Detroit Is Dying

[externalpower]

thanx a lot republicans your plan worked. you have all the money.

[leaturk11]

this is america's future

[hologramaet]

asi es como el capitalismo terrorista agradece los servicios prestados

[hologramaet]

VEAN

REGARDEZ

KIJK

WATCH

esto

es lo que nos espera a todos en el mundo capitalismo

[Tenolin]

It's not just Detroit, It's all over the USA. All the idiots that are for free trade can now stand up and bow. Your mission is accomplished.

[TheFelixxRevolution]

where is the first pic taken from? i knew it was bad but my god it looks like africa

[TheJomogogo]

@TheFelixxRevolution

that's because detroit is 90% negro. every place inhabited by africans eventually becomes like africa.

[newyorkcat]

@TheFelixxRevolution -- favellas in the foreground photoshopped (probably sao paulo?) -- anyway that view of downtown detroit is from windsor Ontario. Detroit does NOT look like that, it's mainly collapsing houses, abandoned buildings, huge blocks of grass, sometimes one house still standing. No favellas.

Wildlife should be returning I would think, eventually. I like this song.

[gamehound83]

@TheFelixxRevolution No Africa has celebrity's raising money for it

America is told to go fuck itself. I say the same to the celebrity's

[truedanielg]

@gamehound83 I couldn't agree more.

[DrCruel]

Toyota builds cars in the US - quality cars - and makes a substantial profit doing it, while paying their workers a decent wage. The difference is that Toyota won't allow a US-style union in their plants. If a US union manages to unionize a shop floor in a Toyota plant, the management lays off all the workers at that factory, closes the doors and moves elsewhere.

[gamehound83]

@DrCruel I but Cadillac but admit what you said is true. Think Toyota bought the transportation department with that report absolving them of electrical problems?

[Janusha]

Gm alone left 90 !!! factories in greater Michigan when they downsized from 80 000 to 7000 workers, Todays GM cars are largely built in mexico, Japan, Canada and mostly korea.

[dirtygreendetroit]

you could take pictures of renovations, gardens, artist studios.. a whole movement going on. if you continue to produce, watch and believe videos created by people fascinated with abandoned buildings y0u will miss the true movement in detroit.

[TheYankee228]

As long as the MAN can have fools blaming one another (blacks etc) they win. They don't show it on news ---but EVERY town is dying. Check PA --Bethlehem Steel once employed 25,000 it's now a damn CASINO and shopping mall. You don't support a country on a prison industry - garbage industry - and gambling. Google Bye Bye Miss American Pie - Judith Moriarty and Who's Watching the Watchers to get REAL INSIGHT.

[21mschul]

Should be Called Dying in America., nothin to do with NIGGA's.. Dont you realize the whole country will go down with the NWO and a central Bank ?? Been in the plans since the beginning of this Century.. Greedy CEO, EXECs Politicians will take over all one day. Constitution its been fucked You cannot name a single state that hasn't seen unemployment.and death to the middle class. One world Bank will live on forever. Time for Revolution 9. Play it backwords. Says CEO is a dead man...

[YAHWEHisperfect]

it's a great example why not to trust satan run egypt....

walk in the Way of Yahweh...it leads to Life

[dtwmtl]

of course detroit is dying. You dumbfuck niggers, wiggers have ruined the city. As far as the auto industry is conserned, you bastards always wanted the U.A.W. by your side! So the fuck what. Those lowlifes stuffed their pockets with the dues you ignorant pigs were paying. Even I, as a manufacturer, would shut down plants and move them abroad because I could not be competetive...

[MO4B]

america fail

[zliminator]

The auto assembly line scene at the end looks like something from Russia or Yugoslavia.

[zliminator]

The car assy. line scene at the end looks like something from Russia or Yugoslavia.

[zliminator]

I remember hearing from an autoworker in Muscle Shoals AL that when they (the workers) don't get what they want they would put paper cups in the pistons and coke bottles in the doors. That was in '79. I bet they don't do that anymore. I like this song.

[buschnic61]

Right on -johnr-everyones head is buried in the vortex of media shit stirring and they don't have a clue.I'ts just too easy in an instant gratification world to rely on they're remote control to satisfy their zero fucking attention spans-politicians bank on stupid-so do banks-record labels etc..anyway,the good people of Detroit are the best people anywhere.And the musicians from there don't fuck around.

[cjzzzzz]

sorry mf's

[donzaliko]

this is men made crisis

because GM wants to pay few money to workers

this is bad but american cars are expensive

[CrazyChitTV]

I grew up north of Detroit... this is not Detroit's skyline... not even close lol. It's probably Jo-berg South Africa.

