detroit an average of 58 minutes to respond to the call. just under 80,000 city structures have been abandoned. detroit was once the leading edge of america and now the bad news, it still is. take a good look at detroit in all of its former glory and current gore, and it was on the front of america s trends, it still is. detroit is today what the rest of america is on track to being in another 20 years. reckless spending and corrupt government and demands from those who are dependent and never say no. if we don t learn from detroit s collapse, the rest of america will be the next chapter.
completely unworkable it would be to implement it to law. it locks like president obama is realizing what we have known all along. obama care is unworkable and they will not be able to implement it and harmful to employees and workers in this country. look at what the national labor unions said this week. it will be a disaster, a nightmare for the average every day worker harming the health care system and harming their ability to have a 40 hour work week. we just have been talking about detroit earlier. texas had the opposite experience of detroit. you have business beaming and unemployment rate beats that of the national ang. you have sewn the plight of detroit, largest city to go bankrupt. maybe you ought to offer them advice. what would it be with governor
neighborhood. downtown, but what about the people living outside of downtown. no one to come cut the grass. i sick and tired of the administration and time for a whole clean slate. you can t take the homeless situation. we put them out in the streets. it is not in the country but in the world. joining me now, congressman danna robocker. and good to have you guys back. this breaks my heart about detroit. i love detroit and people of mesh mish are wonderful. and now it is in tatters. you know, president obama, i want to play a clip because i think it is significant. this is what president obama said about detroit a year ago.
ruined by corruption of the local government and union demands for a bigger piece of a shrinking poi. the city s government didn t have the will to reign in the corruption or the guts to say no to the unions and that took them to chapter nine bankruptcy. the saddest part of the detroit story, not that it is a failed city who couldn t. it is the story of one of the world s great and most successful city and was willing to sell its soul for lesser things and tolerate unthinkable things. the unemployment rate tripled and street lights don t work regularly than the people. 40 percent of the street lights stay dark. and for 20 years tis considered one of america s most dangerous cities and takes police in
and heavy lifting creating the happy days in which baby boomers like me were born and middle-class that gave steps to climb beyond the poverty and pain of war. nchapter 6 was detroit s contribution of the culture and the grown house and immortal moves of bare goredy s motown sound and nudgent and mcfoif and america s pop culture and influenced and if not shaped as much as our taste for tires and chrome seats. and america was rocked by the race riots of the 60s and the pollerization and the beginning of the population decloin. chapter eight, detroit utterly