Detroit’s Unemployment Rate Is Nearly 50%

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
I would be the first to say that the US needs to implement a sweeping Industrial Policy, similar to the one used during and after WWII. That Policy, however, does not include unions nor does it include organized labor, both of which are pernicious and destructive forces when it comes to US competitiveness. Use of Germany is a red herring, in that the US does not enjoy that sort of homogeneity, nor do we have a center-left socialized labor force that harbors under a government subsidized and supported system (and if you think I’m wrong, check out Germany’s unfunded pension(s) program(s)).[/quote]
I disagree that unions necessarily undermine competitiveness.
I think it would be more accurate to say that short-sighted unions perform poorly at representing the long-term needs of their members.
Saying that unions are anti-competitive is like saying regulation is anti-competitive.
I seem to remember a giant phone company when I was a kid whose regulation led to a much more diverse and innovative telecommunications environment.
I think it would also be fair to say that companies that get too large (and that includes unions) are anticompetitive.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
Yes.

We want to make all US cities look like Detroit.

Last time I checked Detroit’s economic history is not really about communism (unless by communism you mean big capitalist corporations).

Paris, London, Oslo and Beijing are socialist cities.

Do those seem like cesspools to you?[/quote]

No, YOU don’t WANT the cities to look that way. You’re just one of the useful idiots who votes for economic slavery. That other cities have not reached Detroit’s economic meltdown yet, is not an argument. If wealth is portable, it will flee from economic persecution. Hell, you don’t even know the difference between communism & socialism. Go look up GOSPlan, then see if you can connect at least two dots.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
Yes.

We want to make all US cities look like Detroit.

Last time I checked Detroit’s economic history is not really about communism (unless by communism you mean big capitalist corporations).

Paris, London, Oslo and Beijing are socialist cities.

Do those seem like cesspools to you?[/quote]

No, YOU don’t WANT the cities to look that way. You’re just one of the useful idiots who votes for economic slavery. That other cities have not reached Detroit’s economic meltdown yet, is not an argument. If wealth is portable, it will flee from economic persecution. Hell, you don’t even know the difference between communism & socialism. Go look up GOSPlan, then see if you can connect at least two dots.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
Yes.

We want to make all US cities look like Detroit.

Last time I checked Detroit’s economic history is not really about communism (unless by communism you mean big capitalist corporations).

Paris, London, Oslo and Beijing are socialist cities.

Do those seem like cesspools to you?[/quote]

No, YOU don’t WANT the cities to look that way. You’re just one of the useful idiots who votes for economic slavery. That other cities have not reached Detroit’s economic meltdown yet, is not an argument. If wealth is portable, it will flee from economic persecution. Hell, you don’t even know the difference between communism & socialism. Go look up GOSPlan, then see if you can connect at least two dots.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
Yes.

We want to make all US cities look like Detroit.

Last time I checked Detroit’s economic history is not really about communism (unless by communism you mean big capitalist corporations).

Paris, London, Oslo and Beijing are socialist cities.

Do those seem like cesspools to you?[/quote]

No, YOU don’t WANT the cities to look that way. You’re just one of the useful idiots who votes for economic slavery. That other cities have not reached Detroit’s economic meltdown yet, is not an argument. If wealth is portable, it will flee from economic persecution. Hell, you don’t even know the difference between communism & socialism. Go look up GOSPlan, then see if you can connect at least two dots.

[Casca]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
Yes.

We want to make all US cities look like Detroit.

Last time I checked Detroit’s economic history is not really about communism (unless by communism you mean big capitalist corporations).

Paris, London, Oslo and Beijing are socialist cities.

Do those seem like cesspools to you?[/quote]

No, YOU don’t WANT the cities to look that way. You’re just one of the useful idiots who votes for economic slavery. That other cities have not reached Detroit’s economic meltdown yet, is not an argument. If wealth is portable, it will flee from economic persecution. Hell, you don’t even know the difference between communism & socialism. Go look up GOSPlan, then see if you can connect at least two dots.