[kingkrash11]

@CrazyChitTV WINDSOR?

[preciousprecious100]

lol the white man wit all the money

[Seattlecarnut]

Whether Detroit becomes a great city again depends on several factors.

[DammitDrag]

@Seattlecarnut if the niggers all die or leave it MIGHT come back.

[LendMeYourHand]

@DammitDrag If you die things will get better, so please hurry up.

[MaidenUtah1]

You done chased the evil white man out of Detroit! You're now +80% black (ooops, I meant African-American)! There's hardly an evil republican any where near you, Detroit! I would've thought that the fist shaking promises from the likes of Spike Lee, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton would make this city a veritable Garden of Eden!

Hey, if any of you need me, I'll be watching Hank Williams Jr's "Country Boys Can Survive" video......

[johnrhenrysr]

@MaidenUtah1 you make all of us in rural America look like a bigot. The poor in the trailer park down the street are in the same situation. The Bankers lead by the crooked Federal Reserve are to blame not Democrats or Republicans. The elites just want us to fight about stupid shit while they steal all the wealth and off shore it. Wake up

[saintmj57]

how ignorant these comments are.....smh.....new york survives and thrives BECAUSE of the diversity of jobs and people...and btw has always been historicly DEMOCRATIC....

[Ocala92RTTT]

@saintmj57 took a republican to clean up new york didnt it? and jersey was run by dems and now a republican ( conservative) is there to clean up the mess also .

[jdfred1970]

good video, all sad but true , dying my ass, been dead along time m we could change it but no one gives a fuck enough to do shit about it . whine on here but then go bk to our lives ? wtf good is doin, it needs to be fixed

[TheMidcoast1]

c its just awful how you closet racist respond to an Am. city going under. and if you all dont think this is going to happen to your neck of the woods ...uh think agan. Det. was also sanctioned by racist folks with a supremacy attitudes. Tax base move out.Investments, new developments were kept from the city for the mere fact that its main pop. was blk. organized gangs not as much of a prob here as Chi, LA. r own media did us in

[xXLithiumAngelXx]

this will eventually happen to new york then new jersey then any other state just becuse of gang related activity... its so stupid to ruin a beautifull city..it really is truely sad

[quatlen]

@xXLithiumAngelXx, This isn't because of gang activity, if these people had jobs then they would have money for homes and then their homes wouldn't be in ruins. Gang activity increased because there were no jobs. The City is also to blame because look at the schools, more kids end up in jail then graduate and no money is funded to these schools. Detroit has plans to demolish almost half the city or over 10,000 buildings don't expect that to happen to the New York area.

[quatlen]

@xXLithiumAngelXx, This isn't because of gang activity, if these people had jobs then they would have money for homes and then their homes wouldn't be in ruins. Gang activity increased because there were no jobs. The City is also to blame because look at the schools, more kids end up in jail then graduate and no money is funded to these schools. Detroit has plans to demolish almost half the city or over 10,000 buildings don't expect that to happen to the New York area.

[stealth551]

Chernobyl' worse by a long shot

[StanHowse]

@stealth551 You're an idiot OF COURSE IT IS they CAN'T go back there RADIATION makes sure no one goes back NO SHIT it's worse off.

[jd2476]

This is very obvious-Detroit is mostly blue collar black population. No city can survive with that. Shut the shithole down and blow it up and start from scratch.

[jeffsemore]

you can't let liberal democrats run a pay toilet ,let alon a city...i just hope that all the refuges go south

[jeffsemore]

you can't let liberal democrats run a pay toilet ,let alon a city...i just hope that all the refuges go south

[homehazard]

nobody wants to care. if they did they would feel compelled to act and renounce our national leadership (economic policies) also why should they care? Could it be a contributing factor that socialist policies by its local government were anti-business and overwhelmingly enabling to a whole new sub class of welfare recipients? one one hand--this city has gotten exactly what it deserves, destitute poverty and hopelessness; on the other hand capitalism is demonstrated as a fail

[cantstop19boyz]

in the beging..are these slums

[AtlasObjectivist]

Dying? LOL - it's dead after 40 plus years of total democratic liberal rule.

[Headshot426]

The people that live in that city have been voting in crooks into office for 40 years.

It started with Coleman Young, and still continues today with the ridiculous re-election of Kwame Kilpatrick.

