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June 16, 2009
The City of America's Future
Want to see where Obama is taking us? Visit Detroit, which has been governed in accordance with his ideology for decades, with the inevitable results:
On a tip from AC.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 16, 2009 7:40 PM
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MORE SOCIAL PROGRAMS TO THE RESCUE!
And who will pay for them? The taxes from the profits of Government Motors?
Posted by: Worst of Gallstone at June 16, 2009 8:04 PM
Follow up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8k8QkVER1s
Posted by: J at June 16, 2009 8:09 PM
Ten bucks says she has voted Dem her entire life and will continue to do so.
Posted by: Oldcrow at June 16, 2009 8:50 PM
Obviously, they need more liberal policies. /sarc
Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 16, 2009 9:32 PM
One minor amendment to your headline Van...
Marabel personifies America. Her last year is our future.
More than sad. Beyond tragic.
Posted by: Sylvia at June 16, 2009 10:09 PM
More than sad. Beyond tragic.
Posted by: Sylvia at June 16, 2009 10:09 PM
Sylvia said it.
But even more tragic - liberals would rather euthanize Mirabelle just to shut her up and not use up “their” government healthcare. Bastards.
And damned right, 'Ghost of a silly dead liberal's turd' and other idiots - I DO blame socialist liberals for this kind of crap; and no matter how "eloquently" you may speak against me - you know in your silly little heartless souls, this is YOUR fault. YOU created these ghettos with YOUR "social engineering."
May all you worthless bastards be haunted by the Ghost of Mirabelle.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 16, 2009 10:38 PM
We can only hope that Mirabel has family that will get her the h#ll out of there.
And when she leaves, she'll pretty much have to abandon her home. For most seniors, that's the biggest investment they have - and hers is worthless now.
As Sylvia said, it's beyond tragic.
No wonder Detroit is nicknamed "New Mogadishu". Detroit and California are two of the best examples of where the Neosocialist Liberal "Progressive" agenda is taking us....in a hurry.
Posted by: TonyD95B at June 16, 2009 10:46 PM
I have a Liberal friend whose father is a professor of sociology at a western US university. He was one of the authors of LBJ's great society program. He told me that his dad revisited the program 20 years later and had found that everything they had tried had made things worse for inner city blacks. Big surprise.
Well, that is the view into the unintended consequences of that great society. America's Mogadishu. 'Ain't that special?'
Posted by: Robohobo at June 16, 2009 10:59 PM
If you think this clip is tragic, J posted the link to the follow-up...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8k8QkVER1s
Marabel died of a heart attack the day after Christmas (2008) and she lies in the morgue awaiting burial in an unmarked city grave. She has no relatives and the city is waiting for Federal money to bury 35 destitute souls in the morgue.
When this next generation grows old, the United States will be applying for aid from Haiti.
Posted by: Sylvia at June 16, 2009 11:39 PM
Most disturbing from the followup video, "never married, never mothered." If she didn't have other social networks (e.g. church, neighbors, friends) then she only had the "state" to depend on, which is why she made her desparate plee in the first place. Just imagine how our old/unconnected will fare with Obamacare. "Soylent Green is made of people". Very scary
Posted by: KT at June 17, 2009 2:17 AM
This neighborhood is the perfect monument to the ravages of socialism. Its total failure as a system of government and insidious destroyer of the human spirit "should" be taught in all the classrooms.
Posted by: Lord Crimson at June 17, 2009 4:12 AM
I know families who used to live in Detroit, but pulled out in the 1970's. Their descriptions of getting out of the city as the decline started (under corrupt socialist Coleman Young, who made Kwame Kilpatrick look like Rudy Giuliani) have a certain "last helicopter out of Saigon" quality.
And now, an acolyte of the Coleman Young/Marion Barry/John Street school of governance is president of the USA. God help us all.
Posted by: V the K at June 17, 2009 4:21 AM
Things really went down hill there after Dan Akroyd starred in Doctor Detroit.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 17, 2009 4:47 AM
"What do you do? You tell me. Give me a suggestion." - Here you go. STOP VOTING FOR THE LIBERALS AND THEIR POLICIES WHICH BROUGHT THIS DOOM UPON YOU.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 17, 2009 4:55 AM
Ha!
"John Street...the best Mayor money could buy!"
Posted by: Uncle Tom at June 17, 2009 5:51 AM
this poor women passed away :(
Posted by: furballz at June 17, 2009 9:54 AM
Ok, so you idiots can watch this and still not understand the plan to demolish certain areas in decaying cities to consolidate? This is exactly the sort of thing that this proposal mentions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html
So what's YOUR plan to help this poor woman and our decaying cities? You've got fucking nothing. Denial.
Posted by: Joe the Plumber at June 17, 2009 8:40 PM

