Joe Biden discovers just how amazing Detroit is.
Joe Biden is in Detroit today to talk about how Detroit is back from the dead, and ostensibly about how amazing unions are for the American worker. According to the press releases, Joe is going to wax poetic about how Detroit was once a festering hole in the ground, suffering at the mercy of mean old capitalists who drove the car companies into bankruptcy, but it was rescued from it’s descent into madness and Thunderdome by a caring and compassionate Obama administration, who threw millions of taxpayer dollars at the mis-managed General Motors in an attempt to save thousands of union voters…er…jobs.
Luckily, Joe Biden seems to have a sense of irony.
Because so does Detroit.
A U-Haul being used by the secret service for Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to the Labor Day Rally in Detroit on Monday was stolen out of a hotel parking lot Sunday morning.
The U-Haul was stolen form the Holiday Inn parking lot in downtown Detroit on Washington Boulevard.
The hotel has declined to comment.
Look. I grew up in Detroit. A couple of million dollars to a car company (that borrowed even more tax dollars to “pay their loan back”) isn’t gonna save a city that has more crack houses than able-bodies workers, and more wild dogs than new ideas. Detroit has suffered from half a century of poor leadership, from jerks who bulldozed functioning black neighborhoods in the sixties in favor of project housing, to Coleman Young who spewed so much anti-white hatred at the suburbs they kept moving the borders further and further out, to mid-90s car companies so convinced that gas-guzzling SUVs were the wave of the future that they made deals with union devils that paid 95% pensions and $30 an hour for workers to sleep. Detroit isn’t going to be rescued by hope and change.
An atom bomb that forces the population to scatter and the city to rebuild, maybe, but not an empty suit with platitudes about glowing days ahead. Bears are moving back into the city. You can buy a house for less than it costs to buy a car. In the public school book depository, the books are turning back into trees. I’m not saying Joe Biden deserved to have his Secret Service van stolen, but I am saying that maybe, just maybe, they shouldn’t haven’t their goddam Labor Day celebration in a city that hires more people to shoe horses than it does to oversee it’s economic future.
(And shockingly, the horseshoe-er is a AFSCME union worker).
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I can take care of the bear problem …
A vibrant art community, some vegetable gardens, and high-speed rail is all Detroit really needs .. and these matches, and the remote control, and the paddle ball… and this lamp.
Hahahaha. YES. Let’s allow artists to rent “lofts” in “empty warehouses” for free in Midtown! That will turn our city around! GENTRIFICATION BY WHITE HIPSTERS.
Joe Biden is the Detroit of vice presidents.
Actually, the American people already got their money back. In an industry with multiple supplier levels, dealerships and that employs hundreds of thousands – every spent dollar is taxed a dozen times. All of that is more documented than the financial industry. When you consider it starts with GM and Chrysler with combined revenues of over $350 billion a year and over 90% of that is spent on the automotive operative cost then the government would of thrown away 10 times the amount invested every year to lost tax revenue……and it’s a loan……and a complete success. All the whining is a silly distraction.
Ford and hundreds of supplier companies in Metro Detroit would’ve been finished too.
That’s why foreign governments want the automotive business and they understand the “Law of Money.”
It’s not all about speculative stock prices.
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Dave,
Hey tough guy, the election is over.
You can stop with the silly propaganda and insidious Democrat math.
“2 + 2 = 5″ may have fooled 51% of the country, but it doesn’t add up with the rest of us.
Then again, we’re the percentage of the electorate who can balance our checkbooks without hand-outs, freebies, and subsidies from Uncle Sam.
Just remember, Uncle Sam is our Uncle—he’s not our Daddy.
Just standing up for my hometown.
I have a degree in economics and have run my own business profitably for 15 years, which have offices coast-to-coast specializing in exo-skeleton attached bionic arms.
You can’t ignore the basic “Law of Money” which it is simple science. However, “ten times” might be an overestimate but not so much in the automotive industry with it’s tight margins. The finance industry freezes up money in long term savings, etc. So that money spent to automotive was more efficiently spent than to some other industries.
The US automotive industry has also driven the US Economy for over a century so maybe their “your Daddy” by previously feeding the government for so many years. LOL
You’re just standing up for your hometown ?
How about standing up for facts and truth ?…and math ?
Someone has to stand up for math !
The bailout for GM and Chrysler was a scam. The taxpayers haven’t been paid back—it’s all a lie and a shell game.
Actually, Mr. Econ Major, the oil industry is the f’in engine of this country, if I can use an automotive metaphor.
You left wing moochers should be bowing down to the oil industry. Without them, your hunks of junk can’t move….you know, think of oil as taxpayer money—without it, your jackwagons can’t do anything.
Seriously, for an industry that’s been around for a century, it sure is peculiar that taxpayer money is needed.
But hey, to paraphrase your beloved Obamessiah, “You know those roads and bridges—you didn’t build that !”
By the way, how are you liking those new taxes on medical devices ?!