but just got around to posting on it. Short version: "We've effed up this city so bad, we ought to just turn a lot of it back into farmland."
"Things that were unthinkable are now becoming thinkable," said James W. Hughes, dean of the School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, who is among the urban experts watching the experiment with interest. "There is now a realization that past glories are never going to be recaptured. Some people probably don't accept that, but that is the reality."
Well, y'know, if you cleaned out the corrupt politicians, fired all the incompetent teachers and actually tried to, you could probably rebuild the city; but that would require actually doing something yourselves AND paying for it yourselves; much easier to beg the feds to rob other people to pay for this idiot idea.
Two things: first, from this guy,
My question is where are they going to put all the bricks, or the concrete from foundations and sidewalks? I've buried a lot of no longer used farm buildings and it's not an easy effort and that was way before today's environmental rules that won't allow you to just dig a hole, push the stuff in and then cover it up with a bulldozer, willy-nilly. Then once they get this junk cleared, what is going to be the remaining soil's organic matter content, or its profile? Will it even support a vegetable garden, let alone a field of something?
Second, the soil doesn't really matter: these clowns could, to borrow a saying, screw up a wet dream; even if the soil was good for growing they'd muck it up. And use that as an excuse to beg for more of other peoples' money to fix things. Again.
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You got your finger right on the dot. It is possible but I must say, is it probable?
The problem with Detroit is the problem with very nearly every major city in the US. It's just more visible in Detroit, because the organized ethnic cleansing that drove the white race out of American city centers in the 1970s and 1980s was completed there.
If you want to fix Detroit, you're going to have to round up its savage IQ-55 inhabitants and put them on Liberty ships for a one-way trip back to Africa, then bring back the people who made the city great. Anything short of that is pissing in the wind.
Detroit is Port-au-Prince with snow, and thus it shall remain, no matter how much of Whitey's money is shoveled at the inhabitants, no matter what risible "standards" the current strongmen say they're going to implement.
That's not likely in the foreseeable future, but nothing else will ever fix Detroit. Or Harlem. Or East St. Louis. Or New Orleans. Or Los Angeles. Or the South Bronx. Or Atlanta. Or Memphis. Or...
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