Beck TV: Hiroshima vs. Detroit – Which City Really Embraced the ‘American Dream’?

Feb. 28, 2011 9:15pm Meredith Jessup

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martinrnelson
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:43pm
Broker…C’mon. Regardless of the economy, morals must come first. Obama has lied, deceived and surrounds himself with those who do not favor our America. I won’t waste your time, but the campaign trail was riddled with lies that only became apparent after his oath. Whether a dem or a rep, this country needs a leader for not only economics, but honesty, integrity and most of all…Character. Obama is not that man.

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- rfycom
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 11:22am
  Both sides have lied and stolen. Don’t you get little martin the nose miner. One side is just as corrupt as the other. To fix our problems we have to stand away from party politics.
  
  You be at he pub Friday as always I hope? I’m buying.
  
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HappyStretchedThin
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:38pm
His inner Mormon beats your inner anti-American any day.

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rtk
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:27pm
In large part, W. Edwards Deming brought the concept of quality to Japanese business. They learned the lesson better than US businesses and transformed “Made in Japan” into a label that meant a quality product. Detroit couldn’t compete with Japan’s dedication to making quality products.

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PoohbearA2
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:26pm
Detroit destroyed not by a natural disaster but by “man made” disaster that is liberal politics, social decay and CORRUPTION. Coleman Young, Kwame, and city council tri-fecta of “terror”. I feel so sorry for the children of Detroit. Lots of people are trying very hard to improve the city but until the old guard is removed en mass, nothing will change.

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DAGNY
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:20pm
I lived near Detroit for many years. The entire city council is/was completely corrupt. Always treating themselves to luxury on the tax payers dimes. Hookers and junkies on every corner. It has been greedily eating itself for decades. And don’t forget the “Obama stash” woman was from Detroit. Many can’t even read but they always seems to know when “Obama stash” is being handed out.

I used to to feel sorry for them; now I blame them for all being so greedy and lazy. Not a good combo. They should bulldoze the entire city and plant corn. At least it will be good for something.

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- Salamander
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:54pm
  Yeah-ah! Corn is a great idea! I need to replenish my cob supply; you know, the red-cob bucket and the white-cob bucket! I thought I’d have to go to paper when all the fuss over ethanol was being blabbered all over the financial pages by Big Al and company! Where did he go? It’s been awfully quiet on that front, lately!
  
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- CatB
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 11:27pm
  They used to have the stand up and tell them your from Detroit…now we have this….
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v5Kjmc8FI
  
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- steve_oreeno
  Mar. 2, 2011 at 9:48pm
  I was born and raised in Detroit; lived there for 57 years. I hated to leave, but three years ago I had to move to Omaha because I wanted to stay employed. Glenn didn’t have to go all the way to Japan to see a sharp economic contrast between cities. He could just look at the difference between East Dearborn and Detroit. Drive east on Warren through Dearborn and you’ll see businesses everywhere. Every little shop neatly painted and thriving. Most shops are Arabic owned; they came to America with a dream – the American Dream and they are working to make it happen for themselves and their children. Further east on Warren you cross into Detroit; nothing but boarded up buildings and broken glass. The difference is caused by three things: 1. Taxes are a little lower in Dearborn. 2. You can buy insurance in Dearborn. 3. When you call the police in Dearborn they actually come. But the big difference is that in Detroit the people think that they are owed the American Dream; in Dearborn they are willing to work for it.
  
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DAGNY
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:13pm
Just keep sipping that Kool-aid.

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13th Imam
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:12pm
Dan Foster still doesn’t like you.

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Laus Deo
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:11pm
Care to wager on it?

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LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:11pm
comments are taking down yet broker0101 lives on .. go figure

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silentwatcher
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:08pm
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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V-Forge
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:04pm
Yes. Results simply speak for themselves. Results do not lie or mislead. “The truth has no agenda.”

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- hownowbrownmao
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 12:10am
  If the truth was a snake I hope it is smart enough to bite you twice
  
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- Mark Tripp
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 7:11am
  …and if Brains were TNT you couldn’t blow your nose.
  
  Oh, for the record, I am Mark Tripp, Grand Blanc Michigan, and you sir are either a Donkey or the perfect imitation of one.
  
  Note to the staff of the Blaze. Think how all of the problems of trolls would go away by adding an ignore feature to the site? One click and we do NOT have to read comments from pin heads and the donkeys can bray alone.
  
  Think about it…..
  
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- islandlady
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 1:56pm
  I understand the concept but wouldn’t that be eliminating Freedom of Speech or Bray or Something?
  Dont tamper with Perfection, Don’t Tamper with the Constitution.
  Stop Amending and Offending the Forefathers.
  
