What does the DOE, NPR, NEA, AMTRAK, EPA have in common?
You might say they are funded by the Taxpayer of The United States and you would be correct. You might say they don’t provide any service that helps the American People and you would be correct. Do they take taxpayer money and send it down a rat hole, I think so.
Does the DOE create energy, I don’t think so. Has 1 drop of oil or natural gas been produced, I don’t think so. Does the DOE take taxpayer money and send it down a Rat Hole, I think so. Created in 1977, 16,000 employees, annual budget $24.1 billion 2009, 2010 $26.4 billion.
Does NPR serve a purpose that the taxpayers should have to pay for, I don’t think so. This is supposed to be a Capitalist Nation, if NPR served a purpose a private company would be running it and a profit would be made. If the NPR wasn’t a shill for the Demon-Crats do you think the taxpayers would have to pay for it, I don’t think so.
Does the NEA provide a great education for the children of the United States, I don’t think so. The level of proficiency of the public school child has dropped every year there has been a NEA even though the United States taxpayer has paid more and more every year. The federal government takes taxpayer money and dumbs down the American school child (to liberalism) and the unions send the money down a rat hole, campaign ads for Demon-Crats .
Does Amtrak serve a purpose, I don’t think so. Amtrak doesn’t even own the tracks they run on. The tracks are owned by Capitalist (they have to make a profit). Take an Amtrak train from Dearborn MI to Chicago sometime. 6 to 7 hours to go 269 miles, of course most of that time is sitting on a switch track waiting for the freight train to pass through.
Now obama wants high speed rail, another rat hole for the taxpayer’s money. Does anyone think that the EPA will allow train tracks to be built across rivers, creeks through forest, I don’t think so? What would they be powered by Solar Power, I don’t think so.
Could these Federal Agency be eliminated, without doing any harm to the American Way of life, I think so.
If the Federal Government eliminated the DOE money could be used to explore, drill oil & natural gas well, produce clean coal technology and build nukes and private companies would make it possible not to depend on foreign governments (that hate us).
The money spent on NEA would be controlled on a state by state basis (as it once was before the unions got involved) and I guarantee the children of the United States would greatly improve on the world scale as it was when I was going to state public schools.
If the money (sent down the rat hole) for NPR, AMTRAK & EPA were stopped tomorrow the only people affected would be the greedy government workers with the pensions & benefits that the private employees (that produce a product or provide a service that someone will pay for) don’t have.
I want even start on obama care!!!!!!!!
James C. Davis
Pryxp1.com
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Electric Vehicles & Electricity
Electric Vehicles & Electricity.
I just did a little research on electric vehicles. Government motors was a little late getting into the game.
Early 1900’s.
Columbia Runabout had a car (Volt not there name, mine) that could travel 40 miles on a single charge. Looks like government motors was about 111 years late to reinvent that car. Of course that was before batteries & electronics were not as sophisticated as they are today.
The 1914 Detroit Electric Car could go 80 miles on a single charge. Clara Ford (Henry’s wife) drove one; it was her favorite car, poor Henry.
The American Morrison electric car could go 182 miles on a single charge, before lithium ion batteries.
There was an electric car built (The Baker Torpedo) it was clocked at 120mph in 1902.
What does the Tesla (car) not to be confused with the roadster at over $150,000, have over the Baker except a $57,000 base price tag? Of course the Tesla has a 160 mile range. In June 2009 Tesla was approved to receive $465 million in interest-bearing loans from The United States Taxpayers Department of Energy (sound familiar GM, Chrysler). In June 2010, it was reported that Tesla sold a total of $12.2 million zero emission vehicle credits to other automakers, including Honda, up to March 31, 2010; can Gore (Al) be very far behind?
Not to be forgotten is the Wood’s Phaeton a hybrid car. For the uninformed both electric & internal combustion engine (Volt & Prius).
At one time in 1899 ninety percent of the taxies in New York were electric, they were built by Electric Carriage and Wagon Company of Philadelphia and now they are trying to bring electric taxies back to New York!!!! Three cheers for Bloomberg keep trying it until you make it work.
Doesn’t any one Read or Understand History anymore? Why do the car companies (government motors) think that the American People will pay $43,000.00 for a vehicle that was invented in the late 1800’s early 1900’s?
My next question is: What is going to power 1 million electric cars that obama says will be on the road soon. With all the improvements in lithium ion batteries and the vastly improved electronic controls, you still need electricity to charge the batteries.
Unless you are a complete moron you know that electricity has to be produced. The electricity that powers The United States comes from coal, oil, natural gas and some nuclear, but coal is the greatest producer of electricity. During the campaign obama and biden said they would kill coal. They said that they would make it so expensive that the coal producers and the coal fired power plants could not afford to produce electricity. That leaves oil, natural gas; if you remember after the oil spill in the Gulf obama suspended all oil exploration in the Gulf even after a federal judge said it was unconstitutional, laws doesn’t matter to this man. The obama administration has stopped all oil & natural gas leases in places where there is oil & natural gases.
