the never ending spiral into destitution.

Blacks were better off in the fifties and earlier when they believed in families. Until we STOP paying women to have children out of wedlock this will continue. Blacks seem to want to stay on the old Democrat Plantation and nibble on the government cheese and take drugs.

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So lets dissect this story—>

Democrats offer hand outs Entitlements to stupid people.
Stupid people take entitlements
Democrats dumb down schools to get more stupid people to vote for them
Idiot voters vote for idiot politicians
Politicians redistribute the wealth and destroy all that is good and decent
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Don’t forget about California… they too were run by Democrats into the ground.
Most of the Republican states are not near as bad off. To bad they are jumping ship and heading to the nearest neighborhood near you and will keep voting for freebies. Rolling my eyes.

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In all honesty, one has to admit, the most worthless, ignorant, violent, disgusting, ruthless and wholey subsidized cultures on earth is the North American City Ape/Human Hybrid. The only thing forced diversity has done is spread it and has damaged this country’s strength beyond repair. We all spawn from the same life force, so it is in every last living being’s best interest to prevent further spread. Inside you know this is true. A system where the dumbest and most worthless are allowed to breed the fastest is a system doomed for collapse into mayhem, murder and perpetual barbarism. We could go through centuries of tests to prove it, or we could look at every society on earth presently and in the past, evaluate them and make the obvious conclusion based on scientific fact, without the cloud of politcal correctness.

Yes, HUD is a government agency. HUD stands for Agency for Housing and Urban Development. Oh, starvation will be so hard!

One only needs to view piictures of hiroshima after the atom bomb hit, and then view hiroshima now (vibrant city), then view detroit before WWII, and then view Detroit now…looks like an atom bomb hit Detroit.

I am from the Detroit area and want to make people aware of a little trick in the residency statistics. If you look at a Detroit city map, there is a tiny finger of the city that pokes into the city of Dearborn, which is a white/Muslim enclave. Tons of Detroit cops and firefighters live there, which technically makes them a city resident, yet the Western border is almost a mile away.

Nah, you’ll have to pay them! Detroit: Another shining example of Workers’ Paradise liberalism. Keep electing ‘em so you’ll get even better housing “deals.” LOL.

Rebuilding Detroit….50 at a time…shouldn’t take no time at all…

Mr. Jujubar think Ms. P is full of herself.

Start naming successful black countries/cultures.

I thought it is the US Chamber of Commerce that is pushing to move all of our manufacturing jobs overseas. From my recollection with the elections at the end of 2010 – they gave unknown amounts of $$ to the Republicans….

Cut taxes to the overly rich business owners, and throw out all the retired public workers pensions so they have no money to pay for anything and live in cardboard boxes while eating dog food and run up medicaid when they visit the ER for every little sniffle.

Sounds like a Republican Utopia to me.

I DEMAND AN END TO ALL THE COMMON SENSE, FACTS, AND TRUTHS PUT FORTH BY ALL OF YOU RACIST HATERS ON THIS COMMENT PAGE!!!!!
I WON’T STAND FOR ANYTHING THAT GETS IN THE WAY OF MY LIBERAL IDEOLOGY!!!!!!!!!!!

Please don’t bulldoze the place we don’t want the rats jumping ship and infesting good red states , the real America. Its been over for years Detroit and its not coming back, so get over it. Put a fence around the whole place and keep filth there please. And the Liberal leaders of Motor City that created democrat heaven expect people to go visit the place unarmed. Vote demo”rat” and ruin America suckas… HAHAHA!

Why would they move into Detroit? They’re in a place where their kids are safe. btw, are there any decent houses IN the city?

I’m as conservative as they come, but you guys from Drudge (where I found this article) are missing the point. The solution to saving Detroit comes from stuff like this. You need to have incentive to move there. Detroit doesn’t have much to offer in tax breaks, that has to come from the state. This is the best next thing, take the money that the Democratic President is willing to give to the city and incentivize people with jobs and are probably good citizens to move to the city. Its smart.

Yeah, like Texas’ 31 billion dollar deficit?