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- Mark Tripp
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 5:48pm
  There is freedom of speech, but there is no right to be heard.
  
  Hense, MANY sites use an ignore feature to turn off the trolls. They leave quickly when no one is listening to them.
  
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DashRipRock
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:02pm
Broker

here is a quarter

go play in the street

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TheGreyPiper
Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:00pm
What is that even supposed to mean? You FAIL as a troll, that;s pathetic.

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Psychosis
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:59pm
the great flight……………but you do realize that those who caused this might now be living next door???

they should be forced to move back and fix it before leaving……………..clean up your room liberals

they should be grounded

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WAR PIGS CRAWLING
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:54pm
What…..a community where 42% of the public school students do not graduate might fall prey to corruption and repeatedly reelect Democrats…..next you’ll be trying to say Ahmadinejad isn’t really a friend of the U.S.

Yep…Beck is way off base here…. (sarcasm added)

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Psychosis
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:53pm
your embracing your inner stupid

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V-Forge
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:49pm
I certainly hope you are right. I hope he is wrong. Logic tells me otherwise. I don’t usually address you because i do not think you are a troll like many others i have seen here. I think you are wrong about the man. To suggest he prays for the decline of America for personal gain. That is a very personal jab that i think is a bit over the line. If you hate the man that much then i assure you i trust him just as much as you disdain him. Why would you keep our company here? Is it your aim to simply attack our opinions. becks facts are all backed up by the videos and the hard copy he presents. the only argument you have in that case is your personal interpretation of those facts and figures. You assign your opinion as the higher value before you enter the argument just like the guy that said the other day that he didn’t need to have intelligent debate because he thought his opponent was not intelligent. Is that your stance? Have you really decided that you have the right to declare your opinion equal to an edict from on high? Do you really think that an attitude like that is fully free of arrogance. Sorry broker, that halo of almighty validity of opinion is simply that, a bloated sense of self worth. Argue a point like an equal or take your need to agitate to huffpo

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mossbrain
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:49pm
Which race embraces the American dream, Japs or blacks? That’s the difference in the two cities, one has Japs, one has blacks. Detroit is 81% blacks according to one web site.

It’s obvious isn’t it? If Detroit were 81% Japs do you think for one minute it would be like it is?
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- Psychosis
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:56pm
  troll alert
  
  really care to take the derogatory names back to the huff-n-puff where you crawled from
  
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- V-Forge
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:58pm
  I think it’s a bit crude to read that writing on the wall so loudly. I think reading between those lines might be a better way. I am sorry but i don’t really see the color or race as the issue. Those numbers do not lie but i think that it is very invalid to assume that those figures are simply because of race. Social factors and motivations are far greater than any racial factor if that is real at all. One flirts perilously close to racial bias to assume that race is the major factor. I’m form alabama and the only racial attack i was ever involved with was a white man removing two teeth because i had a black friend. i come from a town where the Dairy Queen still has two windows. (These days it’s order and pickup). I was denied a job at the local factory because people thought i was gay. I know plenty about bias so you can climb the steps of my mountain if you need to know what it’s really like. Please judge men by the content of their character. If you do otherwise you are less of a man.
  
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- trolltrainer
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:09pm
  V-Forge,
  
  Good post.
  
  But I do need to call to your attention that you are trying to reason with someone who calls himself mossbrain…
  
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- 13th Imam
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:14pm
  no but there would probably be alot more Sushi Bars
  
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- Ezekiel
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:47pm
  Freedom of speech has crossed into hate speech. You embrace an ideology that has long been proven a fool’s last resort. I can, as a mortal man, only pity you. May God rest your soul.
  
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- rdk
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 6:40pm
  It is the entitlement philosophy and not skin color that brought about ruin.
  
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mamawalker
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:48pm
Clap everyone – Broker, the Blaze Parrot, is back again repeating his favorite phrase…”Beck Pushes Gold to Beckbots”

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trolltrainer
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:34pm
You know Broker, I used to think you were somewhat intelligent despite your crude tone.

I was wrong…

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trolltrainer
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:26pm
That was a good segment.