There hasn’t been a new refinery built in the last 30 years because of the EPA. There hasn’t been a nuclear plant built in 25 years. The obama administration says the United States will get its power from green energy. Where is this green energy coming from, corn? For every gal of ethanol produced from corn it takes $4.00 of energy and a great deal of water to produce it. When that corn is used for ethanol it is lost as a food source. Brazil has been producing ethanol from sugar cane for years. The obama administration just gave $80 billion to Brazil for future off shore oil production, wonder why sugar cane can’t produce enough power for their needs. Brazil has been producing ethanol a lot longer than the United States and they now need oil, coincidence I don’t think so.
So the great minds in Congress and the White House said lets get the power from wind, sun, algae and ethanol. I would remind you the American people that 90% of the great educated minds (lawyers) in Congress have never had a job outside government or academia. If the Congress great minds had ever taken any science courses instead of liberal arts classes (easy courses to graduate) they would understand that you cannot produce enough power from wind, sun & algae to power this Great Nation not to mention the extra 1 million electric cars obama motors has promised at $43,000 each with the taxpayers picking up $7,000.00 of the price.
So I get back to my original point Heaven help us when all the vehicles on the road, in the air and on the oceans are electric. “May The Wind Blow Strong and the Sun Shine Bright & the Algae Reproduce”!!!!!
I would hope the American People will look at the education of the next round of people seeking to become, representatives, congressmen, supreme court justices & president of this Great Nation. Maybe a few of the next elected officials would have some Science Sense, Common Sense as well as “Book Learning”
James C. Davis
Byron
I just did a little research on electric vehicles. Government motors was a little late getting into the game.
Early 1900’s.
Columbia Runabout had a car (Volt not there name, mine) that could travel 40 miles on a single charge. Looks like government motors was about 111 years late to reinvent that car. Of course that was before batteries & electronics were not as sophisticated as they are today.
The 1914 Detroit Electric Car could go 80 miles on a single charge. Clara Ford (Henry’s wife) drove one; it was her favorite car, poor Henry.
The American Morrison electric car could go 182 miles on a single charge, before lithium ion batteries.
There was an electric car built (The Baker Torpedo) it was clocked at 120mph in 1902.
What does the Tesla (car) not to be confused with the roadster at over $150,000, have over the Baker except a $57,000 base price tag? Of course the Tesla has a 160 mile range. In June 2009 Tesla was approved to receive $465 million in interest-bearing loans from The United States Taxpayers Department of Energy (sound familiar GM, Chrysler). In June 2010, it was reported that Tesla sold a total of $12.2 million zero emission vehicle credits to other automakers, including Honda, up to March 31, 2010; can Gore (Al) be very far behind?
Not to be forgotten is the Wood’s Phaeton a hybrid car. For the uninformed both electric & internal combustion engine (Volt & Prius).
At one time in 1899 ninety percent of the taxies in New York were electric, they were built by Electric Carriage and Wagon Company of Philadelphia and now they are trying to bring electric taxies back to New York!!!! Three cheers for Bloomberg keep trying it until you make it work.
Doesn’t any one Read or Understand History anymore? Why do the car companies (government motors) think that the American People will pay $43,000.00 for a vehicle that was invented in the late 1800’s early 1900’s?
My next question is: What is going to power 1 million electric cars that obama says will be on the road soon. With all the improvements in lithium ion batteries and the vastly improved electronic controls, you still need electricity to charge the batteries.
Unless you are a complete moron you know that electricity has to be produced. The electricity that powers The United States comes from coal, oil, natural gas and some nuclear, but coal is the greatest producer of electricity. During the campaign obama and biden said they would kill coal. They said that they would make it so expensive that the coal producers and the coal fired power plants could not afford to produce electricity. That leaves oil, natural gas; if you remember after the oil spill in the Gulf obama suspended all oil exploration in the Gulf even after a federal judge said it was unconstitutional, laws doesn’t matter to this man. The obama administration has stopped all oil & natural gas leases in places where there is oil & natural gases.
There hasn’t been a new refinery built in the last 30 years because of the EPA. There hasn’t been a nuclear plant built in 25 years. The obama administration says the United States will get its power from green energy. Where is this green energy coming from, corn? For every gal of ethanol produced from corn it takes $4.00 of energy and a great deal of water to produce it. When that corn is used for ethanol it is lost as a food source. Brazil has been producing ethanol from sugar cane for years. The obama administration just gave $80 billion to Brazil for future off shore oil production, wonder why sugar cane can’t produce enough power for their needs. Brazil has been producing ethanol a lot longer than the United States and they now need oil, coincidence I don’t think so.
So the great minds in Congress and the White House said lets get the power from wind, sun, algae and ethanol. I would remind you the American people that 90% of the great educated minds (lawyers) in Congress have never had a job outside government or academia. If the Congress great minds had ever taken any science courses instead of liberal arts classes (easy courses to graduate) they would understand that you cannot produce enough power from wind, sun & algae to power this Great Nation not to mention the extra 1 million electric cars obama motors has promised at $43,000 each with the taxpayers picking up $7,000.00 of the price.
So I get back to my original point Heaven help us when all the vehicles on the road, in the air and on the oceans are electric. “May The Wind Blow Strong and the Sun Shine Bright & the Algae Reproduce”!!!!!
I would hope the American People will look at the education of the next round of people seeking to become, representatives, congressmen, supreme court justices & president of this Great Nation. Maybe a few of the next elected officials would have some Science Sense, Common Sense as well as “Book Learning”
James C. Davis
Byron
Governor, Grades & Unions
Governor, Grades & Unions.