Why bother trying to ‘revitalize Detroit’ ? The only solution is to raze the entire city, and then let developers reclaim the land at the pace that it will actually be used.

The suburbs of Detroit are well-functioning, pleasant places to live. But Detroit itself is a decayed, crumbling, hollowed-out war zone. The resulting blight pushes sane people out, rather than inviting them in.

No amount of tax dollars or subsidy can save Detroit from itself.

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I would think the last thing police/fire personnel would want to do would be to live in the same area they work in. Where would the break and peace of mind away from work and quality time with family be then? nowhere. The fact they would be rewarded by paying significantly less money for homes is like dangling a carrot for a rabbit to a trap. The homeowners throughout that city need to be scrutinized and the rules of law applied to clean up the neighborhoods. If you don’t do that first, then you are placing police/fire and their families in harm’s way.

The city needs to look at the cause and effect of the current situation and look in the mirror. If you were the cause then you need to step away and out of the picture to be replaced, because to do anything else is perpetuating a cycle of stupidity.

Detroit is a welfare city where idle hands/time became the devils workshop. This happens in every city that fester welfare recipients, Detroit is no different. You have babies having babies with recipient funds they spend on themselves and not the child, where’s the real parent/adult role model?

Before the city council and mayor start asking for fire/police to move into those infested crime rotten areas, they need to lead by example and start their own packing of bags to be their neighbor.

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Yes, it’s easier to build on a clean slate than it is to put lipstick on a turd.

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Like putting lipstick on a pig!
Its still a pig!

Someone…anyone…please find me a ‘long term’ politically conservative controlled city that has a problem like this please…. I can tell you this from my personal experience. I moved from Los Angeles County to a city on the outskirts when things in LA were being overrun and controlled then and now by the Democratic liberal party.

At the time I was a born and raised as a Democrat and didn’t understand much of anything…basically, I was spoon fed by the media and, as my parents and family, we believed in the Democratic Party to take care of the social injustices and community problems, which they did. We believed in social justice, good stuff and all. However, it was done in the extreme. But when our community became over rotten with the good social justices and community redevelopment help, our neighborhood was infested with way too many of the lazy, hand to mouth feeding of government checks and cheese. I couldn’t move fast enough out of there. I moved further south to a quiet relaxed environment with not many people, didn’t even think about whether it was republican or democratically controlled.

As the years past, I saw an immediate influx of the same type of people who had infested L.A now moving in our community in nearby HUD mandated section 8 housing and such. With this change came the high crime and disgusting inconsiderate neighbors in and around the community and shopping centers. Again, I got fed up but this time I decided to take an active interest in politics and discovered those who were representing my interests as a conservative democrat were not doing their job. But it was a lost cause because those in office didn’t have the desire to fight the good fight so long as there was government money to be had. I moved because my community became a lost cause. I switched parties when I saw the Democratic Party not fighting for my interests. I looked to move to a conservative controlled community (at least at this time). Its alot cleaner and more individuals remain focus and take part in their community politics so their city stays clean and not allowed to be turned into a gang and crime infested community. My friends tell me this kind of neighborhood also exists in a democratic controlled city, I asked them to tell me where and I haven’t heard back from them…so I’ll offer it out to anyone out there?

What is the average age in Detroit? I believe there is a saying that goes something like this…. “If you’re under 20 and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you’re over 25 and not a conservative, you have no brain.”

Once considered the Paris of the West, Detroit is now the ghetto of the west. Unions killed the automobile industry and the corrupt democrat party buried it.

Why does America have to keep bailing out liberals? Their ideas always fail and always end up costing tax payers in the end. For more proof just look at the guy occupying the position of president and his policies…

It’s a noble idea. Unfortunately, the common denominator in all of this is THE PEOPLE.

What has free housing done to the projects? The silver lining is that the city won’t have to pay to tear these houses down, the new tenants will do it for them.

and your point being??? ‘white/muslim enclave’ is the implication that ‘tons of detroit cops and firefighter live there’ are racists. Would you also state that tons of blacks who live in predominantly black neighborhoods are also black/muslim racists?