The blacks of Detroit are racist, and have reaped every bit of what they've sowed. HELP?? They can begin by helping themselves and actually start valuing education.

[Headshot426]

The people that live in that city have been voting in crooks into office for 40 years.

It started with Coleman Young, and still continues today with the ridiculous re-election of Kwame Kilpatrick.

The blacks of Detroit are racist, and have reaped every bit of what they've sowed. HELP??? They could begin by helping themselves.

[soulwam]

Good stuff. An arttist's impression of a season of sadness, and never, of course, intended to be a documentary. Thanks for sharing.

[LordoftheKaty]

lol, thats a good answer.

[dwstick]

It is dying. The population is only about 1/2 what it was back in the 1950's. I've heard that in some of the abandoned areas of the city, wild animals (deer, bear, etc) are starting to move back in.

[Tankboy26]

Have we forgotten about Detroit? What has happened to our once great industrial center of the country? Its breathing its final gasps of breath... It may be the first great city to fall, but it certainly wont be the last... I weep for America.

[gregsandiego]

There are better documentaries on Detroit. But this music is definitely most fitting.

[Ukrainatrain]

pretty cool montage of images as far as an artistic achievement, but really, to your point, Detroit has been downsizing for abouut what, 50 years now? give up the old cliche and show real Detroit for a change...

[naydah]

If u say that left wing ( democrates ) and UAW destroyed this magnificent city WHY american ppl choosed democrate for president ?

[Serjith]

@naydah

are you dumb?

[BlackDongs2Dextreme]

Detroit is dead care of the UAW

[DammitDrag]

Detroit is dead thanks to the U.A.W., Democratic mayors,people taking and never giving back, and gangs.

[paisan357]

I am serious about my town. But it has gotten so severe, what can we really do??? Now that the Kilpatrick regime is gone, we can heal and stand up, and show the country what we Detroiters are really made of.

[ZeppelinFreak13]

Im from Detroit, I grew up their and im DAMN PROUD to say i grew up their!

[globehunter2]

Poverty can touch anyone! and fear of losing every thing you worked for? can bring you sleepless nights. I f you can put a piece of bread on your table` the how can you have peace of mind.Homelessness

is now becoming

the new land scape

of America.

God save us all

[packingone]

Other countries like to laugh at the American situation now but they didn't laugh when they were crying to us for help of food , medical supplies or liberating them from tyrants. We need to quit sending all this aid and spend it on our own peoples and economy.

[comanderfritz]

Thank the UAW and left wing policies...

[laford1986]

FSTWRTR I cannot agree with you more. I work for TOYOTA, (master tech), and the CEO's playing golf making 2.7 million annually, had no idea that AMERICAN cars were not selling... It is sad but, the UAW has ruined the American car forever...

[youngmoneyrealist05]

@laford1986 but yeah toyota is now going down the drain as well now maybe american cars can come back

[Ukrainatrain]

Right now actually Toyota is in trouble more than anyone, although I do agree that its a good thing that GM has gotten from underneath the grips of UAW through bankruptcy..

[fstwrtr]

" Detroit is dying" Brought to you by your friendly UAW, the same folks who invented the 50k a year windshield wiper installer with lifetime benefit packages( because they were just trying to feed their families! ). and the entitlement mentality. But please, don't let me interrupt your victim status.. please continue.

[MYFreeSpeach4U]

If you had a small plane, You could see 500,000 Cars being openlyed stored, There stored in Gravel pits around Detroit area, Like 30-50 mile range, 07,08, I don't have any ideas of the 09 yet, But they will have to go somewhere.

[lutrix86]

wow really sad ive been there a few times i did notice when i went there for a wrestling event that soon as u leave downtown there were alot and i mean alot of run down buildings and burned down houses i lke detroit tho there are some good ppl there no matter what color they were. This isnt just a detroit problem neither alot of cities have huge unemployment rates unfortunately thats america right now but things will look up theres only one way left to go and thats up

[SchwarzundWeis]

the american car industry is dying, just as it happend in england 30-40 years ago. soon there wont be an american car industry of this size anymore

[aud10man1ak]

Very interesting to see America on the other side, poor America. I live in Ukraine and information comes to me through the movies, but they show only the rich in America. In Ukraine, we have rich and poor people but the contrast we have not as high.

[mac423]

yes my friend, we are americas dirty little secret. were not glamorous enough to make a B.S. hollywood movie about... Our country continues to send billions in aid around the world, yet some of our own citizens still have to rely upon a soup kitchen for food.. the great hypocricy.

