Yeah, the 2nd picture is pure apples to oranges propoganda, but I think the point is valid. Though Hiro may be not super nice, I bet it's a lot safer than Detroit.
I was wondering about that structure. It looks like a church! What was it?
Detroit provides a glimpse of the future for a vast swath of America. This is what happens when liberalism and progressivsim are allowed to run the government for a long time. Mark Steyn did an excellent article on the topic: "By the time Detroit declared bankruptcy, Americans were so inured to the throbbing dirge of Motown’s Greatest Hits — 40 percent of its streetlamps don’t work; 210 of its 317 public parks have been permanently closed; it takes an hour for police to respond to a 9-1-1 call; only a third of its ambulances are driveable; one-third of the city has been abandoned; the local realtor offers houses on sale for a buck and still finds no takers; etc., etc. — Americans were so inured that the formal confirmation of a great city’s downfall was greeted with little more than a fatalistic shrug." "But it shouldn’t be. To achieve this level of devastation, you usually have to be invaded by a foreign power." [...] "After the Battle of Saratoga, Adam Smith famously told a friend despondent that the revolting colonials were going to be the ruin of Britain, “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation” — and in a great city, too. If your inheritance includes the fruits of visionaries like Henry Ford, Walter Chrysler, and the Dodge brothers, you can coast for a long time, and then decline incrementally, and then less incrementally, and then catastrophically, until what’s left is, as the city’s bankruptcy petition puts it, “structurally unsound and in danger of collapse.” There is a great deal of ruin in advanced societies, but even in Detroit it took only six decades."
“'Structurally unsound and in danger of collapse”: Hold that thought. Like Detroit, America has unfunded liabilities, to the tune of $220 trillion, according to the economist Laurence Kotlikoff. Like Detroit, it’s cosseting the government class and expanding the dependency class, to the point where its bipartisan “immigration reform” actively recruits 50–60 million low-skilled chain migrants. Like Detroit, America’s governing institutions are increasingly the corrupt enforcers of a one-party state — the IRS and Eric Holder’s amusingly misnamed Department of Justice being only the most obvious examples. Like Detroit, America is bifurcating into the class of “community organizers” and the unfortunate denizens of the communities so organized." http://nationalreview.com/article/353959/downfall-detroit-mark-steyn
I understand where your post is coming from. But the Detroit picture could have been taken from a different angle.
ReplyDeleteHiroshima did not seem that great when I was there.
Another thing, I stood where that large building is on the bottom of the Hiroshima picture.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the 2nd picture is pure apples to oranges propoganda, but I think the point is valid.
ReplyDeleteThough Hiro may be not super nice, I bet it's a lot safer than Detroit.
I was wondering about that structure. It looks like a church! What was it?
Detroit provides a glimpse of the future for a vast swath of America. This is what happens when liberalism and progressivsim are allowed to run the government for a long time. Mark Steyn did an excellent article on the topic:
ReplyDelete"By the time Detroit declared bankruptcy, Americans were so inured to the throbbing dirge of Motown’s Greatest Hits — 40 percent of its streetlamps don’t work; 210 of its 317 public parks have been permanently closed; it takes an hour for police to respond to a 9-1-1 call; only a third of its ambulances are driveable; one-third of the city has been abandoned; the local realtor offers houses on sale for a buck and still finds no takers; etc., etc. — Americans were so inured that the formal confirmation of a great city’s downfall was greeted with little more than a fatalistic shrug."
"But it shouldn’t be. To achieve this level of devastation, you usually have to be invaded by a foreign power." [...]
"After the Battle of Saratoga, Adam Smith famously told a friend despondent that the revolting colonials were going to be the ruin of Britain, “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation” — and in a great city, too. If your inheritance includes the fruits of visionaries like Henry Ford, Walter Chrysler, and the Dodge brothers, you can coast for a long time, and then decline incrementally, and then less incrementally, and then catastrophically, until what’s left is, as the city’s bankruptcy petition puts it, “structurally unsound and in danger of collapse.” There is a great deal of ruin in advanced societies, but even in Detroit it took only six decades."
“'Structurally unsound and in danger of collapse”: Hold that thought. Like Detroit, America has unfunded liabilities, to the tune of $220 trillion, according to the economist Laurence Kotlikoff. Like Detroit, it’s cosseting the government class and expanding the dependency class, to the point where its bipartisan “immigration reform” actively recruits 50–60 million low-skilled chain migrants. Like Detroit, America’s governing institutions are increasingly the corrupt enforcers of a one-party state — the IRS and Eric Holder’s amusingly misnamed Department of Justice being only the most obvious examples. Like Detroit, America is bifurcating into the class of “community organizers” and the unfortunate denizens of the communities so organized." http://nationalreview.com/article/353959/downfall-detroit-mark-steyn