DETROIT: Glenn Beck is correct at times...

By now you probably have heard all the hubbub about what Glenn Beck said about Detroit. Channel seven (7) News had all sorts of people remarking how pissed they were and even the local big wigs were polite but said Beck should come and visit and then he could see how Detroit is progressing…nicely, I presume…

What the hell did he say that was so outrageous…well he compared Detroit to Hiroshima (atom bombed during WWII if you don’t recognize name). He also added that Hiroshima has come a long way since that atomic devastation whereas Detroit has sunk deeper and deeper into desolation.

My wife quickly added; didn’t we help rebuild Japan after the war which is true but I added that Detroit has received millions upon millions in state and federal funds through the years and has absolutely nothing to show for it except a wasteland.

Let me make something perfectly clear about Glenn Beck and that is that he is a Looney bird, general wacko with what I consider a mental problem but he is popular with other wacko type people (right wingers) and gets a lot of media attention. That does not mean that he only spouts gibberish but sometimes he may actually say something factual and sensible (for a wacko).

I can see where he gets his Hiroshima / Detroit comparison; just look at the pictures of devastation. And he is right to point out that Hiroshima has come a long way and Detroit has gone down a long way from its heyday.

Beck blames Detroit’s downfall on a number of things including blatant corruption (absolutely true), unions (definitely a contributing factor) and progressive policies (welfare handouts), also true.

Actually I have been describing what ails Detroit for some time now and most of what I say agrees with Beck. I have also been pointing out areas that are positive and hold potential for the city’s rebirth but those are few and challenged at every turn by what I call an inbred culture of corruption and arrogance that holds the city down.

Beck also takes on the auto companies that should have been left to die (I assume he is not including FORD which asked for nothing and is doing very well). I agree with him as to the running of those corporations into the ground by inept management and union pressure but I cannot see letting them just die on the vine which a true capitalist would have recommended…

We sure respond quickly to criticism of Detroit but really we have nothing to defend the city with…yet. We may in the future but currently we are sitting ducks for any wacko to come and shoot at us…

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