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- hownowbrownmao
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 3:03am
  is there a person who disagrees with glenda that doesnt instantaneously become somehow affiliated with Jones Soros or Piven? 6 degrees of separation? Michele Malkin is more believable than glenda
  
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hownowbrownmao
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:24pm
He is trying to corner the gold market so he can recreate those pesky gold tablets that absent minded Joseph Smith misplaced in upstate NY

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- V-Forge
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:36pm
  To reticule a religion is an attack on our basic freedom of religion. I am a baptist myself but have known many Mormons. None of them ever questioned my faith because theirs is different. So here we have a comparison between two men. One is faithful and good and does not attack another s faith and another man that finds joy in doing so. I give you the example of one man having far more worth to society than the other.. How dare you sir. You are truly a child who finds entertainment in the ridicule of others. The reason yo0u do this is because of a low self image. You attack those that others find more valid than yourself in an attempt to degrade them so that you might feel better about yourself. If there is a level of quality that can be associated to the human soul then i implore you to crawl back under your anonymous shielding rock and do not trouble people that are obviously better than you are.
  
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- trolltrainer
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:36pm
  What do you do when one name starts getting moderated with every troll? Why, you change your name!
  
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- islandlady
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 1:32am
  Howie!!! I really believe you should check it out it out for yourself and study those plates and what
  they contain. THEY ARE FULL OF HIDDEN TREASURES!!! Sort of like the Davinci Code only
  TRUE precepts. I promise if you do you will be amazed!!!! Go ahead I DARE YOU!
  
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REDPILLREADY
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:19pm
yeah, but Detroit has Eminem and he is kinda the American dream and well, ….oh, nevermind….

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- TumbleBumble
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:47pm
  And they do have a nice football stadium. I’ll give ‘em that.
  
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- jedi.kep
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 12:08am
  LOL!
  
  I’ve seen those pictures from “The Ruins of Detroit.” Among them are a picture of a library. Falling apart, books scattered across the floor. That picture almost made me cry. All that knowledge going to waste. Correction. All that FREE knowledge going to waste. Terrible shame.
  
  The democratic/progressive party needs to go the way of the dinosaur. Extinction.
  
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- twotowner
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 9:43pm
  @jedi.kep
  Somewhere out there is a set of pictures taken from a warehouse abandoned by Detroit Public Schools. Tens of thousands of textbooks left to rot. One picture in particular is quite disturbing is a pile of books under a large hole in the roof. A tree seedling is growing out of the pile of books.
  
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V-Forge
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:18pm
Hiroshima??? Hell. Japan as a whole.. Look what they became. The potential they have now.

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samnjoeysgrama
Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:17pm
We need some good bumper stickers with this idea. “Obama. Working to make the US into Detroit.”

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- DashRipRock
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:27pm
  I got nothin
  
  pass
  
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- AmericanPower
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:44pm
  lets clean up america…before its too late
  
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- LAM2
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:44pm
  Or perhaps — Detroit: Ground Zero of Obamanomics.
  
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- oldwhiteguy
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:56pm
  They call it the rust for a reason. I know a lot of people from Motown and I do mean from. They live in Dallas, Tampa, and Nashville. Strange the areas they picked to move to.
- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 9:59pm
  I have been to Hiroshima, (many travels to many places) I will say this; it’s a beautiful city, clean modern. The Japanese as a whole embrace hard work, charity, but also don’t put up with multiculturalism. If you move there, you adapt, you break their laws, you go to jail or get deported. I hate to say it, but we should be looking to how they run their country, and maybe we could learn lessons we have lost.
  
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- HappyStretchedThin
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:03pm
  Detroit: Shaka, when the walls fell
  ;-) @ Darmok!
  
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- silentwatcher
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:10pm
  Detroit crashed because they embraced the almighty dollar……and the union collectively bargained them right out of a job. So to answer the question,,,,,I’d have to say Japan.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:17pm
  @HappyStretchedThin
  Temba, his arms wide!
  
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- Quagaar Warrior
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:23pm
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  “Come Visit Detroit”, Our Hiroshima Style Rubble is Radiation-Free!
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- thepatriotdave
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:23pm
  Sure Glenn is right, but them again most of us knew this already. We all need to keep in mind that liberal/progressives don’t believe in the American Dream, they HATE the American Dream. They want central planning for the good of the collective, and the only way you can do good for the collective is to CRUSH all individualism. Crushing individualism is the way to destroy the American Dream and they dam well know it.
  
  BTW… I’m getting sick and tired of The Blaze acting like the huffpo and censoring my postings. Especially when I am a huge Beck supporter and consider myself one of the good guys. I think Beck hiring that huffpo exec is negatively affecting this site!
  
  http://www.americasteapartynews.com
  
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- Showtime
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:24pm
  @AmericanPower
  Posted on February 28, 2011 at 9:44pm
  lets clean up america…before its too late
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Shall we start with the White House in 2012?
  Conservative Republican Congress.
  Conservative Republican legislatures across the country.
  Conservative Republican governors.
  
