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Take a video tour of Detroit - Democratic Party Bastion.

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Cohete Rojo, Aug 19, 2016.

  1. Cohete Rojo

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    Liquor store, liquor store, middle-of-the-road campfire, liquor store, prostitutes, liquor store...

    Is it that bad?

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vMWHJDr8fxE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
  2. Ubiquitin

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    Is Democrat a code word for poor people now?
     
  3. CometsWin

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    We could take a tour of thousands of towns in Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, etc. Liquor store, liquor store, gun store, meth lab, trailer park. Republican Party bastions. Derp.
     
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    those places have always been crapholes. Detroit was once had the highest per capita income in the United States.
     
  5. Nook

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    50 years ago.
     
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    Democrats destroyed the auto industry?
     
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    They are kind of synonymous, poor people are foolish enough to think Democrats are looking out for them so they vote for Democrats who enact policies that keep them poor and they always keep voting for them.

    At some point they become one and the same.
     
  9. Dubious

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    What policies are you referring to? bailing out the auto industry?
     
  10. Dairy Ashford

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    OP is pretty plainly using it as code for something else.
     
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    "Democratic Party Bastion".

    Let's look at murder rates in the US, from data on Wikipedia. Number 1 & 2 are St. Louis and Detroit. St. Louis has had only Democratic mayors since 1949, and Detroit has had only Democratic mayors since 1962.

    Yes, I would call that a "Democratic Party Bastion".
     
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    I'm sure those people will be first in line for the 2016 election vote.
     
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    Inside the Republican Bastion in the age of Trump:

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  14. Dubious

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    New jobs report is an utter disaster for Kansas and Brownback



    The new July jobs report released Friday is an utter disaster for Kansans and embattled Gov. Sam Brownback.

    Here are the lowlights.

    ▪ The state lost 5,600 jobs from June to July.

    ▪ The unemployment rate jumped to 4.1 percent from 3.8 percent in June.

    ▪ Over the last year, Kansas has actually shed 4,500 jobs.

    ▪ The Sunflower State’s “growth” rate over that 12 months is a minus 0.3 percent — 5th worst in the nation. Only Wyoming, North Dakota, Louisiana and Oklahoma were behind Kansas.

    ▪ Kansas had employment of 1,395,700 in July 2016 — or a stunning 600 fewer jobs than when Brownback’s second term started way back in January 2015.

    ▪ Finally, Kansas is nowhere close to adding the 2,000 jobs a month that Brownback had pledged during his re-election campaign in 2014.

    Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/o...&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark#storylink=cpy
     
  15. Dairy Ashford

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    So Brownback's policies are not effective enough to offset commercial or industrial issues with Kansas's economy. Separately is 4.1% that bad an unemployment rate, statewide, compared to the rest of the country?
     
  16. Cohete Rojo

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    So, are you saying it was once a great city?
     
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    You should give us a tour around the US of all the liberal bastions and compare them to the conservative bastions and then tell us where you would rather hang out.
     
  18. Cohete Rojo

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    Haven't been to either. But I would like to point out what Dan Rather thinks of Detroit's public schools - a national disgrace.

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4xypiZ-hqdY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
  19. Nook

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    A 4.1% unemployment rate isn't bad.... especially in that part of the country (for comparison last I checked Illinois had close to a 7% rate). The problem is job growth (a more valuable indicator) in Kansas is in the bottom 20% and that isn't something the state is used also. Also because of serious tax cuts; the state has serious budget problems.
     
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    I once thought of spending the weekend shopping in Michigan ,so I drove from Ontario and the nearest decent place i could find..was in Indiana .
     

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