Saving Detroit

I do not mean the car companies, I mean the city. Never been there, just read about their plight, and roamed aroung th eplace with Google Earth, but I have some thoughts. Who knows, amybe eventually something will happen.

Clearly, there is a lack of leadership. For those who don't know, the mayor is in jail and a successor has not been elected.

It seems like the root of their problems is that there is a large proportion of lower class unskilled people who no longer have living wage jobs thanks to the demise of the auto manufacturing industry. Many hovel houses, many burned, and many abandoned. It is expensive to demolish them. Anyone with brains and or skill has left. So what to do.

It appears that there is much farm land in Michigan. So, it may be expensive to demolish on an individual basis, ten grand a building I read. But, I do not think it is so expensive to demolish on a grand scale. Here is where leadership is required. The city needs to contract. So demolish on a large scale. Not a house, but a whole neighborhood. A half dozen giant front end loaders can make many acres of farm land in a day. Farm land is no good without people to work it. But, remember the low skilled population desperate for jobs? I bet the return on the sale of produce will offset much of the costs, making it a far better deal that unemployment and welfare payments.

Its a start.

Just trying to change the worls in my spare time.

There are lots of pretty smart people here. Lets here your thoughts. How's this related to the FE? How's Bethlehem related to Chritmas?