[aud10man1ak]

Very interesting to see America on the other side, poor America. I live in Ukraine and information comes to me through the movies, but they show only the rich in America. In Ukraine, we have rich and poor people but the contrast we have not as high.

[aud10man1ak]

Very interesting to see America on the other side, poor America. I live in Ukraine and information comes to me through the movies, but they show only the rich in America. In Ukraine, we have rich and poor people but the contrast we have not as high.

[KwameKillpatrick]

I challenge these artist to show the beautiful Detroit. Show the good that goes on. I love Detroit. I always will.

[KwameKillpatrick]

Interesting-What about the Super Bowl, Major League Baseball All-Star Game, The Grand Prix, The Red Bull Air Race, The festivals in the Plaza, the downtown concerts, Belle Ise, The Detroit Zoo, Yeah, Detroit is Dying, And I killed it-yeah right. DETROIT IS DEAD, LONG LIVE DETROIT

[KwameKillpatrick]

*Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is being called a hypocrite after using the N-word while speaking to reporters about his treatment since sexually-explicit text messages he sent to his former aide came to light. "In the past 30 days, I've been called a nigger more than anytime in my entire life," said Kilpatrick, 37. "In the past three days, Ive received more death threats than I have in my entire administration."

Detroit is dying yall' killed it. Detroit is Dead! Long Live the D

[faeyth28]

Detroit problem is urban sprawl

[Jamerican28]

Sad.

[ZetanCrisp]

Where are all the cars built now?

[Jamerican28]

Some in Detroit but most of the jobs have been outsourced to China, Mexico, etc...

[RickBeall]

Great music. Powerful video.

[BigBishop1]

walmartization

[markdtown]

FUCK anyone who never grew up here. You dont know what really happen here. And the economy is bad everywhere. And most of these comments are from people that never walked these streets.

[markdtown]

Ok fuck anyone who is not from here but loves to talk about us. The "D" is down but my people are still making it everyday. DETROIT STAND UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Valetudo21]

Stand up and take the "free money" that comes from the rest of the country. From people who are responsible and work hard, save, and pay taxes so your "people" can stand up.

[fuklibs]

All you need to know is who took over running the City, corrupt black Democrats.

Looks a lot like Africa doesn't it?

[Valetudo21]

yep

[NiveusStolz4]

nigger-bombs kill Humans and society they create.

[whoyoube305]

the emptier the beter

[joeeeeeeeeeewww]

i work about 11 miles outside of detroit...i think it's gonna be a ghost town in 5 years

[isgoodno]

fucking niggers.

[EdM021]

It's not just the criminal elements and the welfare trash (of course YOU mean all African Americans!). It's also the Big 3 Management and Unions and most especially, TPTB and their tools in Washington, DC on both sides of the aisle. None of this would ever had happened had we used our oil wisely, lived peacefully with other nations and refused to engage in "free trade."

[markdtown]

If you are white you have no common sense. If you are black, well you already know.

[MrTabby5000]

Just keep buying to chink,gook and spic junk products.

[macdogq]

Today Detroit tommorrow the U.S.

[rockerpainter]

wow. just wow. what a shame

[Marly61]

ffff

[Marly61]

Is that a real photograph of Detroit? Say it aint so! I want to go to the street and get justice if it is!

Please inform me if this is a real photograph or if anyone has seen this.

[Marly61]

Is that a real photograph of Detroit? Say it aint so! I want to go to the street and get justice if it is!

Please inform me if this is a real photograph or if anyone has seen this.

[Marly61]

Is that a real photograph of Detroit? Say it aint so! I want to go to the street and get justice if it is!

Please inform me if this is a real photograph or if anyone has seen this.

[Marly61]

Is this a real photograph of Detroit? Say it aint so! It looks like Soweto in South Africa!

Please inform me, stop me from going to the street and getting justice!

[newyorkcat]

what is this fantastic song? whew

[studape]

the rich got trade agreements to gut america for more personal profit while we the peole got greif,war ,death,pestilence,despair

Stand up people!

Teas baggers,please, do not follow the corporate puppetmasters stand with the people for whats right!

[Marly61]

Is that a real photograph of Detroit? Say it aint so! I want to go to the street and get justice if it is!

Please inform me if this is a real photograph or if anyone has seen this.

[woobstoob]

It's the people you vote for who have done this..when has Detroit ever been run by Conservatives.. It's 100% Liberal ideaology that has caused this huge mess!

[EdM021]

Phoenix, Arizona, has never voted Liberal... always 100% Conservative ideology. Yet it's in a predicament as well and like Detroit, it will soon dry up and blow away.