You state the obvious. And any scientific experiment can be manipulated and extrapolated to fit into any conclusion you would want the reader/viewer to believe. This type of housing/city environment crosses all paths of nationalities/races and/or political boundaries.

First, the entitlement mentality must be changed at the politcal level where you can only obtain assistance if you are a prenant single parent. We, as a society, must encourage and focus on helping those who support the family unitiy. Only in this manner, should the entitlement be offered. You claim black men and women (this actually is not related to blacks alone) must change their behavior, but in order to do that they must have the forced incentive.

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“we need to get rid of unions so we can lower the wages to Chinese wages. ”

Eric, U.S. union workers have a lower average IQ and much lazier work ethic than a Chinese worker. I would hope the U.S. union guy to get paid much less than a Chinese factory worker.

What if anything is anyone from this blog doing to better their City? You complain, with no real action. Fix it, or be silent.

What a wonderful retirement bonus. A lot of these folks will gladly accept a free piece of Real Estate and then promptly rent the property. It’s pure gravy, compliments of the entire USA. Stupid is as stupid does….and we “the people” are STUPID if we bail out failing institutions like states which can’t say no to the next big spending idea.

Sorry, but the North American Pavement Ape has destroyed Detroit. There is no going back.

You really are a fool aren’t you??? Democrats have been the ruling party of Detroit for 50 years and you blame Republicans????? I’m glad I’m a registered Independent, who doesn’t have to blindly follow one party or the other.

Look up “gulag.”

HUD is a Federal agency, so tax dollars will be used. Detroit is a total loss. A ghetto where unions and minorities destroyed everything around them. This plan will fail. These $1000 homes, no doubt are in the worst part of town and no one will want to live their. Let free market rules apply. City is mismanaged by corruption and bad business practices = city is a loss and should be abandoned by the tax payer. If private business want to come back and restore civility, more power to them. For that to happen, the unions and similar ilk will have to go.

Democrat politicians didn’t sire all those out-of-wedlock babies nor are they making the streets unsafe. For any improvement to occur, a sea change is needed in the personal values of Detroit residents.

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Are you saying that the Rust Belt in the North is the consequence of people with black skin being free from slavery? If so, yeah, that’s just ignorant racism.

The fall of Detroit and other Rust Belt cities is the result of (1) the globalization of manufacturing industries, (2) federal housing policies that subsidized suburban, single family home development at a rapid pace, thus weakening the tax pace of urban centers, (3) federal transportation policies that literally sealed off neighborhoods and complicated between the cities and suburbs, and (4) and state incentive programs that favored commercial and corporate investment in the suburbs instead of traditional city centers.

The reason that the majority of urban centers are occupied by poor, racial minorities is because of (1) segregation policy that marginalized minorities, (2) redlining in federal housing programs and private bank mortgage practices which blocked off entire neighborhoods (only black neighborhoods) from being eligible to receive mortgages (and thus become homeowners), and (3) the economic development policies that favored job growth in the suburbs, and transportation policies that limited access to these new jobs to car owners while literally sealing off the already marginalized, minority neighborhoods from access to good jobs and education opportunities.

Your suggestion that the blight of inner-city black communities is inherently a fault of those who are black is just stupid, ignorant, racist, and…of course, wrong.

NAFTA was signed by George W. Turn off Glen Beck …and oxtcotin Rush…and learn before your mouth moves

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A Super Bowl commercial and renovated homes in Detroit is all that is needed. I’m selling my home, resigning from my job, and kissing the warm winter weather goodbye. Detroit, here I come!!!

You said it perfectly!!!!

