Some are working on it for good and some are working on it for bad and some are not working and some are just barely working, and some are retired (but may or may not be in one of the previous categories). The sum is what you see and hear while visiting or on the news.
If one is older and familiar with the historical perspectives this place has always been on a rockier road of ups and downs. The long term things which have sorted out to other places are much less frequent here, except for the government sector. There are many repetitious and bureaucratic levels of government at all levels as well as vertically.
Perhaps some types of integration, streamlining and efficiency would serve all better.
When you live in other states you tend to think of most everyone here having a highly paid job related to the automotive industry directly or indirectly.
Actually, manufacturing throughout the Entire Midwest has been in decline, from steel itself, through autos to many other things. Today the automotive sector accounts for only a small percentage of employment. Jobs in the ancillary industries have been hit extremely hard, many of these jobs were never well paying, many more have always been minimum wage, and budgets at these firms have all been stressed by rising costs, including benefits and medical coverage, as well as the economic turn down. There have been business closeouts and home foreclosures galore.
Many are hanging in through the worst of it and have not turned to crime. Others have. Some are going nuts or losing their minds.
The educational system is in shards. It has been consistently receiving more and more money for doing less and less. Corruptions have abounded, also in city governance.
In the face of the results, budgets are tightening, wants and needs are multiplying. The police at all levels are receiving cutbacks yet are expected to fight more crime.
Everyone is having a hard time.
You could help get the ball rolling again by buying Michigan goods of whatever kind.
We have to start buying our own products wherever possible. Your scissors are all lousy? There was probably a factory here which made NICE scissors. It is gone.
So, see if you can buy American. We can all help one another that way. If you cannot buy, perhaps you can sell American products abroad. Boats? Tractors? Farm Produce? Processed potatoes or whatever.
Some are trying to get green energy enterprises going. Change is happening slowly. A new battery plant, some new wind energy installations.
Even the utilities are encouraging efficiency and that may help people to afford their energy bills as time rolls on.
Change happens more rapidly if everyone does their part or cooperates with and helps new enterprises and more efficient government.
Just for today, do your work with integrity and quality.
Keep costs down, especially in government. There is no endless source for you any longer.
Detroit is not the only place which needs steady improvement. That is true in California and Nevada, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and many other places.
Try not adding to the problems. Try helping where you can. Look for opportunities, however small.
If everyone is helping it can only become very prosperous for all, and the sooner the better.
if you say most of the houses are nice, then you dont know sh!t about detroit. they are run down and there are a few select places that have mansions that are real nice but for the most part, it sucks. downtown is nice and i go there all the time in the summer. but yes, it is because of the blacks. who did the riots? the blacks. i have been working in detroit now for 14 years. i see what the people do that live in these ghettos. they dont care, all they care about is having flashy clothes and 20's on them old caprice cars. Im not racist but most blacks are ignorant and out of control. They use there own streets for throwing out garbage. pleasant street between fort and jefferson is a good dumping ground for them. i could keep going on about this but im not!
It's the fact that much of the remaining population has that entitlement mentality; that is, the notion that the world owes them a living. The city's political leadership, especially since 1973, has been fomenting this sentiment. Maybe Mayor Bing can put an end to it, but there are still a bunch of useless nitwits in the City Council.
rather plenty all human beings has a legal checklist in that city LOL so it is not spectacular me that a politicians are ex-felons too. Wasn't Rod Blagorevich from Chicago too ? The moron who tried to sell Obama's Senate seat ? lmao
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Some are working on it for good and some are working on it for bad and some are not working and some are just barely working, and some are retired (but may or may not be in one of the previous categories). The sum is what you see and hear while visiting or on the news.
If one is older and familiar with the historical perspectives this place has always been on a rockier road of ups and downs. The long term things which have sorted out to other places are much less frequent here, except for the government sector. There are many repetitious and bureaucratic levels of government at all levels as well as vertically.
Perhaps some types of integration, streamlining and efficiency would serve all better.
When you live in other states you tend to think of most everyone here having a highly paid job related to the automotive industry directly or indirectly.
Actually, manufacturing throughout the Entire Midwest has been in decline, from steel itself, through autos to many other things. Today the automotive sector accounts for only a small percentage of employment. Jobs in the ancillary industries have been hit extremely hard, many of these jobs were never well paying, many more have always been minimum wage, and budgets at these firms have all been stressed by rising costs, including benefits and medical coverage, as well as the economic turn down. There have been business closeouts and home foreclosures galore.
Many are hanging in through the worst of it and have not turned to crime. Others have. Some are going nuts or losing their minds.
The educational system is in shards. It has been consistently receiving more and more money for doing less and less. Corruptions have abounded, also in city governance.
In the face of the results, budgets are tightening, wants and needs are multiplying. The police at all levels are receiving cutbacks yet are expected to fight more crime.
Everyone is having a hard time.
You could help get the ball rolling again by buying Michigan goods of whatever kind.
We have to start buying our own products wherever possible. Your scissors are all lousy? There was probably a factory here which made NICE scissors. It is gone.
So, see if you can buy American. We can all help one another that way. If you cannot buy, perhaps you can sell American products abroad. Boats? Tractors? Farm Produce? Processed potatoes or whatever.
Some are trying to get green energy enterprises going. Change is happening slowly. A new battery plant, some new wind energy installations.
Even the utilities are encouraging efficiency and that may help people to afford their energy bills as time rolls on.
Change happens more rapidly if everyone does their part or cooperates with and helps new enterprises and more efficient government.
Just for today, do your work with integrity and quality.
Keep costs down, especially in government. There is no endless source for you any longer.
Detroit is not the only place which needs steady improvement. That is true in California and Nevada, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and many other places.
Try not adding to the problems. Try helping where you can. Look for opportunities, however small.
If everyone is helping it can only become very prosperous for all, and the sooner the better.
if you say most of the houses are nice, then you dont know sh!t about detroit. they are run down and there are a few select places that have mansions that are real nice but for the most part, it sucks. downtown is nice and i go there all the time in the summer. but yes, it is because of the blacks. who did the riots? the blacks. i have been working in detroit now for 14 years. i see what the people do that live in these ghettos. they dont care, all they care about is having flashy clothes and 20's on them old caprice cars. Im not racist but most blacks are ignorant and out of control. They use there own streets for throwing out garbage. pleasant street between fort and jefferson is a good dumping ground for them. i could keep going on about this but im not!
It's the fact that much of the remaining population has that entitlement mentality; that is, the notion that the world owes them a living. The city's political leadership, especially since 1973, has been fomenting this sentiment. Maybe Mayor Bing can put an end to it, but there are still a bunch of useless nitwits in the City Council.
They never learn. First it's Coleman Young, then Kwame.
If they stick with Dave Bing or someone like Freeman Hendrix
they will turn it around eventually
Also, detroit needs some new industries
rather plenty all human beings has a legal checklist in that city LOL so it is not spectacular me that a politicians are ex-felons too. Wasn't Rod Blagorevich from Chicago too ? The moron who tried to sell Obama's Senate seat ? lmao
It is very poor, as most of the major industry has left town.
i do not agree, there are some great places in Detroit & that is racism
F**K YOU... DETROIT IS AMAZING !!!
also u r soooo racist !!!
It's the asshole of michigan.