tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post3072985153037183135..comments2023-11-03T03:52:37.873-05:00Comments on Cognitive Dissidence: The Hostile Takeover Of DetroitSomebody DO Something!http://www.blogger.com/profile/08717747685928127724noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-5204988660685822332013-03-02T19:11:20.372-06:002013-03-02T19:11:20.372-06:00How do people not vet these guys? Rick Snyder ran ...How do people not vet these guys? Rick Snyder ran Gateway Computers into the ground and sold it to the Chinese, outsourcing everything all the way. Scott Walker has never held a paid private sector job in his life and has sucked off the teat of the government that he professes to hate. Rick Scott was convicted of Medicare fraud, and John Kasich was a typical Republican hack house member who accomplished little. And don't forget self made by marriage Ron Johnson. The fact that any one of these incompetents was elected to high office confirms A) that corporate media propaganda works, or B) the electorate is made up of morons, or C) Combination of A and B. The whole thing just floors me that these people can even get voted in. They make Bush II look like a competent and educated leader.Joshua Skolnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03429086776789822611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-41442781689356363152013-03-01T09:35:02.720-06:002013-03-01T09:35:02.720-06:00One of the more obscene possibilities is the sale ...One of the more obscene possibilities is the sale of Belle Isle public park to private investors, who will create a Libertarian paradise.<br /><br />http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130112/BIZ/301120319<br /><br /> "<i>As the broken city thinks big and radically about its future, a developer is stepping forward with a revolutionary idea: Sell the city's Belle Isle park for $1 billion to private investors who will transform it into a free-market utopia.<br /><br />The 982-acre island would then be developed into a U.S. commonwealth or city-state of 35,000 people with its own laws, customs and currency.<br /><br />City officials are likely to reject the plan. But on Jan. 21, supporters including Mackinac Center for Public Policy senior economist David Littmann, retired Chrysler President Hal Sperlich and Clark Durant, co-founder of Detroit's Cornerstone Schools, will present the Commonwealth of Belle Isle plan to a select group of movers and shakers at the tony Detroit Athletic Club.</i><br /><br /><br />Garethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-73003802336396011102013-03-01T08:51:50.902-06:002013-03-01T08:51:50.902-06:00I remember reading some time ago about the Koch br...I remember reading some time ago about the Koch brothers trying to privatize a bridge in Detroit that most traffic uses between the US and Canada. They sent out some kind of post cards telling people they had to leave their homes, that they were being foreclosed...they will do anything to move people from one place to another without regard for laws or humanity, yet people stand with Walker and these Republican brown shirts. I remember a bill being talked about a couple years ago where Walker was asking for, to declare emergency managers here, but it didn't go anywhere because WI wasn't in dire straits, but NOW he's creating the financial demise in our state, so don't be surprised to see this kind of legislation coming soon...with his brown shirts following suit. <br /><br />I really don't understand this because these officials live here along with their families, do they not think their families and friends need clean water, local foods, and great educations to feed the body and soul? <br /><br />Republicans are beyond dumb, they stand their ground for gun laws, but not clean water? dumb.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-4481699474146945432013-03-01T05:20:56.785-06:002013-03-01T05:20:56.785-06:00No one should be surprised -- they steal electons ...No one should be surprised -- they steal electons with gerrymandering and then even need secret proprietary closed voting systems that cannot be verified to "win" office.<br /><br />Until people organize boycotts of the propaganda machine and its advertisers and then demand free, open, fair, verifiable, and transparent elections we will see more of this -- much more.<br /><br />And we will see walker in the white house if the criminality behind his ascent to power does not bring him down.<br /><br />Will that happen to a klansman of the Walker/Bush family -- even one from the poor side of "herb" walker? Not likely -- prescott bush, george herbert WALKER bush, george WALKER bush were not held accontable for much higher crimes and treasons.<br /><br />If we don't take meaningful action -- dur furher walker happening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com