Added: Jun 9, 2008
From: journeymanpictures
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June 2008Detroit was once the symbol of America's industrial power; the birthplace of Ford, the assembly line and the home of GM. But now it feels more like a ghost town littered with abandoned buildings.In 1913 Detroit was booming but when the Great Depression hit, this abruptly ended. Between 2006 and 2008 four of GM's plants in Michigan closed, and more than 15,000 are homeless in the city. "There's no work in Michigan... all you see is vacant houses" explains one homeless resident. As industries move to areas with cheaper labour, former assembly line workers and buildings are left useless.
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Xortek2can Says:
Dec 18, 2008 - hahaha is this is u.s.a or afganistan i think if he go afghanistan is be better life iam sure 100% hahahahaha amricans hahahaha shitttttttttttttttt
xekul Says:
Dec 19, 2008 - why dont you go back to afghanistan you kurd piece of shit.
tkodawg9 Says:
Dec 19, 2008 - NIGTROIT
yacetube Says:
Dec 20, 2008 - in france we re-use old buildings when old and pretty, because of their great historic role, symbol ...and tourism attraction when possible!Detroit could invest of Historical Tourism, about CAR history! capital place of CARS, of one the widest sprea and more apreciated thing of history: CARS!
yacetube Says:
Dec 20, 2008 - sorry, "spread"
negkreyol21 Says:
Dec 20, 2008 - detroit is messed up my 1st time being there i was shocked 2 see a US city boulf be in such a shape ive been in front of tiger stadium looking the streets and houses looked abandon imma stick to florida its fucked up 2 but way better than detroit
trakkaton Says:
Dec 21, 2008 - Stupidity displayed.Nothing is more uselaees than building cars, big buildings, and nothing is more crazy than to finance it all with financial scams (debt, petrod0llar and derivatives).
trakkaton Says:
Dec 21, 2008 - Haha, USans blaming the Unions for their demise - you really are totally crazy!
hegemonies Says:
Dec 21, 2008 - the problem in detroit is racism. The state is filled with the KKK that is boycotting, and stealing federal dollars desiginated for Detroit the whites on the state level say we are not giving this money to the niggers so you have a city ruined
hegemonies Says:
Dec 21, 2008 - detroit does not even have a rail system becaue when the federal government gave us 500 million the kkk in lansing state capital kept the money and had their cronies start a new bus system
hegemonies Says:
Dec 21, 2008 - Detroit is very racist. The state government took millons of dollars from the black schools and gave it to the whites. Then they started a lottery to ad to school monies. They took more moneies from the tax based now lottery earnings are down so there are not even enough schools the whites took all the money to educate our kids
hegemonies Says:
Dec 21, 2008 - The unioins fucked up the auto industry. Big 3 workers made to much money and worked those jobs till they were 100 how the hell can you work in a factory till 100.
freddy77777 Says:
Dec 21, 2008 - You stupid Americans want all this capitalism,now have it
ngeorge62 Says:
Dec 23, 2008 - to the bank ceo's what the fuck gives you the right to party with the money the goverment gave.you. id love to meet any of you old coots face to face . none of your body gaurds around
experimentsingeekdom Says:
Dec 25, 2008 - The commentator says things are not so bad because there "the homeless have food delivered by humanitarian organizations"...what the f..??? And I'm confused - is this Iraq or USA?
experimentsingeekdom Says:
Dec 25, 2008 - Sorry, what has been going on the US past few decades is not capitalism at all...its more akin to corporatism or fascism. Capitalism died long ago.
experimentsingeekdom Says:
Dec 25, 2008 - The problem is not with Americans not working hard, but with their govt. in collusion with financiers STEALING from them.
TzarNicolasII Says:
Dec 26, 2008 - Please stop Arguing with each other, My friends we need to stick together and bring down the Corperate greed in Europe and MOSTLY America. This is what they want. You two to be not united so you wont get together and over throw them. Trust me there will be Revolution in America soon. Please be united.
TzarNicolasII Says:
Dec 26, 2008 - Thats a Lie Americans are too Arrogent and Pompuos. Americans dont think because the Corerate media jamms shit into there heads brainwashing them.
godozo Says:
Dec 26, 2008 - The sad thing is that thousands of Americans are cheering the decline of Detroit and are actually mourning the fact that the Automobile Industry in the USA had been subsidized for a few months as they try to save themselves. I've dealt with some of these people themselves, there's many more who agree with them but don't state it out loud.And we wonder why Canada and Europe are cleaning our clocks (never mind Vietnam or Iraq).
BigPreme74 Says:
Dec 26, 2008 - @ TzarNicolasIIGreat post but unless shit gets sooooo bad that everyone is living like shit will things change. It will take people reaching 99% dissatisfaction before things change. With that though, you have to hope the change is a positive one and not a perverted back lash that could lead us straight to hell.
Skeptic121 Says:
Dec 27, 2008 - I have never been to Detroit but I can guess which city functions still work perfectly. #1. Tax enforcement #2. Union enforcement#3. Code enforcement #4. Victim disarmament (aka law enforcement)
MrAkA22 Says:
Jan 6, 2009 - america a new third world country
kldboyer Says:
Jan 8, 2009 - Nothing Gold Can Stay.
rmanrod Says:
Dec 18, 2008 - see fellow americans? the town could be Anywhere,USA if we don't work harder. It's not only the unions but also the greed of executives that is killing the mfg industry. We have to wake up and regain our top spot as industrial nation.