Let us start with the Wisconsin Schools and a very Brave Governor Scott Walker. Governor Walker is doing what he was elected to do. Cut spending, balance the State Budget which has to be done “under law” save as many jobs as possible, get a handle on taxes, eliminate crime and corruption in the government & unions.
The old Demon-Crats can’t take the heat so they run off to a Best Western Resort in Illinois (Clock Tower). Wonder, is taxpayers or unions paying for this vacation, they all should be recalled & the New Governor appoint new members who have the people of Wisconsin interest in mind. The budget is in shambles and the unions want to dictated what the elected officials can and will do. As an elected (person) said in the not too distant past, “The election is over I won you lost” end of story. The people of Wisconsin elected “Me” to do what has to be done and I will do my best to get it done.
The 1.6 million-member AFSCME last year tapped emergency accounts and took out loans as it poured more than $90 million into Democratic campaign efforts in the mid-term elections. I wonder how the union bosses will pay back the principal and interest on the money they borrowed, dues paying members.
Overall, unions put around $400 million into the 2008 campaign to help elect obama and other Democrats. Where did the union bosses get all that money, dues paying members maybe. Wonder how many of the dues paying members would have had that money going to pension plans, insurance plans etc: I wonder how many of the dues paying members were asked if their money could be used for this purpose?
Who was the first person to make a statement on the impasse, you guessed it obama, “Wisconsin is trying to kill the union” of course this was after he couldn’t find time to issues a statement or at least issue one that made sense about Ethiopia.
The Naked Emperor News Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:43am.
Politics Shocking Level of Influence Exposed: Union Boss Trumka Talks to White House EVERY DAY and Visits a Couple Times A Week.
Incase you don’t know who Trumka is: On September 16, 2009, Richard L. Trumka was elected President of the AFL-CIO by acclamation at the Federation’s 26th convention in Pittsburgh, Pa. I might be wrong but I didn’t no that acclamation was the same thing as being elected; of course I could be wrong about this.
Gee I wonder if this has to do with not only the NEA, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, UAW, Teamsters, But every other local, state, federal union in the United STATES.
CNSNews.com said. Two-thirds of the eighth graders in Wisconsin public schools cannot read proficiently according to the U.S. Department of Education, despite the fact that Wisconsin spends more per pupil in its public schools than any other state in the Midwest. Whose taxpayer money is being sent down a rat hole with no rewards for the school children of Wisconsin? By the way that rat hole is the Teachers Union Bosses “NEA”
In the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered by the U.S. Department of Education in 2009 only 32 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned a “proficient” rating while another 2 percent earned an “advanced” rating. The other 66 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned ratings below “proficient,” including 44 percent who earned a rating of “basic” and 22 percent who earned a rating of “below basic.”
Makes you wonder doesn’t it.
James C. Davi
Let us start with the Wisconsin Schools and a very Brave Governor Scott Walker. Governor Walker is doing what he was elected to do. Cut spending, balance the State Budget which has to be done “under law” save as many jobs as possible, get a handle on taxes, eliminate crime and corruption in the government & unions.
The old Demon-Crats can’t take the heat so they run off to a Best Western Resort in Illinois (Clock Tower). Wonder, is taxpayers or unions paying for this vacation, they all should be recalled & the New Governor appoint new members who have the people of Wisconsin interest in mind. The budget is in shambles and the unions want to dictated what the elected officials can and will do. As an elected (person) said in the not too distant past, “The election is over I won you lost” end of story. The people of Wisconsin elected “Me” to do what has to be done and I will do my best to get it done.
The 1.6 million-member AFSCME last year tapped emergency accounts and took out loans as it poured more than $90 million into Democratic campaign efforts in the mid-term elections. I wonder how the union bosses will pay back the principal and interest on the money they borrowed, dues paying members.
Overall, unions put around $400 million into the 2008 campaign to help elect obama and other Democrats. Where did the union bosses get all that money, dues paying members maybe. Wonder how many of the dues paying members would have had that money going to pension plans, insurance plans etc: I wonder how many of the dues paying members were asked if their money could be used for this purpose?
Who was the first person to make a statement on the impasse, you guessed it obama, “Wisconsin is trying to kill the union” of course this was after he couldn’t find time to issues a statement or at least issue one that made sense about Ethiopia.
The Naked Emperor News Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:43am.
Politics Shocking Level of Influence Exposed: Union Boss Trumka Talks to White House EVERY DAY and Visits a Couple Times A Week.
Incase you don’t know who Trumka is: On September 16, 2009, Richard L. Trumka was elected President of the AFL-CIO by acclamation at the Federation’s 26th convention in Pittsburgh, Pa. I might be wrong but I didn’t no that acclamation was the same thing as being elected; of course I could be wrong about this.
Gee I wonder if this has to do with not only the NEA, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, UAW, Teamsters, But every other local, state, federal union in the United STATES.
CNSNews.com said. Two-thirds of the eighth graders in Wisconsin public schools cannot read proficiently according to the U.S. Department of Education, despite the fact that Wisconsin spends more per pupil in its public schools than any other state in the Midwest. Whose taxpayer money is being sent down a rat hole with no rewards for the school children of Wisconsin? By the way that rat hole is the Teachers Union Bosses “NEA”
In the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered by the U.S. Department of Education in 2009 only 32 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned a “proficient” rating while another 2 percent earned an “advanced” rating. The other 66 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned ratings below “proficient,” including 44 percent who earned a rating of “basic” and 22 percent who earned a rating of “below basic.”
