Behold The Power Of Liberal Policies: Median House Price In Detroit Is $7,500

• March 3, 2009

I’m…speechless.
The last one out of Detroit, please turn off the lights.

“It may be tough to get financing for a new car these days, but in Detroit you can buy a house with a credit card.
The median price of a home sold in Detroit in December was $7,500, according to Realcomp, a listing service.
Not $75,000. Remove a zero—it’s seven thousand five hundred dollars, substantially less than the lowest-price car on the new-car market.
Among the many dispiriting numbers that bleakly depict the decrepitude of this onetime industrial behemoth, the steep slide of housing values helps define the daunting challenge to anyone who wants to lead this shrinking, poverty-pocked city of about 800,000 people.

My car is apparently worth a couple of houses in Detroit.
A couple of weeks ago I posted about an entire neighborhood being abandoned in Detroit.
Perhaps this is not so shocking when you consider that Detroit is one of the most heavily liberal cities in this country. Entitlements. Tough gun control. Big government spending at every corner. And thoroughly Democrat leadership in place for decades. It’s little wonder the city is a cesspool of crime and poverty.
If you want to know whether or not big government works, look at Detroit.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Careful RA, I was labeled a racist speaking he (sic) truth.

No, I think you were labeled a racist when you called that little boy a “kike“.
rightwing conspiracy

Or maybe you could actually give them an education, in good well funded schools where they could actually learn something. You know, like the white kids get.

Since when has education been denied in the past, what 50 years?
docdave

Could be the rats are leaving the sinking liberal ships?
carrick

Buzz, good thing you still have that tractor to spread all that manure around.
Factual Truth

I hate to be “politically incorrect,” but the problem here isn’t “liberals.” There are a lot of liberals in Vermont, but Vermont doesn’t look much like Detroit.

No, the problem is with the people of Detroit. The people who moved in during the 1960s and 1970s and drove out all the people who had built the city.

Demographics Determine Destiny. Zimbabwe was nice once, too, until power changed hands.
Bat One

Could be the rats are leaving the sinking liberal ships?

Must be. All the respectable people left long time ago.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

So, you cant (sic)call a Jew a Kike, but you can call blacks niggers. Typical Republicans.

Delusional bigot buzz: I never said you could call blacks the “N” word. What are you smoking out there? You’re the only one using the “N” word here, moron!
carrick

If I’m not mistaken, and I may well be, Buzz in the one on the front right.

Pointy hats as a sign of masculinity.

Who knew?
robert108

You can’t “give” someone an education; they have to learn, which is an active occupation, not a passive one. Typical leftiethink.
pparets

Rabid… how COULD you leave out the best ‘commonality’ of all… Camden, NJ.
Buzz

Now there is the poster child for “trickle-down” economics. The rich buy there forth or fifth condo and the poor get shit. I guess thats what happens when the nations wealth is transferred to the top 2%.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Hope and Change we can count on! Thanks Obama for making homes so affordable!
george

at least they have the detroit lions
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Or maybe it was the “Porch monkey” comment?
raj58045

Buy American, Buy Union Made… the job you save might be your own.

Say Buzz, Union jobs, isn’t that what made Detroit the success that it is?
Bat One

at least they have the detroit lions

Now THAT’S funny!
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Boycott union made goods and services. They destroyed Detroit. Now they want to do the same to the rest of America.

They have a pretty good start right here.
Buzz

Careful RA, I was labeled a racist speaking he truth.
Eddie_the_Hated

Wait…

…Is that knob-slobberer in the center wearing an eyepatch?

Entitlements. Tough gun control. Big government spending at every corner. And thoroughly Democrat leadership in place for decades. It’s little wonder the city is a cesspool of crime and poverty.

Correction.

Tough gun laws. Shit-all for real gun control.
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

What? and these people need help with their mortgages? I think not. There is something else going on with BHO and his bailouts. Money to the top guys and his supporters, not the little guys ..
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Get your sheets back from the cleaners for your next Klan rally, buzz?
HG

I guess thats what happens when the nations wealth is transferred to the top 2%.

So let’s transfer it to the top .000165%

435 congressmen
100 senators
1 president

Yeah, that makes sense… to a liberal.

By the way. ‘The wealth’ is spread out a lot more than the top 2% in our free market.
sayanything-5371

Someday, in the not too distant future the decaying rat-warren like cities that liberals infest will be empty shells of armageddon. The liberals will destroy their own homes and towns. It has already begun.
Mickey

I mean seriously, what are you going to do? You cant get them to work, putting them in jail only overcrowds the jails, cut there money off all together and you would need all the troops we have in Iraq back here to put down the riots. You could sterilize them I guess, but that would probably draw attention. Target practice is always an option, they seem to miss there target a lot.

Or maybe you could actually give them an education, in good well funded schools where they could actually learn something. You know, like the white kids get.

A UNION CARD MEMBER DEMOCRAT IF EVER THERE WAS ONE
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

Until Detroit is considered it’s own country, it’s still part of the failed country run into the ground by 30 years of conservatism.

Beginning of the month. I trust your check arrived, Potato?
mnconservative

GIVE them an education? Why, so they could throw it to the curb. Detoit has been under leftie rule for decades. See what all the give away’s do for a city, they impoverish it. People are unable to take care of themselves!

The fault here lies with the people who elected the same failed policies of the past decades. Check the election rolls and see which party was in charge of the city and the state for that matter.

$7500 is probably too much.
Robert Varley

Dino, I think Detroit has been run by Liberals for the past 30 years, not conservatives. What a great job they have done!!
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Detroit, MI.
Philadelphia, PA.
D.C.
Atlanta, GA.
Gary, In.
Cincinnati, OH.
etc.

