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- kemp34, on 06/03/2008, -1/+9Mr. Nystrom is the man who designed the Daily Paul. I appreciate his sites.
- manystrom, on 06/03/2008, -1/+8Kemp - Thank you very much.
Michael Nystrom - inactive, on 06/03/2008, -2/+5Making great cities fall to their knees is a great past time for the punitive rich. It's almost as good as going hunting for humans or mass murdering a community with poisoned water.
- degaz, on 06/04/2008, -1/+3It really is that bad. The whole stretch of 8 mile from Gratiot to Telegraph is dotted with blight and desolation. You can see the loss of hope in the people's eyes. It's sad that as the days go by life for the citizens of Detroit has become nothing more than scrambling to make the food stamps last and score some dope. We need some concrete leadership to inspire the people and revolutionize this once great city.
- brad3378, on 06/04/2008, -1/+3I know it's popular to talk trash about Detroit, but it is my home and I wish I was there.
If the job market ever heals back in Michigan, I'm hoping to go home and sleep in my own bed at night even if it means losing tens of thousands in salary. Living away from home sucks - and that's why I'm one of the more popular people on Digg. I've got too much time on my hands while I'm away from my friends and family back home.
Nobody seems to have a clue how bad things are in Michigan.
I more than doubled my salary by leaving home, but there's a part of me that wishes I was still there. Selling my home isn't an option because houses in my neighborhood are selling for $50,000 below appraisal value. It has been this way long before the housing crisis made it to the mainstream media. Detroit is ground zero when it comes to the housing meltdown. I'd say things started getting bad about 5 years ago.
It will be 3 years this November since I have worked in Michigan. For a while I held a 2nd residence in Ohio where I worked on a pair of contract jobs. As bad as the job market was in Ohio, I'd still see about a dozen Michigan license plates deep inside Ohio late on a Sunday night. It was a sobering reminder that I wasn't alone. From what I've heard, jobs are drying up in Ohio now too.
Now I work in Milwaukee.
Occasionally I take an Amtrak train back to Michigan to check up on my house and visit with friends / family.
Sadly, I'm seeing the same phenomenon. I've met and talked to several people on the train that also had homes in Michigan but worked in the Chicago/Milwaukee area. It's quite sad, and it makes me feel angry that there's not a damn thing I can do to fix things. Just gotta keep taking one day at a time, keep paying the mortgage in Michigan and the rent payment in Milwaukee. Hopefully in another 5 years I'll have enough savings and equity to sell my house and have the option to start over. Or maybe I'll get lucky and a tornado will take out my house so the insurance company will pay it off. Having limited options sucks. And to think I'm one of the lucky people because I don't have a wife and children to drag all over the country with me on these contract jobs.
Okay - that's enough whining for now.
Back to reading about why my home is such a bad place and how my neighbors are somehow in bed with the oil companies ......despite not having jobs.......... Yup - that's it. - salinemist, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1There's no mistaking the direct correlation between the fall of these cities and the asinine policies, regulations and taxes enacted by the liberal governments of these cities.
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1That's because the Feds have all the money that should be kept for the states to fix their problems.
- spencert, on 06/04/2008, -1/+2We have a "war" in Detroit and no one is doing anything about it. Same in West Philly, Trenton, Camden, Richmond and loads of other places. It's ridiculous.
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -0/+0I live in Ohio and let me say that you are correct. IT sector still has some good opportunities, but they are dwindling fast. Salaries have also been stagnant here, as in Michigan.
People have forgotten that we are fighting, what will likely turn out to be, the most expensive war of all time. Guess who's paying that tab? Protests need to begin.
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