Makes you wonder doesn’t it.
James C. Davi
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Electric Cars
How can The American People let people like Senator Stabenow get away with bills like this? The obama administration won’t let the US drill for oil, gas, build new coal power plants, nuke plants & now putting further emission caps on existing plants. Where does she think the electricity will come from to power these go carts & where does the $7500.00 come from (taxes maybe). I'm sure everyone in Pontiac and the state of Michigan will run right out and buy one, they only cost $43,000.00. Is the pay scale in Pontiac so high that everyone (that still has a job) can buy one?
WASHINGTON - Senator Debbie Stabenow will introduce legislation today to spur the sale and production of advanced technology vehicles and create thousands of Michigan jobs. Sen. Stabenow's Charging America Forward Act will provide consumers with a rebate worth up to $7500 for plug-in electric vehicles at the time of purchase and give businesses a tax credit for purchasing medium or heavy duty plug-in hybrid trucks. The bill also extends a public-private partnership she helped create to increase the production of advanced battery technologies in America.
"Michigan is already a leader in emerging hi-tech battery and electric car production," said Senator Stabenow. "Other countries are acting to develop their own advanced vehicle markets because they realize the tremendous economic potential this new technology represents. These initiatives will allow Michigan innovators to continue to out-compete the world and create new jobs here."
James C. Davis
pryxp1@netscape.com
248-417-6337
http://pryxp1.blogspot.com/
WASHINGTON - Senator Debbie Stabenow will introduce legislation today to spur the sale and production of advanced technology vehicles and create thousands of Michigan jobs. Sen. Stabenow's Charging America Forward Act will provide consumers with a rebate worth up to $7500 for plug-in electric vehicles at the time of purchase and give businesses a tax credit for purchasing medium or heavy duty plug-in hybrid trucks. The bill also extends a public-private partnership she helped create to increase the production of advanced battery technologies in America.
"Michigan is already a leader in emerging hi-tech battery and electric car production," said Senator Stabenow. "Other countries are acting to develop their own advanced vehicle markets because they realize the tremendous economic potential this new technology represents. These initiatives will allow Michigan innovators to continue to out-compete the world and create new jobs here."
James C. Davis
pryxp1@netscape.com
248-417-6337
http://pryxp1.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Mr Al Gore
Has anyone seen Al Gore? Has Mr. Peace Prize winner been vacationing in the warm North East this winter? I suppose that Mayor Bloomberg and Mr. Gore have been hanging out on the warm sands at Coney Island having a blast in the warm Atlantic.
I wonder if the Mayor has got his unions under control and have they removed the snow & garbage.
If the mayor would spend as much time taking care of city business as he spends trying to take care of federal business (gun control) New York would be a place people would be trying to get into rather trying to get out.
I wonder if the Mayor has got his unions under control and have they removed the snow & garbage.
If the mayor would spend as much time taking care of city business as he spends trying to take care of federal business (gun control) New York would be a place people would be trying to get into rather trying to get out.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Guns and Women
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Guns and Women
A long time ago Mr. Colt said all men are created equal but a Colt makes women more equal than a man without a gun. How can anyone argue with this logic? How many women have been raped in Detroit the last month? If the first women had a legal gun and knew how to use it there would have been a lot less pain and suffering in the Detroit area.
All you liberals that want hand guns banned, how do you dispute this?
Second Amendment Lives and so do people that believe it.
An ERA member and CCR beliver.
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Guns and Women
A long time ago Mr. Colt said all men are created equal but a Colt makes women more equal than a man without a gun. How can anyone argue with this logic? How many women have been raped in Detroit the last month? If the first women had a legal gun and knew how to use it there would have been a lot less pain and suffering in the Detroit area.
All you liberals that want hand guns banned, how do you dispute this?
Second Amendment Lives and so do people that believe it.
An ERA member and CCR beliver.
http://pryxp1.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
What will happen to my country
Benton Harbor Michigan:
Detroit Michigan
Zimbabwe, Africa
United States of America
What do these 2 cities 1 country & maybe another Country have in common?
Benton Harbor, Michigan
The Benton Township police are still largely white, although now they have a Black chief of police, Jim Coburn, and the city of Benton Harbor has a Black Mayor and city council, black police chief and other civic officials. It was apparently the 1966 Black revolt which caused many whites, both business and political leaders, along with white citizens generally, to bolt the city of Benton Harbor and make the trek to St. Joseph and other predominately white cities in the county. Thousands of whites left the city, apparently no longer feeling safe and in control of Benton Harbor. Races in Benton Harbor:
Black (92.4%)
White Non-Hispanic (5.4%)
Two or more races (1.7%)
American Indian (0.8%)
Hispanic (0.6%)
Jesse Jackson visited the town, allegedly to help restore peace. According to the Associated Press, Jackson told a gathering of 200 that they should "turn tragedy into triumph" and stated "we'll turn this crisis into an opportunity."
The type of opportunities for which Mr. Jackson is most famous are racial shakedowns which result in large donations to his organization and/or the award of lucrative business opportunities to his family and friends.