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- thepatriotdave
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:30pm
  Why do I keep getting censored???????
  
  I have read your rules twice now and I am NOT breaking any of the rules. I’m starting to think the huffpo hire was a big mistake!
  
  http://www.americasteapartynews.com
  
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- fertlmind
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:36pm
  DETROIT,….
  ARMPIT of America
  ‘sumpthin smells’
  
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- jzs
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:46pm
  Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra – good post. I’ve been to Japan, and may company has a plant there. The culture is different, one that support collective effort toward a common cause rather than individual achievement.
  
  I’m not an expert but the US auto industry began to fail when gas prices rose. What’s more, Japanese automobiles (and other products) were of better quality and retained their value longer. That wasn’t a failure of government, that was a failure of industry to embrace quality and durability, and who instead embraced the idea that Americans were always going to be able to buy a new car every two years and that gas prices wouldn’t hit anyone’s pocket books in a noticeable way. The US won WWII, but subsequently they lost the capitalistic battle of car sales.
  
  The current administration rescued the automobile industry in the US, and now they are back in the black. Despite all the Blaze nonsense, the US still has an automobile industry and all the associated jobs, and jobs of vendors to that industry, and jobs to those vendors and so on.
  
  Beck is off track. The US automobile industry had been gambling for years, tens of years, on low gas prices and a low quality product (compared to the Japanese) before they collapsed during the Bush administration.
  
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- brliantedj
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:53pm
  I saw an interesting video on this subject about a year ago:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw
  
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- cheezwhiz
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 10:56pm
  American Dream ….is that libberish for
  ” A nightmare for Americans”
  
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- cheezwhiz
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 11:05pm
  New Orleans : Look what Katrina did
  Detroit : Look what Latrina did
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 11:11pm
  jzs
  True, they are more of a collective, but in the 3 years I lived there, I did see that they kept everything clean, they did put a lot into social type infrastructure, they really enforced obeying laws, and stressed a bond in the community. One thing I believe differs is their unions do not have near the power we have allowed in this country, and the employees had a strong sense of pride in everything they did. I am not saying Japan doesn’t have their problems, look at what happened in the late 90′s when people were laid off, there were near riots.
  But along the same lines, they don’t put up with nonsense, every year in Okinawa, they have massive protests against the US Bases there, the protestors come, shout for about an hour, then break up and go home, always picking up their trash. If anyone gets out of line, bang, they have no problem sending them to jail. And if you go to jail, it’s not a picknik, we had one guy in our squadron that spent 2 weeks there, he did not have a good time. (they also did not and would not speak English, you had to hire an interpretor)
  Bottom line, you want to live there, you adapt, if not, the WILL show you the door. Our country better start looking at that, with all these protestors, all these people that want theirs and everyone else be damned, we are on a fast track to becoming Greece, Eastern Europe, or heaven forbid, France. Although france does allow Nuclear Power.
  We need to become the US we once were, but allowed those who hate this country to try and erase.
  
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- silentwatcher
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 11:11pm
  A little story….
  
  In 1984, I bought a Nissan Sentra. It seemed like I never had to fill up the gas tank,,,,as I was getting 45 miles to the gallon and ran strong. I say again, 1984!!! Then Nissan stopped selling the car (don’t know why) for a few years. They came back again with the Sentra, maybe 4/5 years later. It was now getting 10mpg less. The 2010 models still only get 30/35 mph.
  
  Look back into history at the “Tucker”, an American made car that was litterly run out of the auto industry because ‘they made it too good’. You think there is no thug influence in everyone’s American lives??
  
  That’s “Tucker”,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,google it.
  
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- silentwatcher
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 11:15pm
  BTW,,,,Tucker was shut down on ALLEGATIONS of fraud,,,,,
  
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- CatB
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 11:17pm
  Detroit — What decades of Progressives can do ….. destruction. I warned people that Obama would do to America what Granholm and Decades of Progressives have done to Detroit and MICHIGAN!
  
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- CatB
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 11:20pm
  @OLDWHITEGUY
  
  FROM MICHIGAN HERE… now LIVING in Southwest Florida. I hate going back for “visits” it is so depressing .. I don’t even know if many who still live there see just how depressing it is … I skipped last year .. but I want to see my friends so I will go this summer.
  
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- cheezwhiz
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 11:26pm
  Detroit : We know where Obama stashes his money
  
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- CatB
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 11:28pm
  Typical Detroit mentality…..
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v5Kjmc8FI
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 11:29pm
  @silentwatcher
  I bought an 85 Tercel, same thing, about 45 MPG, and it lasted forever. WHAT HAPPENED? Now Hybrids are saying they get almost that, with an electric engine?
  
