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It's all Obama's fault!!!

$3,200,000/6365= $502.75

zzyzzx says

It's all Obama's fault!!!

HEY YOU says

$3,200,000/6365= $502.75

The terms of the transaction must have been horrible. They might negotiate them to where profits are possible.
I would not buy the crap if they paid me $10,000 per property.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

If they bought the land and houses, they own everyone there, too.

Slaves, we need lots of slaves to get the economy going again.

HEY YOU says

$3,200,000/6365= $502.75

Now that you put it that way, it does seem a bit expensive for what you get.

zzyzzx says

HEY YOU says

$3,200,000/6365= $502.75

Now that you put it that way, it does seem a bit expensive for what you get.

The payments would be around $2.00 per month. No way the homeless can afford it.
It's pathetic.

While the property taxes would at least be $3,200,000 on those properties.
If the last two years has taught us anything, that is houses aren't selling.

CaptainShuddup says

While the property taxes would at least be $3,200,000 on those properties.

If the last two years has taught us anything, that is houses aren't selling.

The insurance on these houses won't be cheap either.

The state should bulldoze the entire city. Turn it into farmland.

jvolstad says

The state should bulldoze the entire city. Turn it into farmland.

No no no! That's the easy way out.
They should bulldoze the city and build high rise farms. Because natural sun light and rain from the sky, is crazy talk.

Bring a manufacturing initiative to Detroit.

Educate the people in Mechanical, Industrial, and Electronics Engineering.

Set up 3-4 manufacturing sites for clean cars/clean energy R&D, get Nissan, Kia, Ford, and other key car manufacturers involved.

Offer 2% state tax on capitol equipment, tax breaks for manufacturing, and tax breaks for classes in Manufacturing.

Offer 35% federal tax cuts on key manufacturing for parts that trickle down to other firms. (AKA parts for fuel injections, differential components etc). Trickle down is not only stimulative to jobs, but this rids the cost of taxation at every station.

Offer 15% real estate tax cuts on land developing factories to house and train workers.

Summary: If there were to ever work, Detroit could be a center for advanced clean car/Manufacturing/R&D innovation!

Entitlemented says

Educate the people in Mechanical, Industrial, and Electronics Engineering.

http://www.wxyz.com/news/michigan-high-school-graduation-rate-still-behind-national-average

Good luck.

The price is worth it just to have the captive customer base for crack, meth and heroin.

Entitlemented says

Summary: If there were to ever work, Detroit could be a center for advanced clean car/Manufacturing/R&D innovation!

True, but unions could easily ruin the manufacturing part, again.

zzyzzx says

Entitlemented says

Summary: If there were to ever work, Detroit could be a center for advanced clean car/Manufacturing/R&D innovation!

True, but unions could easily ruin the manufacturing part, again.

They will.
Besides, why would skilled engineers want to work in high crime Detroit when they have a choice of working in California, Texas, and Massachusetts.
We don't need Detroit anymore. Lets sell it to the Russians.

Detroit is fine. Good location. Just happens to be infested with criminals and other rabble.

Quigley says

Detroit is fine. Good location.

Just a song of Detroit, I wonder what they did there
Must've been a bad thing to get shot down for
I wonder how they blew it up or if they burned it down
Get out, get out Mr. Lot and don't you turn around.

Who gave you your orders, someone from the sky
I heard a voice inside my head in the desert wind so dry
I heard a voice tellin' me to flee the very same voice I always believe
Say alot of trouble comin', but it don't have to come to you
I'm telling you so you can tell the rest what you've been through.
But don't you turn around, no, don't look after you

It's not your business how it's done, you're lucky to get through
You're a good upstanding man, a credit to the flock
But if you don't face straight ahead you could not take the shock
Blew the city off the man, left nothing there but fire
The wife of Lot got turned to salt, because she looked behind her.

Blight bundle, now that's hilarious. 3.2 million?, just give it to them, oh wait, I heard a real estate developer mentioned...

zzyzzx says

Entitlemented says

Summary: If there were to ever work, Detroit could be a center for advanced clean car/Manufacturing/R&D innovation!

True, but unions could easily ruin the manufacturing part, again.

Sir,

Do you think its the Unions, Outsourcing or the fine Mayors that the city has been blessed with?

Entitlemented says

Educate the people

Losing proposition right off the bat. Haven't you seen some of the videos of people in those nasty areas of Detroit?? Makes backwoods hillbillies look like Mensa candidates. Sorry, you have to put down the 40 ounce and your crack pipe and pick up a book, not gonna happen.

Entitlemented says

Do you think its the Unions, Outsourcing or the fine Mayors that the city has been blessed with?

All of the above! Although the bad local government is the fault of the electorate.

So what are you saying? Patrick should cash out now??

Ceffer says

The price is worth it just to have the captive customer base for crack, meth and heroin.

Entitlemented says

Bring a manufacturing initiative to Detroit.

