Comments on: Why isn’t Detroit a Paradise?

By: Aw1 Tim

Aw1 Tim — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:54:29 +0000

Avatar check… see if it’s working yet.

By: Aw1 Tim

Aw1 Tim — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:53:41 +0000

Toejam,

Heh… Sadly, my day job (one of them, anyway) is as a musician.

I play the blues a lot better. Seriously. :)

By: Toejam

Toejam — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:34:28 +0000

Don’t give up the day job, Aw1 Tim

By: Nadnerbus

Nadnerbus — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:51:38 +0000

There are simple ways to bring back business to that area. Make it a right to work state (which will sadly never happen), lower the business tax rates to make them competitive with any other prosperous state, and either provide or encourage job retraining and placement. If the economic climate is conducive to business life, it will come all on its own. If the climate is poisoned against business, it will not. And it has been poisoned for thirty or so years. I know that’s all obvious to anyone that read your post, Murdoch, but it bears repeating in plain terms. The liberal mind reads that and thinks, “that’s not fair. Business should do the socially responsible thing and just pay more for labor and in taxes to to business here. They are the bad guys.” That mindset is so prevalent, and causes the problems that they say they want to solve. Ford and GM are not charities. If they can’t sell their product for more than they paid to produce it, they will cease to exist. The worker has as much at stake in the success of the company as the CEO. Strangling profit off by demanding unsustainable wages and benefits just screws everyone.

Cue Obama “spreading the wealth around.” Some lessons just refuse to be learned.

By: Flanker

Flanker — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:47:52 +0000

Yea, between Big Labor being in goose lock step with the tax happy Dems in this state, and the free trade agreements giving Big Management a license to sell us out overseas…….it sure ain’t pretty. It tickles me what a big deal both Detroit papers make about all the movie biz coming to town to film, since the Governor and Detroit area made it good business sense to do business their. Think they’ll ever wake up and realise it might work for other types of business too. Nah! Didn’t think so.

By: Aw1 Tim

Aw1 Tim — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:28:08 +0000

Wit apologies to Coolio.

” ‘Been living all my life in this worker’s paradise.

Windows broken up & down the street, and the folks here don’t have much to eat.

But we make ro with beans & rice, living in this worker’s paradise.

Obama says I won’t have to pay for gas, or my mortgage if I’ll just kiss his @ss.

oooooooooooooooo…

Been living all my life in Detroit ROCK CITY! paradise.

got a ‘40 & a fattie and my life is nice living in the worker’s paradise.

An Obama fan, he be the man wit the plan, gonna grow our worker’s paradise!

Free food & money, car & house that’s nice! Gotta love dis worker’s paradise!

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By: Bram

Bram — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:41:04 +0000

Gee wiz, who would have thought thuggish unionism, inept management, and the highest corporate taxes in the world would hurt business?