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Obama's America will become as Detroit, with 27 percent of all homes vacant
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ May 14, 2013 01:42pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, May 14, 2013 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Our economic success has never come from the top down," President Barack Obama declared in Michigan this week. "It comes from the middle out. It comes from the bottom up." According to columnist Terence P. Jeffrey, this is just par for the course for the president. "We need to take more money from the rich, he said, or schools will not be able to afford books, students will not be able to afford college, and disabled children will not get health care." Jeffrey also finds it ironic that Obama made these comments in Michigan, as the beleaguered city of Detroit seems to be the end product of his vision.
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "If America continues down the road to Obama's America - a road that began when President Franklin Roosevelt started building a welfare state here - our entire nation will become Detroit," Jeffrey declares.
Recent news from that iconic American city has not been encouraging. Michigan's state treasurer has informed the mayor and city council that the state may soon appoint an emergency financial manager for the city. Under Michigan law, only a financial manager can begin the steps leading to a bankruptcy filing for the city.
Detroit faces obligations over the next six months that exceed its revenues by a whopping $47 million. Detroit now pays $1.08 in benefits to municipal workers and retirees for every $1.00 it pays in salary, according to newspaper reports.
"What happened to Detroit? It is achieving socialism in one city," Jeffrey says.
Jeffrey then point to the fact that traditional two-parent families and the productive taxpaying citizens they produce have fled Detroit." |
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