geoff wrote: > It sounds like an absolute disaster! Is anyone trying to actually fix up the > mess?
Hi Geoff, I left in 1981, it was heading down then. The colored, not to say "black racist", politicians swore that if only *they* were elected everything would be fine. They were elected, and then they couldn't resist a little self dealing and patronage. First you knew, that was all they were doing - self dealing and patronage, while Detroit burned, literally. The worst was Kwame Kilpatrick who was sent to prison. There are a *lot* of kids in Detroit who don't have any male role models. The mothers probably do tell the kids what to do - and not do, but at a certain age a boy will only listen to a man. The boys got to burning down vacant houses for laughs, it became *the* fad. The homeless also probably torched a few by accident by nodding off in the warmth of an unsafe fire and strong drink or worse. You would be driving down the street and the houses would be blazing away right beside the road. Take the fire department an hour to get there because there were so many fires. In an hour the house was beyond repair. Last I heard they were considering converting large areas to agriculture, then withdrawing most city services from the agriculturally designated areas. Sad end to what was once home sweet home to millions of middle class working families. > I was there this summer visiting my sister. Our house is fine, but many > have been burned down. My niece married a Muslim and her younger sister > is dating one. They claim they *won't* behead us. > > The streets look like South Africa, where the land hasn't been cleared. > Acres and acres of nothing and then an ancient Catholic Church. More > acres and acres of nothing and then another ancient Catholic Church, and > on and on. The surviving churches are all Catholic - Archdiocese keeps > some of them in repair, others have been sold or torn down. Schools, > though, are in ruins or are actually torn down. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