[es4800]

dat pic 4rom 0 - 00:20 is NOT Detroit I think dats a city in hong kong or India if I aint mistaken

[Diabolik771]

They can grind the people up who live there and make Alpo out of them, probably get 13 cents a pound!! Ain't no use for them.

[remnant1978]

folks....put the guns down! step away from the cliff! Stop crocheting that noose! America is fallen...this was prophesied in the 60's already! remove God from your schools and courts...now he is watching from a galaxy away with his hands folded....God will not be mocked....The kingdoms of this world are becoming the kingdom of our Lord and his Christ.

[aznfire5]

Dead wrong, Gm fucked up in detroit and invested abroad instead of their own country, Gm killed Detroit, it has nothing to do with people of different ethnicity, property value will never decrease because of people with different skin color, what do they teach you in school?

[DarwinianResults9684]

What killed detroit is unreasonably high labor costs driven by socialistis idealogy, the unions the welfare, the lack of a requirement to produce on the individual level. Over regulation that took the money from the pocket of the inventors..so they left. They are still making the money but the jerks who ran it into the ground are now jobless, homeless displaced. A perfect lesson for capitalism vs socialism. Symbiotic works, parasitic doesn't, bye bye Detroit.

[Marly61]

No intelligent person believes you

[Eddie92777]

oh i like that part where it shows the poor ole nigger skinny and crying cause they were layed off but the white man is throwing money lol what a joke.. all the industries workers were mixed raced not just black.

[buddyboy55]

The riots killed Detroit...

[nejihyuuga000]

well thats half of the reason....other half is poor economy...it all added up...race isnt the issue its just a sub issue which is caused by the riots and economy

[macdogq]

Today detroit, Tommorrow the USA.

[hockeyplaya95]

So true,everybody think this is only a Detroit problem,but soon the whole country will be unemployed and as rough as Detroit.

[donttelluseene]

Isnt Detriot where they are renameing their gas stations Obama gas? I think its funny. Obama will be your savior! Hes your knight in shining armor. He will SAVE DETRIOT!

[SaintsRowX2]

ya we got gas station with the name Obama idk why or how but its weird to me but o well

[uman184]

he aint gonnoa do shit

[NotASheep]

It saddens and sickens me to see what my once great city has become....

[bestwayusa1]

check out John Riches shutten down detroit and the ibuyusa video on you tube the guy has great words. We cant be sheep and spellbound anymore by deceitful politicians, media, and forieign unfair trading countries wich are paying and owning these peoples greedy souls.They are not American Patriots They are about me not We.Support Fair trade Domestic owned. BUY USA on line and at stores. Country First !!!

[Harmonijak]

If the next James Bond movie were to be set in Detroit, this would make a perfect intro.

[SILLYHORE]

The lazy Union Employees who used to nap instead of work are to blame as much as any corrupt CEO. The woes of American Industry are multi layered but ultimately always greed corruption and a lack of fiscal responsibility and looking to the future. Top Heavy Unions Bottom Heavy politicians or fat ass CEOs

Detroit problem has always been too many unruly blacks in the area Detroit was a cesspool in the 1970's anyone planning a trip to Michigan was told to bypass Detroits criminal element

[macdogq]

well said!!

[RONVK]

Could'nt have worded it better myself.The days of everyone working here is gone forever,I'll probably leave to seek a better life for my children.Its really sad that it has come to this.

[DarwinianResults9684]

What you can thank for this is mobs of people undermining private industry by forcing industry to accept unreasonable wages which forces investors to leave resulting in the inevitable migration of production to other places.

[Marly61]

Darwinian,

You really believe the automobile industry is private industry?

After the Second World War, it was well understood in the business world that they were going to have to have state coordination, subsidy, and a kind of socialization of costs and risks. The only question was how to do that. The method that was hit upon pretty quickly was the "Pentagon system" (including the DOE, AEC, NASA).

[rockerpainter]

too bad those in 'charge' didn't see this and stop it before it was too late.

i was born here, but i'll never return.

[perspektuv]

Excellently done. You've captured one aspect of Detroit magnificiently. I was born in the city in the 1950's and have seen so many changes. It will turn around but not any time soon, sadly until then there will those who suffer emensly. Jobs need to be brought back to the cities.

[RedboneLadyT]

Great work! Lovely song & songstress.

[trapalleiro]

What's he name of this song and who sings it? It's brilliant!

[bartjebeltegoed]

Agree, nice song!