Detroiters offer their thoughts on a Light Rail for the city

Detroit mayoral candidates and business owners give their thoughts on a light rail for Detroit.

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[pfn]

Idiots....all of them.

[machwon]

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

[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. =-)

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

[MyKevinChicago]

shut your prejudice stereotypical ass up.

[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.

[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"

[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.

[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...

[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.