Can America admit that Detroit died by the big three? I am
not referring to the automobile companies but rather the big three lies that
the Democratic Party preaches; unions help workers, liberal big statist socialist’s
policies improve people’s lives and the Democratic Party elite cares about the
little guy.
Sorry, Democrat blame gamers and finger pointing victim
sellers, this time, this city and this city’s riches to rags story cannot be
blamed on Republican leaders, conservative principles or capitalistic greed. The
OWS can’t camp out in Detroit parks and blame Wall Street for the crumbling
infrastructure, crime, unemployment and long history of union and political
corruption.
Detroit was once a healthy example of free enterprise that
attracted manufacturing due to its unique transportation system in the heart of
the Great Lakes. Starting with fur traders in the 19th century to
car and diverse manufacturing in the early 20th century the city
boomed with growth, jobs and opportunities for both the highly skilled and
unskilled workers.
Detroit attracted an eclectic mixture of Americans that
reflected America’s immigrant welcome wagon that significantly helped build a
thriving middle class. Yet, as the history of business teaches all communities
built around the engines of industries, areas must be willing to undergo
evolvement as modern technology shifts both jobs and demand for the marketplace
to adjust.
Socialist’s politicians and political activists wrongly assume
that successful businesses will continue to make huge profits, expand jobs and
be perpetually solvent regardless of the economic times and the supply and
demand trends. Socialist’s liberal unions and politicians go far beyond their
stated goals to ensure humane working conditions and fairness in wages, taxes
and laws designed to protect against unscrupulous business practices, they try
and micromanage business.
The rise of unions in America was born out of business greed
for profits, yet greed is not a vice that lives in the propriety of business
but rather can infect the heart of a poor man as much as a rich man. Union
greed in America is just as destructive as business greed and far worse because
unions are not makers but rather parasites of makers.
The combination of liberal politicians and unions greed has
been destructive to America’s free enterprise. When liberalism preaches that
greed is only confined to business and not workers they fuel a vulture culture of greed. This partnership
of corrupt politicians and unions invades business as two parasites that feed
off the host or business and as with all parasites feeding off the host, the
results are terminal.
For decades and decades the promotion of avarice by the
Democratic Party in bed with the unions formed the culture of biting the hand
that feeds them. Naively to this day the liberals begrudge the business money that
pays their wages and donates to their political campaigns. Socialists’ live in
a selfish non-introspective bubble that capitalism is necessary only for them
to exploit as their cash cow.
The usurious nature of liberal socialist’s policies,
which preach an endless field of cash cows to infest then redistribute their wealth
to everyone, has been exposed as the fraud it is built upon. No longer is the
liberal socialist’s theory on paper, it has been a nuts and bolt experiment in
one of America’s greatest free enterprise working city. All Americans now have
an historical example of what happens when the Ponzi scheme of socialism runs
out of other people’s money; its name is Detroit.
Worse than just ruining Detroit’s economic engine the
socialists were not finished with the city and Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty
increased government welfare and furthered the exodus of upper middle class and
wealthy Americans that left the city. It is wrong to say white flight, for that
would totally ignore that wealthy successful Black Americans left the city of
Detroit just as fast as white affluent Americans.
Unions, corporations that signed unsustainable union
contracts, corrupt Democratic Party politicians that taxed and taxed and top
down tinkering by federal programs from Washington insured that Detroit would eventually
both bleed jobs and fail to attract new ventures.
Liberals argue that Detroit’s failure was a result of the
evolution from industrial to post industrial America where manufacturing left
America to take advantage of cheap overseas labor. It is a partial truth built
on a foundational lie and akin to explaining that an abused woman left her
husband for another man.
They deny that over regulation, taxation, union bullying not
only drove away many otherwise profitable business but it equally failed to
attract new business to fill the void. All across America cities and states
have huge liabilities caused by mismanagement and greed. Those states and
cities that both deal with their fiscal crises rather than ignore it will
benefit however, if they do not change their abusive micro-management of free
enterprise they will continue to see jobs and opportunities contract rather
than expand.
Obama and socialist’s Democrats love to talk about jobs and
job creation by government stimulus policies as though business is expanded by
government. It is like the abusive husband telling his wife that if she would
just be a happy masochist he would not be seen by her as sadistic.
Government does not create any jobs except government jobs.
Government takes money from business and workers to pay the salaries of those
government jobs. When you hear any politicians in either side of the political
aisle talk about creating jobs then they are either growing government and
shrinking your wallet or trying to take credit for someone else’s hard work and
success. (“You didn’t build that.”)
Free enterprise built Detroit and corrupt unions, government
and the voters that supported the socialists corrupt politicians raided,
plundered and micro-managed it to insolvency. When are we Americans going to
stop shooting ourselves in the foot and start kicking out the charlatans that don’t
just lie with empty promises but fleece our future and poison success opportunities for
every American?
America’s free enterprise and hard work built Detroit and
the socialist’s liberals, unions and corrupt city, state and federal
politicians killed it off. Let’s go America, let’s learn through failure and
rid our Congress of elitist, statist and socialists. It is time for all good
men and women to vote for those that will return our nation to its roots of
small limited and constitutional faithful representation.