Educate the people in Mechanical, Industrial, and Electronics Engineering.

Set up 3-4 manufacturing sites for clean cars/clean energy R&D, get Nissan, Kia, Ford, and other key car manufacturers involved.

Offer 2% state tax on capitol equipment, tax breaks for manufacturing, and tax breaks for classes in Manufacturing.

THis is communist talk.

THere has to be a market based solution.

ALthough if the plan is for the government to get it going up to a level where its profitable or to where it's profit potential is high enough, and to where it could be sold to say Haliburton or some other connected company, then I guess that's not communism.

marcus says

THis is communist talk.

THere has to be a market based solution.

If there was, it would have already happened.
When you are in a high crime city no one wants to live in like Detroit and Atlantic City, you know it's time to pull the plug.
Tesla could have set up shop in Detroit along with it's Giga factory. I bet Elon Musk would have laughed loud if presented with the thought.

Strategist says

When you are in a high crime city no one wants to live in like Detroit and Atlantic City

Black people ruin everything!

I've got a plan.
Buy up all grocery stores in the city and shut them down except for two in the best areas, and they won't accept EBT cards or food stamps.
That should clear the place out of the undesirables in a year or so.
Then you can rebuild and resettle the city, bringing in workers, not welfare recipients.

Vicente says

A robotic police force would be a great thing provide that

1. The entire system is transparent including the source code so that everyone in the world can check the system for flaws.

2. The system is developed by highly skilled and highly ethical engineers, not by politicians or the police.

3. There was universal monitoring of the system.

4. The system does not recognize any privilege. High ranking politicians are treated exactly the same as the homeless.

Instead of

think

marcus says

Entitlemented says

Bring a manufacturing initiative to Detroit.

Educate the people in Mechanical, Industrial, and Electronics Engineering.

Set up 3-4 manufacturing sites for clean cars/clean energy R&D, get Nissan, Kia, Ford, and other key car manufacturers involved.

Offer 2% state tax on capitol equipment, tax breaks for manufacturing, and tax breaks for classes in Manufacturing.

THis is communist talk.

THere has to be a market based solution.

ALthough if the plan is for the government to get it going up to a level where its profitable or to where it's profit potential is high enough, and to where it could be sold to say Haliburton or some other connected company, then I guess that's not communism.

You just cant admit that black people, supported by the federal government, completely fucked up Detroit, can you?

Because that is what happened. The crime rates supported by children of black people on welfare, made Detroit crimeridden and sent the whites, along with any middle class blacks, fleeing to suburbs. That happened a while back, and now Detroit is basically unlivable.

But you are incapable of seeing beyond your own racial bias and placing the blame squarely where it belongs.

Dan8267 says

A robotic police force would be a great thing provide that

1. The entire system is transparent including the source code so that everyone in the world can check the system for flaws.

2. The system is developed by highly skilled and highly ethical engineers, not by politicians or the police.

3. There was universal monitoring of the system.

4. The system does not recognize any privilege. High ranking politicians are treated exactly the same as the homeless.

Instead of

You realize that those robots would execute 90% of the black male population of Detroit, don't you?

dodgerfanjohn says

You realize that those robots would execute 90% of the black male population of Detroit, don't you?

You are ignoring condition 2.

Dan8267 says

dodgerfanjohn says

You realize that those robots would execute 90% of the black male population of Detroit, don't you?

You are ignoring condition 2.

I assure you that I am not.

From one of the Silicon Valley bashing threads, here's my take on Detroit metro ...

I'd say that the suburbs of Detroit, not the city itself, should be the next growth center for programming.

Here's why ... Ann Arbor Michigan is still an excellent engineering/science school (and a nice college town, in general) and one can hire a number of them, as interns and possibly, future full time workers. Though Ann Arbor's 2hrs away, there's also Wayne State, Michigan State, and other Univ of Michigan campuses, all in the area.

Since big auto had been in decline for some time, home prices in the metro region are very reasonable.

And finally, for partying, one can take the causeway to Windsor Ontario, just across the river. There are night clubs, strippers, and legal esc*rts over there. The city is reasonably safe, unlike Detroit which is a hellhole, and clean. And if you want a mega city, Toronto is some 4 hours away for a weekend getaway. That's not a bad package, once you factor out the notion of actually being in the cityside of Detroit.

dodgerfanjohn says

I assure you that I am not.

Your assurance means nothing. Your statement is based on bigotry and a lack of understanding of technology.

A robotic police officer would never need to kill a criminal except maybe in a hostage situation. The criminal could not harm the robotic cop and the robot could easily use non-lethal force to subdue the criminal.

Furthermore, 90% of the African American population in Detriot are not violent criminals. That's just racist bullshit.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

People in Detroit don't need houses. They just need more Freedom to carry guns. And lower taxes.

They need ballot access too

marcus says

THis is communist talk.

Total communism! State solution to Detroit: State initiative (STIMULUS!), State education, state subsidies