What a back-handed compliment

Post #388,201 by drook 4/4/14 1:09:39 PM Reply	What a back-handed compliment ... but there are a number of safe, livable neighborhoods. Well in that case, sign me up. :-/ -- Drew
Post #388,205 by malraux 4/4/14 3:25:50 PM Reply	Didn't say there wasn't a lot of work to be done I think the best thing might be to spin off the remote pieces as separate municipalities and contract the city to its essentials. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #388,218 by pwhysall 4/5/14 9:54:04 AM Reply	What do you think would be the next step? Say we do that - Detroit is now much smaller, and it's surrounded by a number of satellite municipalities. Trouble is, these new municipalities have got nuffink. No jobs, but that's OK, because there's nearly no people, too. What do?
Post #388,221 by malraux 4/5/14 11:39:49 AM Reply	Mass transit There's no way to get in and out of the city via light rail, a necessity that every other major city has. Fix that and more people will be willing to work and live downtown. After that it's a slow climb back up, but without the debilitating blight sapping money and will. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #388,222 by malraux 4/5/14 11:39:54 AM Reply	Mass transit There's no way to get in and out of the city via light rail, a necessity that every other major city has. Fix that and more people will be willing to work and live downtown. After that it's a slow climb back up, but without the debilitating blight sapping money and will. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #388,230 by Ashton 4/5/14 4:53:59 PM Reply	Concur.. it just makes Sense. But would require a rarity-- an ability to look beyond the next local-$$-crisis/think beyond the Murican Standard of next-quarter's numbers ie both prescience and -yes- faith in the decision and in its Goodness (as well as in its Correctness.) 'We' don't do much of that even sorta-well and lots of such decisions, simply appallingly. I wot. (I blame Ronnie for the intentional/Ideologue-bias--here, too.) It's also the cemented-in-POV mindset of current Lunatics-in-ascension. :-/

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