Following one "peace keeping opportunity" Mr. Jackson's family ended up with a very lucrative beer distributorship in Chicago.
God help Benton Harbor.
One police officer told Adversity.Net that Jackson's remarks were remarkably muted and non-confrontational. The officer also told us that the police are very grateful that so far Al Sharpton has not made a threatened appearance in Benton Harbor.
Benton Harbor, when it was white-ruled, had been the most prosperous city in Berrien County. It was a major tourist center, business capital, and industrial center. All during the 1930, 1940’s and 1950’s, Blacks from Arkansas, Tennessee, and other Southern states flocked to the city to work in its industrial and manufacturing plants. The Blacks had no political power, but at least they had jobs and opportunity. There was a burgeoning Black community that traded among itself, created their own culture, and made the best of it.
It was apparently the 1966 Black revolt which caused many whites, both business and political leaders, along with white citizens generally, to bolt the city of Benton Harbor and make the trek to St. Joseph and other predominately white cities in the county. Thousands of whites left the city, apparently no longer feeling safe and in control of Benton Harbor.
Consider that there is only 2% unemployment in St. Joseph, while over 50% unemployment in Benton Harbor among youth and adults alike, many of whom have not had a job in years.
This is how the locals want to solve Benton Harbor’s problems.
I’m surprised that asking the Federal Government to bail them out. After all Benton Harbor was a prosperous lovely city. The “White” Federal, State & Local Government must have caused all the problems. Has anyone ever thought “the people” caused the problems and if they tried they could solve the problems.
1. Write Gov. Jennifer Granholm: email: jennifer.granholm@michigan.gov P.O. Box 30013, Lansing, MI 48909), and demand that she appoint a special prosecutor to prosecute these racist cops, investigate police behavior in Benton Harbor, and compensate the victims and/or their families of police murders.
2. Send donations to the civil rights groups which are protesting this racist police brutality, the Southwest Michigan Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality, P.O. Box 19962, Kalamazoo, MI 49019, and the Benton Harbor BANCO, 1940 Union, Benton Harbor, MI 49022.
3. Support the boycott against the Whirlpool Corporation and its products until it works to end economic apartheid and racist redlining of the Black community of Benton Harbor.
4. Support the boycott against the tourism industry in St. Joseph, Michigan.
Detroit Michigan:
Population increase
The development of the automobile industry led to a massive increase in industrial production in the city. This in turn led to rising demands for labor, which were filled by huge numbers of newcomers from Europe and the American South. Between 1900 and 1930, the city's population soared from 265,000 to over 1.5 million. The landscape of the city also changed dramatically. Once known as the "Paris of the Midwest" for its tree-shaded avenues, the city took on a more blue-collar appearance as its riverfront became lined with factories and grain silos. At the same time, Detroit's downtown flourished architecturally, largely under the leadership of Albert Kahn, who designed a number of Art Deco skyscrapers. The city also experienced a cultural flowering, with a major expansion of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the founding of other institutions.
Labor disputes
With the factories came high-profile labor strife, climaxing in the 1930s as the United Auto Workers initiated bitter battles with Detroit's auto manufacturers. The labor activism established during those years, which brought fame and notoriety to hometown union leaders such as Jimmy Hoffa and Walter Reuther, remains a key feature on the city's cultural and political landscape.
Urban decline
Detroit endured a painful decline in the early 1970's, and was often held up as a symbol of Rust Belt urban blight. After peaking in 1950 with 1.85 million residents, the city's population plummeted when residents moved to the suburbs.
The 12th Street Riot in 1967 and court-ordered busing accelerated "white flight" from the city. Large numbers of buildings and homes were abandoned, with many remaining for years in states of decay. Recent urban renewal efforts have led to the demolition and renovation of abandoned buildings, the razing of old houses for new housing developments, and an expedited process to remove abandoned homes near schools. Abandoned buildings remain in many blighted areas. With the large number of homes razed, sizeable tracts have reverted back to nature to become a form urban prairie. Wild animals have been spotted migrating from their destroyed former habitat in the suburbs to the city.
The percentage of black residents increased rapidly and the first black mayor, Coleman Young, was elected in 1973. Young's style during his record four terms in office was not well received by many white Detroiters.
During the latter half of the 20th century, Detroit's crime figures were often among the highest in the country. Though those figures have decreased in recent years, the crime rate remains high, and the murder rate partly caused by gang-related activity was one of the highest in the United States. Though the 1960s saw the rise of heroin, use leveled off as the population declined. The Detroit gang Young Boys Inc. was formed in the 1970s and introduced a crack cocaine epidemic and produced collateral property crimes. Violence was common as competing drug dealers fought for territory.
In addition to property tax, the city levies an income tax of 2.65% on residents, 1.325% on non-residents, and 1.6% on corporations. Revenue is also obtained from utility taxes, hotel excises and from the Detroit-owned Water and Sewer system that provides most of the fresh water and wastewater treatment facilities within the metropolitan area. Detroit has had to fight off legislative efforts to turn control of the system to the suburbs.
With a decreasing population and decline in the automotive industry, the city's finances have been adversely affected. The city has cut its workforce and closed operations to avoid state-ordered receivership. In addition, Detroit has demanded pay cuts and other dramatic "give backs" from the municipal unions that represent city employees.]