[Casca]

[quote=svelte][quote=Casca]Detroit is the posterchild for what the Dems/left want to do to America. [/quote]

San Francisco County has 273K registered Democrats and 66K registered Republicans.

The main street of SF looks nothing like the main street of Detroit.[/quote]

Have you ever made a trip across the bay Svelte? Drive down Fruitvale, preferably after dark.

[Casca]

[quote=svelte][quote=Casca]Detroit is the posterchild for what the Dems/left want to do to America. [/quote]

San Francisco County has 273K registered Democrats and 66K registered Republicans.

The main street of SF looks nothing like the main street of Detroit.[/quote]

Have you ever made a trip across the bay Svelte? Drive down Fruitvale, preferably after dark.

[Casca]

[quote=svelte][quote=Casca]Detroit is the posterchild for what the Dems/left want to do to America. [/quote]

San Francisco County has 273K registered Democrats and 66K registered Republicans.

The main street of SF looks nothing like the main street of Detroit.[/quote]

Have you ever made a trip across the bay Svelte? Drive down Fruitvale, preferably after dark.

[Casca]

[quote=svelte][quote=Casca]Detroit is the posterchild for what the Dems/left want to do to America. [/quote]

San Francisco County has 273K registered Democrats and 66K registered Republicans.

The main street of SF looks nothing like the main street of Detroit.[/quote]

Have you ever made a trip across the bay Svelte? Drive down Fruitvale, preferably after dark.

[Casca]

[quote=svelte][quote=Casca]Detroit is the posterchild for what the Dems/left want to do to America. [/quote]

San Francisco County has 273K registered Democrats and 66K registered Republicans.

The main street of SF looks nothing like the main street of Detroit.[/quote]

Have you ever made a trip across the bay Svelte? Drive down Fruitvale, preferably after dark.

[patb]

[quote=Casca]
This is what you get when socialism is liberally applied. The smart people vote with their feet, Atlas Shruggs if you will, and the parasites have the world fall on them. Imagine what the place would be like if the feds quit sending them money.

Detroit is the posterchild for what the Dems/left want to do to America. God bless Coleman Young, Nancy Pelosi, and all of the collective idiots who ever voted for them.[/quote]

Toyota pays pretty close to equivalent wages, So does BMW and Daimler. Detroit never embraced a culture of quality and they had lousy labor relations.

no, detroit had lots of trouble…Far more then the unions

[patb]

[quote=Casca]
This is what you get when socialism is liberally applied. The smart people vote with their feet, Atlas Shruggs if you will, and the parasites have the world fall on them. Imagine what the place would be like if the feds quit sending them money.

Detroit is the posterchild for what the Dems/left want to do to America. God bless Coleman Young, Nancy Pelosi, and all of the collective idiots who ever voted for them.[/quote]

Toyota pays pretty close to equivalent wages, So does BMW and Daimler. Detroit never embraced a culture of quality and they had lousy labor relations.

no, detroit had lots of trouble…Far more then the unions

[patb]

[quote=Casca]
This is what you get when socialism is liberally applied. The smart people vote with their feet, Atlas Shruggs if you will, and the parasites have the world fall on them. Imagine what the place would be like if the feds quit sending them money.

Detroit is the posterchild for what the Dems/left want to do to America. God bless Coleman Young, Nancy Pelosi, and all of the collective idiots who ever voted for them.[/quote]

Toyota pays pretty close to equivalent wages, So does BMW and Daimler. Detroit never embraced a culture of quality and they had lousy labor relations.

no, detroit had lots of trouble…Far more then the unions

[patb]

[quote=Casca]
This is what you get when socialism is liberally applied. The smart people vote with their feet, Atlas Shruggs if you will, and the parasites have the world fall on them. Imagine what the place would be like if the feds quit sending them money.

Detroit is the posterchild for what the Dems/left want to do to America. God bless Coleman Young, Nancy Pelosi, and all of the collective idiots who ever voted for them.[/quote]

Toyota pays pretty close to equivalent wages, So does BMW and Daimler. Detroit never embraced a culture of quality and they had lousy labor relations.

no, detroit had lots of trouble…Far more then the unions

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