It's not an opinion, it's a fact. Import cars didn't kill Detroit. The boom of SUV's in the 90's/early 2000's was a great time for the auto industry. Didn't do a damn thing for Detroit.
It was way too late then.
It's not an opinion, it's a fact. Import cars didn't kill Detroit. The boom of SUV's in the 90's/early 2000's was a great time for the auto industry. Didn't do a damn thing for Detroit.
Shit for brains; when the auto industry was thriving, so was Detroit.
No, it isn't. Japanese cars weren't popular until the oil crisis (1970's), but then fell out of favor for SUVs in the 80's/90's/2000's. Detroit has been declining since the early 60's.
Yes retard, the lack of revenue from the ruined economy has nothing to do with it. It is all the union's fault.
You are not even a good parrot.
It was way too late then.
Too bad you were not around back then. At least 1 in five cars in 1970 was a VW bug. If you only knew, not that it would matter.
Damo does know, he is just denying reality on principle's stake, as usual.
By the way, when gas was 25 cents a gallon, there were still people who wanted to burn less of it.
riddle me this, Rune.......if your population drops from over a million to 700,000 between the 2000 and 2010 census, is it likely that you need 30% fewer teachers, 30% fewer policemen, 30% fewer firemen, 30% fewer janitors, 30% fewer everything in municipal government?.........but the municipal workers unions didn't agree to reducing ranks by 30%......what effect do you think that had on the city budget?......
Dubya encouraged car companies to make wasteful cars, in two ways, by eliminating the CAFE increases, and by allowing SUV's over 6000 lbs to
receive tax benefits meant for commercial trucks.
see what happens when a city cultivates too much a single industry.
the industry fucks them
Chicago is finding the same. Nearly 50 schools closed, over 1000 teachers and 3000 staff laid off. Between pensions and new contract they still face a billion dollar deficit. That's just the CPS. Anyone really wonder about police, fire, streets and san, etc?
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...0724_1_cps-students-pension-reform-budget-gap
Thanks for proving what you advocate has never worked. It is not as if it hasn't been tried. It never fails to devolve into the worst kind of tyranny.
everyone knows this city was fucked and used by the CEOS of the car industry they had cultivated in the city.
The city embraced those corporations and were rewarded for it like the temporary CEOs at the time felt was proper.
this is what you get when you trust SOME GUY the corporation promoted to the top last year to be your true partner in governing a city
And who did this Desh? Can you be honest and tell me which party was running that city and doing this? Will you be honest and do a bit of introspection on your own?
Now for a bit of reality: The laws passed that were agreeable to the unions of those companies (supposedly protecting their jobs by keeping out competition), as well as the public unions, were instrumental in the fiscal downfall of that city.
The reality is, Detroit didn't fall from losing 40K jobs (the car companies in their heyday), or the 9,000 that they currently employ in that city. Detroit fell because the policy of their local government was detrimental to the future fiscal well being of the city.
damo how many service jobs existed because of those car industry jobs were there?
Yeah, it can't be that the stupid policy of the lawmakers refusing to cultivate new businesses in the area causing that to happen, it's the companies. They're all evil. Those Buggy Whip Makers made our fictional city, mentioned earlier, fail not the city government's failure to take a longer view.