[...] These brave women and men already work in the city of Detroit — and now, Mayor Dave Bing wants police officers to live in the city as well.Bing has been vocal about his desire to get police officers to move back into the city, and now he’s taking action by announcing a new incentive plan to get them to live where they work.Currently, 53 percent of Detroit Police officers commute to work from the suburbs, and Bing says the number is even higher for firefighters.As part of a pilot program called “Project 14? Detroit cops and firefighters who live in the suburbs will be offered renovated homes in the city for as little as $1,000.Mayor Bing said this is one step in a plan to revitalize Detroit.“Project 14 is one approach that my administration is deploying to take two challenges facing Detroit — public safety and vacant homes — and turn them into an opportunity for neighborhood revitalization,” Mayor Bing said.“There are steps that we can and must take today to improve the quality of life for our citizens. That’s why I am announcing Project 14 — an initiative designed to encourage Detroit Police officers to live in the communities in which they serve,” Bing said.More Here.. [...]

[...] CBS Detroit reports that the initiative, dubbed Project 14, could fill some vacant homes and provide a break to safety workers, more than half of which live in the suburbs. [...]

[...] and turn them into an opportunity for neighborhood revitalization,” Mayor Bing said according to CBS Detroit. “There are steps that we can and must take today to improve the quality of life for our [...]

I believe we have ignored the real issue here. What is the cause of the destruction of Detroit? We can blame the democrats, the unions,the blacks,welfare,affirmative action, greed and all other things associated with corrupt politicians but in my humble opinion the root cause is the ruination of our youth caused by drugs.

I grew up in a small town in South Florida in the 50′s and 60′s we had very little crime. We had no drugs, not even pot. Most of you won’t believe me when I tell you we could go to bed at night without locking the doors.

We have had a steady but persistent moral decaying of our country as the drug trade became more widespread. That same town I grew up in now has bars on the windows,and yes they do lock their doors.

I predict that unless we humble ourselves and ask God to remove this blight from our country we will make Mexico seem tame.

Pray for our leaders, Democrats and Republicans to have the courage to make and enforce laws that will rid us of this most horrible blight on our country

Yeah, and you will continue to have the “third world illegal alien ghetto paradise” by voting for Rahm Emmanuel, another Democrat Socialist. Why don’t you guys ever learn?

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I am from Europ and can’t understand the system of Detroit. Here you become the price of the house and then you seach the money and deside what you can pay every month and for how long. Here you may pay 1.000 dollar… For how long? The principal thing is the total captital you need for living in town. Not what you had to pay every month. In Detroit you live from day to day without a view on the future. That is bad. Sorry for my comment. But major or not it is not correct to make such a mentality.

Why not permit officers and firefighters who have not moved from the city an opportunity to benefit from this program. Why are suburbinites always given the gravy while the city residents are given the shaft?

Wow, I cannot believe what I am reading here. Not the article, but the comments. Most of you people are just ignorant, disgusting, racist, and illiterate. You talk about the people of Detroit being stupid? I think I have seen two posts on here that don’t have major spelling or grammatical errors. Most of you have probably never even been to Detroit, but because it’s mostly black, and mostly poor, you just have to come on here and comment about it. YOU are what’s wrong with America. And by the way, THE MAJORITY OF LARGE CITIES IN THIS COUNTRY ARE DEMOCRATIC! The nicest, and most expensive cities in this country to live in are Boston and San Francisco, according to real estate values, and they are both VERY, VERY BLUE, so Detroit’s state has NOTHING to do with Democrats, and everything to do with the outsourcing of American jobs to countries that have people that will work for $2 a day. THAT is what happened to Detroit. You people disgust me, and I would really like to see you go to a street corner, any street corner that you want in Detroit, or any large city for that matter, and start ranting the way that you are on here. But you won’t, because you are all cowards that have to hide behind your locked doors in your suburban or rural homes. You wouldn’t dare say these things out in public, because someone would smash your faces in! You people disgust me, and if you want to know what’s wrong with America, look in the mirror!

thank god people die!

thank god people have an end!

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Actually about 90% of all large cities are democratic majorities. can you name any city of over 500,000 people that is republican? New York City, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Indianapolis, Columbus,Boston, New Orleans, Nashville, all democratic cities, some of them very nice cities.

[...] 14 – which is police code for “return to normal operations” – was launched in February. The program allows officers to buy a home with a $1000 down payment. They would also have to [...]

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