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- silentwatcher
  Feb. 28, 2011 at 11:46pm
  What happened was “they made it too good.” Now you see?
  They also raised the tariff’s on the japanese cars coming into the U.S. I wonder which lobbyists had anything to do with that? Hmmmmm?????
  
  Make them too good and you get shut down.
  
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- getalong
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 12:03am
  Ten years ago, my son went on a mission trip to downtown Detroit. He said he had never seen so many boarded-up buildings and houses and trash all over the streets. Funny story; while my son was walking from the downtown church he was helping to renovate to a convenience store down the block, an older black man came up to him and got in his face asking him if he was a white boy. My son looked at the man and said,”Actually sir, I’m 3/4 Irish and 1/4 Scottish. How about you?”. The guy, who was looking for a fight, was so disarmed by his calm friendly response that he simply walked away. Gotta love him! Maybe there is something to the saying, “killing someone with kindness”.
  
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- flagkeeper
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 4:24am
  The Motor City, change you can believe in!
  
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- Texas84
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 7:30am
  How about this one:
  Detroit.. the future of America..
  
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- Sinista Mace
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 10:23am
  Detroit looks horrible.
  
  It hurts my heart.
  
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- techengineer11
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 10:46am
  AmericanPower: America has already failed. Are you blind?
  
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- techengineer11
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 10:51am
  This is why I like GB. I try to over look his Zionist blood thirst simply because he points out many obvious failings of the Apartheid. Like I just said to another poster under the Apartheid rule America has already failed. There’s no repair, no hope, no Republican majority to change things, only the promise of eternal conflict in which I hope a strong conservative leader that espouses the majority of my views arises to lead us out of this quagmire formally known as the United States.
  
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- BeerSnob
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 12:03pm
  To the people that are asking what happened to the great gas mileage cars used to get in the 80′s…
  1) Safety – Those cars were very light. Cars nowadays are a lot heavier thanks to government safety regulations.
  2) Emmisions control
  3) Cars are much more complex now and have more moving parts that have to be fed. That robs gas milage.
  I don’t like it either, I’m just sayin…
  
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- GENZERO
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 1:23pm
  How about a bumper sticker “After 50 Years WTF”
  
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- smithclar3nc3
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 1:33pm
  JZS GM hasn’t turned a profit since 2004 when Gas was under 1.80 a gallon. That was until they got 22,000,000,000 in tax dollars not to mention huge subsity for cost overages and customer incentives for greener atuos. It’s amazing how profitable a company can get when you get 22,000,000,000 without producing a single thing to get it.
  
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- LeroyJethroGibbs
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 2:10pm
  They just need to raise taxes, that will fix it
  
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- weeblewacker1
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 2:24pm
  hmmm,i wonder how long it will take the radio stations in Detroit to drop beck!! i see that he was dropped in madison! now how many does that make it? keep going beck,pretty soon the only radio station that will carry your little show will be somewhere in Idaho.I also saw that our friends up north will not allow fox news or a lot of the loonie right to be broadcast there,because and i quote:”a licenser may not broadcast….any false or misleading news.” so they said fox is a no-no!! because they lie!! too bad we still don’t have the same law here.
  
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- Libertyluvnmomma
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 4:46pm
  Detroit-” we make Slavik immigrants feel at home”
  
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- BernieKittyCat
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 6:51pm
  @Weeble
  
  Beck doesn’t have any Detroit stations. I can pick him up from work in the western Detroit suburbs but the station comes out of Ann Arbor. I can’t get the signal at home in Dearborn Heights much less in Detroit. Too bad about Madison losing him.
  
  Detroit really does suck. I gave up on it after the residents re-elected gangsta mayor Kwame. I would love to leave the area but I’m trapped by obligations to the mortgage company because my house is worth less than a third of what I owe on it.
  
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- earthrise
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 9:12pm
  @ Darmok and Happy….
  
  glad my boss wasn’t here but…… ROFLMAO!!!!
  
  touche! XD
  
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- independentvoteril
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 11:22pm
  IF I remember correctly we GAVE them money to rebuild or at least a lot of it..
  
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- independentvoteril
  Mar. 1, 2011 at 11:24pm
  If I remember we gave Hiroshima a lot of the money to rebuild.. it was suppose to be a loan but we FORGAVE it.. sorry about the double post but I forgot to include WHO got money from us..
  
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- GONESURFING
  Mar. 2, 2011 at 3:26am
  Been to Hiroshima, a beautiful modern city, would love to go back. Don’t really want to go to Detroit though.
  
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