Detroit is hampered not only on continuing decline in its tax base and the lack of private business activity within the city, but also criticism of widespread mismanagement. One example is the city's public school system, where officials failed to provide basic supplies to classrooms while the supplies were available in district warehouses. In 1996, the system's superintendent was criticized for fiscal mismanagement after he revealed an unanticipated $25-million deficit in the school budget.
Kwame Kilpatrick’latest remake of Detroit 12-19-06 is to start remoldling neighborhoods. I wonder if this starts with the crack house that people were killed at (12-18-06). I wonder if Mr. Kilpatrick is proud of the new murder reports that has just been released.
(6-20-08)
I wonder if the people of Detroit are proud of the (soon to be prison bound) Mayor.
1974-1993 Coleman Young
1993-2001 Dennis Archer
2002-2008 Kwame Kilpatrick (Prison)
Kenneth Cockrel Jr.
Present Dave Bing
Zimbabwe:
The economy is now in freefall. Half the workforce is unemployed; hyper-inflation was 252 per cent in 2004, the GDP contracted by 13 per year in the same year. There are four main reasons: a catastrophic decline in the value of the Zimbabwean dollar; the chaos in the vital agricultural and agro-industrial sectors caused by Government policies on land redistribution; the drought that is afflicting the entire region; and the growing impact of the very high rates of HIV/AIDS infection on the workforce. Approximately two-thirds of the population face food shortages. The situation is now extremely serious and the immediate prospects of recovery are virtually zero without radical political change. Under other circumstances, Zimbabwe would have one of the most diverse and best-performing economies on the African continent.
The agricultural base relies on tobacco and other cash crops, including sugar, coffee, cotton and maize, as the main export earners. Livestock rearing is also important. The mining industry produces gold and nickel, mainly for export, as well as smaller quantities of a host of other minerals including silver, emeralds, lithium, tin, iron ore, manganese, cobalt, coal, diamonds and a number of rare metals. Large coal deposits and hydroelectric plants supply the country’s power stations. Manufacturing industry was well developed by regional standards: food processing, metals, chemicals and textiles were the main components. In the service sector, tourism grew rapidly in the period after independence. Worth $200 million in 2002, the industry has all but vanished.
Despite majority-rule, whites made up less than 1% of the population but held 70% of the country's commercially viable arable land. Land redistribution reemerged as the vital issue beginning in 1999. The forced removal of the white farmers caused sharp rises in prices of agricultural commodities such as corn and sugar, and the collapse of Zimbabwe's economy.
Zimbabwe is a republic, with an executive president and a bicameral Parliament. Under constitutional changes in 2005, an upper chamber, the Senate, was reinstated. The House of Assembley is the lower chamber of Parliament.
Zanu PF Robert Mugabe, elected Prime Minister in 1980, revised the constitution in 1987 to make himself President. President Mugabe's affiliated party has won every election since independence on April 18, 1980. In some quarters corruption and rigging elections have been alleged. In particular, the elections of 1990 were nationally and internationally condemned as being rigged, with the second-placed party, Edgar Tekere’s Zimbabwe Unity Movement, winning only 20% of the vote. Presidential elections were last held in 2002 amid allegations of vote-rigging, intimidation, and fraud. The next Presidential elections are to be held in 2008.
(Jeff Koinange)CNN
(CNN) -- Twelve-year-old Beatrice returns from the fields with small animals she's caught for dinner.
Her mother, Elizabeth, prepares the meat and cooks it on a grill made of three stones supporting a wood fire. It's just enough food, she says, to feed her starving family of six.
Tonight, they dine on rats.
"Look what we've been reduced to eating?" she said. "How can my children eat rats in a country that used to export food? This is a tragedy."
This is a story about how Zimbabwe, once dubbed southern Africa's bread basket, has in six short years become a basket case. It is about a country that once exported surplus food now apparently falling apart, with many residents scrounging for rodents to survive.
According to the CIA fact book, which profiles the countries of the world, the Zimbabwean economy is crashing -- inflation was at least 585 percent by the end of 2005 -- and the nation now must import food.
Zimbabwe's ambassador to United States, Machivenyika Mapuranga, told CNN on Tuesday that reports of people eating rats unfairly represented the situation, adding that at times while he grew up his family ate rodents.
"The eating of the field mice -- Zimbabweans do that. It is a delicacy," he said. "It is misleading to portray the eating of field mice as an act of desperation. It is not."
Western journalists aren't allowed in Zimbabwe. CNN gained access via a cameraman who operated under the radar of the Zimbabwean government. Mapuranga said that there are news agencies allowed to film there but that the country was "under siege" by media outlets like CNN and the BBC, "which have shown themselves to be hostile to the people of Zimbabwe."
Critics: Mugabe rules with iron fist
Critics point to one man for the nation's downfall -- 82-year-old President Robert Mugabe, one of the longest-serving rulers in Africa. They say he rules with an iron fist and has reduced Zimbabwe to a nation of beggars.
On Friday, Mugabe downplayed the situation in the country.
"I know we are in difficult times; it's hard times that we are going through. You are bearing a fair share of the burden, we know that [but] Zimbabwe will never collapse," he told a meeting of his ruling political party, the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front, or ZANU - PF, according to Reuters.
But Shadrack Gutto, of the Center for International Political Studies, said Zimbabwe is on the verge of collapse.