They are all shit hole cities run by Democrat s. All have pretty tough gun laws and high crime rates. Gary Indiana is oen of the murder campitals of the USA.

No one wants to live in Detroit Rob that is why property is so expensive. I wouldn’t live there without packing heat with a CWP.
http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

Somebody name the commonalities –

Detroit, MI.
Philadelphia, PA.
D.C.
Atlanta, GA.
Gary, In.
Cincinnati, OH.
etc.
…………………

Thought so………
mnconservative

Let’s get one thing straight about unemployment insurance and payments. Any here whom have owned their own business know that unemployment is funded by the business owner. The money deposited into the system, which is a perfect example of the collective, is essentially the employee’s by dictate of the law. The money is collected by the government, washed through the system, and only a percentage of it is put back into the “account for the worker.” Then when anyone applies for unemployment the all powerful gov’t makes you jump through a ton of hoops to get back your own money.

And no, I have never received unemployment but I have been a business owner. Unemployment is the biggest abuse of the American worker that has ever been perpetrated. The money that is laundered through the system is money that would be paid directly to the employee but for gov’t intervention. The diluted $’s that are returned to the employee should never have been put in the hands of the sucking hole that is gov’t bureaucracy. Every worker has to obligation to save for a rainy day it is not the gov’t that should have ever been put in charge of anyone’s future well being.
Buzz

I mean seriously, what are you going to do? You cant get them to work, putting them in jail only overcrowds the jails, cut there money off all together and you would need all the troops we have in Iraq back here to put down the riots. You could sterilize them I guess, but that would probably draw attention. Target practice is always an option, they seem to miss there target a lot.

Or maybe you could actually give them an education, in good well funded schools where they could actually learn something. You know, like the white kids get.
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

Government socialist schools. Maybe they used “everyday math”!
Correct. You can lead someone to water, but you can not make them drink, or in this case, learn.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

Well yeah, Potato. You work now. But when you found yourself out of work you took the time to go to the unemployment office, signed up for benefits and took those socialist welfare checks.

And when you were a kid your family got welfare help that resulted in you becoming a flaming asshole conservative shitheel.

Irony?
http://www.fileitunder.com/ Hoodlumman

Yes, Detroit. The model of what conservatism does to cities.

Troll much, Dino?
carrick

Hoodlumman:

Troll much, Dino?

More like drop blogroach turds.
carrick

Buzz:

in good well funded schools where they could actually learn something

Oh. So you support accountability in school funding now? As in the NCLB act?

Or is this something that happens cause we all “just decide to get along” or some other liberal nonsense like that?
Buzz

No, I think you were labeled a racist when you called that little boy a “kike”.

So, you cant call a Jew a Kike, but you can call blacks niggers. Typical Republicans. If you vote the “right” way your protected, but if not your not protected.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Unlike you, I work for a living Dino. If it was up to shitheads like you, no one would work. Of course, where you’d get the money to keep them on minimal life support welfare is something you can’t explain as you’ve been challenged to five billion times or so since you first opened your trap. IF NO ONE HAS ANY MONEY LEFT FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE TO GIVE TO OTHERS, HOW DO YOU FEED EVERYONE? The answer is of course two-fold… SLAVERY and YOU DON’T. As your fellow traveler Buzz would like, you get rid of the surplus population you don’t like and write them off.

Which makes you Nazis.

Hmmm… Racist, bigoted, prejudiced, advocating violence to get your way, an oppressive fascist system for your own benefit AND homosexual.

Yeah, you’re a Nazi Dino.

I still pity you.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

They seem to have missed the entirety of the Robocop trilogy. Thankfully, the rest of the world got the clue to stay the heck away from there.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Every city run by leftards ends up regretting it, and quietly dying as long as they remain in power. The tragedy is, that that is exactly what those gutless heartless cowards want. They want a citizenry pathetic, worn out, beaten down, and looking to barely survive on the graces of others.

It’s a slow-motion holocaust perpetrated on them by their fellow citizens all for the sake of those bastards’ egos. We conservatives have a long uphill battle to retake their minds to believing in themselves again, but the human spirit is on our side, not the left.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Your purposeful ignorance is continuing unabated. What did I say? I said they (the welfare case workers employed by the state) wanted to keep my family on welfare, obstructed our attempts to get off it, and even advocated defrauding the government (their advocacy constitutes gross dereliction of duty and under the laws of my state may be construed to be a felony) to stay on it rather than helping us get off it and be self-sustaining contributing people we are today. Instead of needing welfare, WE FUCKING THE FOOT THE BILL YOU FOOL.

THAT is the system YOU advocate Dino. YOU want people NOT to work. YOU want people to depend on others. YOU want people to not be able to help themselves. YOU advocate indefinite weakness and dependency.

If it was up to you, my mother would have died by forty-five in that housing project, I’d be living there still on welfare, and everyone we ever knew there would still be there or dead. PEOPLE LIKE YOU THRIVE ON THE SUFFERING OF THE LESS FORTUNATE SO YOU CAN FEEL WARM AND SPECIAL THAT A SMALL FRACTION OF THE WELFARE BUDGET CAN EVER ACTUALLY REACH A SINGLE HUMAN BEING.

You’re a coward Dino because you want society and the state to do to others what you yourself are too afraid to do. You’re scum because you want others to suffer. You’re a reprehensible pathetic excuse for a human being.

I pity you, and the Portland citizenry a bit more.

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