Recession Hits Detroit Hard

At this year's Final Four basketball games, Chris Wragge speaks with this week's "Early Line" panel in Detroit, as this once-profitable city now faces massive setbacks as a result of the recession.

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[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

If only there was more of a way to exploit these student athletes to stimulate the economy!

[tjtube65]

GIVE the auto industry UP! They are THROUGH!!!!!!

Get off of that auto industry dependency and face reality - THEY ARE NOT COMING BACK. PERIOD!!!!

[AmericanMale1953]

@eslowiczek Hey I am patriotic, I have been buying Detroit steel for over 30 years but if you are trying to compare a German made car to that crap that is coming out of Detroit? We need unions to produce mediocre cars? STUPID! UAW workers need to get off the drugs and stupidity and start having a work ethic like the Asians do before it is TOO late! I love America but we got a serious culture problem in this country. WAKEUP!

[eslowiczek]

@AmericanMale1953 Detroit junk? Did you know that JD Power ranks Ford, Cadillac, Hummer, Buick, GMC, Chrysler, Chevorlet, Saturn, and Lincoln all higher in dependency than BMW?

[eslowiczek]

@janetwon You are right. What do economic analysts know when economic questions could be answered by just asking "janetwon" with his vast amount of experience in such matters.

[eslowiczek]

@tjtube65 Look's like you have been proved wrong.

[janetwon]

they talk like Detroit might turn around " Dumb-asses" have you ever heard the saying "you've made your bed now lie in it" !!!

[AmericanMale1953]

I also have always bought GM or Ford products, but seriously they can only compete only in the production auto category at best. They should have given you a lot more for your hard-earned $. My God, how much money have they been paid? They are in bed with Wall street and the politicians. Let me ask you a question: Do you really think they eat in a fast-food restaurant as much as we have to? Do not be fooled, that is how they got your money in the first place. Just another layer of takeola!

[AmericanMale1953]

I was union, AFL & UAW. Never got one raise, always paid dues! The last thing is we need is another Ponzi scheme. Why do you need Union protection? Has it helped Detroit? The place will NEVER recover. The germans build BGWs without unions. Want to compare a low cost BMW with the inferior Detroit junk? I believe in America, I worked in the steel miils in Cleveland. When I moved South, (Atlanta) I made 3 times more that I did in Cleveland without Unions.

[EMUmonster]

So the unions are all to blame for this recession? Last time I checked no one was buying ANY American made products including our cars. How about those fuckers on wall street and those damn banks giving loans to people they knew wouldnt afford and foreclose. How about our government for pissing away money. Are the unions here the greatest No, but are they ones solely to blame, no. Who has more power, Wall street, or the UAW? And I never bit off more than I could chew, and always bought USA made.

[AmericanMale1953]

You idiots that support the Moron Unions that did this to you.When Henry ran things it was wonderful.

What decisions did YOU make to aid the cause of this huge demise?

[AmericanMale1953]

Nationalism