"The reality is it's really grinding down and not improving," he said.
The downslide began, critics say, in 2000 when the government crippled the country's prime commercial farms by running off white farmers and redistributing the land to Mugabe's cronies. At least a dozen white farmers were killed and dozens were injured and hospitalized. Thousands more fled the country and the land. Most of that land now lies empty and abandoned.
Mapuranga said the program was "the greatest thing that has happened to Zimbabwe."
The ambassador said the Africans who had been marginalized by whites before can now own land and control natural resources.
"This generation may suffer, but we are actually laying the foundations of prosperity and Zimbabwean control," he said.
Mugabe's political rivals have been neutralized. The official opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, has been fractured by infighting and disunity. Its leader, former trade unionist Morgan Tvasngirai, just barely survived being convicted of treason after a video was released showing him discussing plans for the supposed "elimination" of Mugabe.
Last year, a few months after the presidential election, the government of Zimbabwe bulldozed homes and businesses in the capital of Harare. It was called "Operation Murambatsvina," which in the local Shona language means "Drive Out Rubbish." The United Nations said more than 700,000 people were left homeless, and critics say they were targeted for their political views.
'We live like animals'
In the midst of the rubble that litters the once-scenic capital, Winnie Gondo, a mother of five, uses any means available to survive. She lives in a burned-out vehicle.
Gondo told CNN she lost not only her home but a twin son, who died from the squalid conditions.
"I've lost everything," she said. "We live like animals here and there's no relief in sight."
Zimbabwe has been reduced to a nation of beggars, Archbishop of Bulawayo Pious Ncube said.
"Life has become extremely difficult in Zimbabwe and a lot of depression ... people are very much depressed and they can no longer think idealistically. They're looking all the time for food -- 'Where do I get my next meal,'" he said.
Ncube traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to show a video that he says details numerous cases of police brutality and illegal clamping down on anyone who opposes Mugabe.
The archbishop said that Mugabe wants to hold on to power, in part to avoid the same fate as Charles Taylor, who once ruled Liberia. After being forced from office in 2003, Taylor now is in a prison awaiting trial at The Hague, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Ncube believes that if Mugabe keeps control, Zimbabwe will continue to sink into an "abyss," and experts agree the only way the nation will eventually get off its knees is when a new president is elected.
"The key will be when Robert Mugabe moves out of the picture as a leader of Zimbabwe," Gutto said.
Until such time, Zimbabwe seems set to remain as a nation of food lines and fuel queues, of shacks and squatters, of rats and rat-eaters -- a nation fast grinding to a halt.
"I can't remember the last time I ate real food," says Elizabeth, the mother feeding her family. "We can't afford anything anymore. We're now just eating these rats to survive."
So what does these 2 cities and country have in common.
Benton Harbor had it all:
Major Tourist Center, Business Capital, and Industrial Center.
What does it have since the 1966 riots?
Detroit had it all:
The development of the automobile industry led to a massive increase in industrial production in the city. This in turn led to rising demands for labor, which were filled by huge numbers of newcomers from Europe and the American South. Between 1900 and 1930, the city's population soared from 265,000 to over 1.5 million. The landscape of the city also changed dramatically. Once known as the "Paris of the Midwest" for its tree-shaded avenues, the city took on a more blue-collar appearance as its riverfront became lined with factories and grain silos. At the same time, Detroit's downtown flourished architecturally, largely under the leadership of Albert Kahn , who designed a number of Art Deco skyscrapers. The city also experienced a cultural flowering, with a major expansion of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the founding of other institutions
What does it have after the election of Coleman Young?
Zimbabwe had it all:
Zimbabwe had one of the most diverse and best-performing economies on the African continent.
The agricultural base relies on tobacco and other cash crops, including sugar, coffee, cotton and maize, as the main export earners. Livestock rearing is also important. The mining industry produces gold and nickel, mainly for export, as well as smaller quantities of a host of other minerals including silver, emeralds, lithium, tin, iron ore, manganese, cobalt, coal, diamonds and a number of rare metals. Large coal deposits and hydroelectric plants supply the country’s power stations. Manufacturing industry was well developed by regional standards: food processing, metals, chemicals and textiles were the main components. In the service sector, tourism grew rapidly in the period after independence. Worth $200 million in 2002
What does Zimbabwe have after the land grab by Robert Mugabe?
The UNITED STATES of AMERICA “HAS/HAD IT ALL”
What will the UNITED STATES of AMERICA have after Barack Husain Obama?
Detroit Michigan
Zimbabwe, Africa
United States of America
What do these 2 cities 1 country & maybe another Country have in common?
Benton Harbor, Michigan
The Benton Township police are still largely white, although now they have a Black chief of police, Jim Coburn, and the city of Benton Harbor has a Black Mayor and city council, black police chief and other civic officials. It was apparently the 1966 Black revolt which caused many whites, both business and political leaders, along with white citizens generally, to bolt the city of Benton Harbor and make the trek to St. Joseph and other predominately white cities in the county. Thousands of whites left the city, apparently no longer feeling safe and in control of Benton Harbor. Races in Benton Harbor:
Black (92.4%)
White Non-Hispanic (5.4%)
Two or more races (1.7%)
American Indian (0.8%)
Hispanic (0.6%)
Jesse Jackson visited the town, allegedly to help restore peace. According to the Associated Press, Jackson told a gathering of 200 that they should "turn tragedy into triumph" and stated "we'll turn this crisis into an opportunity."
