Detroiters offer their thoughts on a Light Rail for the city

[siuwed]

Light rail will greatly benefit Detroit since criminals will be able to get to the suburbs where the money is much more easily. They only need to build it one way going out of the city, since they'll be driving back in cars they steal. All these jacks in this video are drooling over the kickbacks and taxpayer money they will steal.

[MyKevinChicago]

shut your prejudice stereotypical ass up.

[siuwed]

@MyKevinChicago Now there's a productive comment.  Not really sure how mentioning criminals is prejudice or stereotypical unless you are one.

[MyKevinChicago]

@siuwed

let me tell you a story. I was seeing a friend at his business celebration, and I was the only black guy. this broad took one look at me, and went to grab her shit real quick like I was gonna steal it. all y'all white asses are prejudice, except my friends, my white friends love me, I went to go visit them the other day, and when it was time for me to go, they really didn't want me to go.

so are you stuck in the 60's or are you just asshole?

You're welcome.... :)

[siuwed]

@MyKevinChicago I grew up right where they want to build this train, I know the truth. As for your problems with "White Asses", maybe YOU are the racist you like to accuse others of being. I don't refer to any of my friends by the color of their skin, so now who's the asshole? But when I watch the news and see killings, robberies, riots and looting, it's pretty sad that it does seem to be one race disproportionately doing most of it, can you guess which one?. You're Welcome right back. =-)

[troybrownrigg]

They should give awy those old home to people who would fix them up. An incentive would be reduced or free property taxes for a period of time.

[AllfatherGuideUs]

Don't be racist, calling black people "detroiters"

[pure1959]

How RIDICULOUS!

I live in the uk and watch a lot of stuff about motor city even i can see this is a big mistake!

Why does Detroit need this?

Theres got to be a more viable way of spending money in her than this!

[Sandline99]

Good idea. Too bad there's no money left.

[VisorTM]

transport WHOM? fuck you!

[rodeocowboy]

Liberalism is a mental disorder and Flint and Detroit are the insane asylums. 

[TheRealmsOfGold]

@rodeocowboy: You're uninformed. I'm a social democrat, about as left as you can get without abandoning capitalism, and even I think this is a horrible idea. Light rail is crucial to any thriving city, but Detroit just doesn't have the money for it right now. Its schools, police, hospitals, and neighborhoods need help before they can put in infrastructure like this.

[zipacna1980]

Looks like their liberalism is a desease. They are lost zombies. Detroit is only needs a 20 megaton nuke for renewal.

[TheRealmsOfGold]

@zipacna1980: What a horrible thing to say! Detroit is a beautiful city. In the past, good leadership helped it grow, building everything from its stunning architecture to the industry that, in turn, built the nation. Now, a partnership between bad government and bad capitalism has allowed for international trade agreements that ruin U.S. manufacturing.

Detroit represents the whole rust belt and the whole country. We need development where it counts, and that can come from smart government.

[zipacna1980]

@TheRealmsOfGold Isn't it too socialist to wait for a 'smart government' to get rid of 'bad capitalism'? Guess why business moving to China or India? They don't have that greedy unions. Red China is less communist than Michigan!

Don't wait for a good government to come. Fix your own neighbourhood!

[TheRealmsOfGold]

@zipacna1980 Thanks for writing back :-) Business is moving to China and India because nobody protects their workers. In the US, unions can easily be corrupted, but nobody else will fight for basic human dignity for the lower classes: health care, pensions, things we all hope to have. A government's purpose is to help its people: we need to refuse treaties that require low international tariffs, thereby recreating the domestic manufacturing market. I'll fix the neighborhood by voting for that!

[zipacna1980]

@TheRealmsOfGold And what if foreign nations to refuse free trading US products? That is protectionism and it is against liberty.

If unions wants to protect US industry they have to work on improving work ethics instead of health care and pensions to make US worker produce more added value that Chinese do.

[TheRealmsOfGold]

@zipacna1980: I'm not sure I understand your last comment—your language seems a little garbled (no offense!)—but are you saying that it's against liberty, on principle, to refuse completely free trade? That's certainly true, in a sense. But there's no single liberty, and one comes at the price of another. Thousands of people are barred from the freedom to pursue their own American dream because one policy-maker demanded the freedom to trade with countries that sell cheaper goods...

[TheRealmsOfGold]

...as for me, I'd gladly give up the freedom to buy the cheapest product possible if it meant that my extra dollar helps keep jobs at home. We're lucky the US allows good labor laws at all—I want the workers who build my house and cars and roads to be fed well too! Plus, Keynesian economics demonstrates how this helps all of us.

As for the value of a product, work ethics isn't all of it, though workplace morale is critical. (See Henry Ford I for a great example!) But price overrules everything.

[tadsgirl]

Buses do the same thing as this light rail and cost no where near what this cost.

How about taking some of that money and buy ambulances or graze some abandoned houses?

[brummy3]

Sounds just like when they built Comerica Park, the RenCen, the casinos--probably could list off many other things that were all supposed to "spur economic growth"--yeah suuuuure it does...

[machwon]

Whats the point of easing traffic to Detroit when no one wants to go there?

[pfn]

Idiots....all of them.

[ShortBusDriver4u]

I hope that it would go all the way to Pontiac

[dmax5678]

i have heard that there are plans for that