The type of opportunities for which Mr. Jackson is most famous are racial shakedowns which result in large donations to his organization and/or the award of lucrative business opportunities to his family and friends.
Following one "peace keeping opportunity" Mr. Jackson's family ended up with a very lucrative beer distributorship in Chicago.
God help Benton Harbor.
One police officer told Adversity.Net that Jackson's remarks were remarkably muted and non-confrontational. The officer also told us that the police are very grateful that so far Al Sharpton has not made a threatened appearance in Benton Harbor.
Benton Harbor, when it was white-ruled, had been the most prosperous city in Berrien County. It was a major tourist center, business capital, and industrial center. All during the 1930, 1940’s and 1950’s, Blacks from Arkansas, Tennessee, and other Southern states flocked to the city to work in its industrial and manufacturing plants. The Blacks had no political power, but at least they had jobs and opportunity. There was a burgeoning Black community that traded among itself, created their own culture, and made the best of it.
It was apparently the 1966 Black revolt which caused many whites, both business and political leaders, along with white citizens generally, to bolt the city of Benton Harbor and make the trek to St. Joseph and other predominately white cities in the county. Thousands of whites left the city, apparently no longer feeling safe and in control of Benton Harbor.
Consider that there is only 2% unemployment in St. Joseph, while over 50% unemployment in Benton Harbor among youth and adults alike, many of whom have not had a job in years.
This is how the locals want to solve Benton Harbor’s problems.
I’m surprised that asking the Federal Government to bail them out. After all Benton Harbor was a prosperous lovely city. The “White” Federal, State & Local Government must have caused all the problems. Has anyone ever thought “the people” caused the problems and if they tried they could solve the problems.
1. Write Gov. Jennifer Granholm: email: jennifer.granholm@michigan.gov P.O. Box 30013, Lansing, MI 48909), and demand that she appoint a special prosecutor to prosecute these racist cops, investigate police behavior in Benton Harbor, and compensate the victims and/or their families of police murders.
2. Send donations to the civil rights groups which are protesting this racist police brutality, the Southwest Michigan Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality, P.O. Box 19962, Kalamazoo, MI 49019, and the Benton Harbor BANCO, 1940 Union, Benton Harbor, MI 49022.
3. Support the boycott against the Whirlpool Corporation and its products until it works to end economic apartheid and racist redlining of the Black community of Benton Harbor.
4. Support the boycott against the tourism industry in St. Joseph, Michigan.
Detroit Michigan:
Population increase
The development of the automobile industry led to a massive increase in industrial production in the city. This in turn led to rising demands for labor, which were filled by huge numbers of newcomers from Europe and the American South. Between 1900 and 1930, the city's population soared from 265,000 to over 1.5 million. The landscape of the city also changed dramatically. Once known as the "Paris of the Midwest" for its tree-shaded avenues, the city took on a more blue-collar appearance as its riverfront became lined with factories and grain silos. At the same time, Detroit's downtown flourished architecturally, largely under the leadership of Albert Kahn, who designed a number of Art Deco skyscrapers. The city also experienced a cultural flowering, with a major expansion of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the founding of other institutions.
Labor disputes
With the factories came high-profile labor strife, climaxing in the 1930s as the United Auto Workers initiated bitter battles with Detroit's auto manufacturers. The labor activism established during those years, which brought fame and notoriety to hometown union leaders such as Jimmy Hoffa and Walter Reuther, remains a key feature on the city's cultural and political landscape.
Urban decline
Detroit endured a painful decline in the early 1970's, and was often held up as a symbol of Rust Belt urban blight. After peaking in 1950 with 1.85 million residents, the city's population plummeted when residents moved to the suburbs.
The 12th Street Riot in 1967 and court-ordered busing accelerated "white flight" from the city. Large numbers of buildings and homes were abandoned, with many remaining for years in states of decay. Recent urban renewal efforts have led to the demolition and renovation of abandoned buildings, the razing of old houses for new housing developments, and an expedited process to remove abandoned homes near schools. Abandoned buildings remain in many blighted areas. With the large number of homes razed, sizeable tracts have reverted back to nature to become a form urban prairie. Wild animals have been spotted migrating from their destroyed former habitat in the suburbs to the city.
The percentage of black residents increased rapidly and the first black mayor, Coleman Young, was elected in 1973. Young's style during his record four terms in office was not well received by many white Detroiters.
During the latter half of the 20th century, Detroit's crime figures were often among the highest in the country. Though those figures have decreased in recent years, the crime rate remains high, and the murder rate partly caused by gang-related activity was one of the highest in the United States. Though the 1960s saw the rise of heroin, use leveled off as the population declined. The Detroit gang Young Boys Inc. was formed in the 1970s and introduced a crack cocaine epidemic and produced collateral property crimes. Violence was common as competing drug dealers fought for territory.
In addition to property tax, the city levies an income tax of 2.65% on residents, 1.325% on non-residents, and 1.6% on corporations. Revenue is also obtained from utility taxes, hotel excises and from the Detroit-owned Water and Sewer system that provides most of the fresh water and wastewater treatment facilities within the metropolitan area. Detroit has had to fight off legislative efforts to turn control of the system to the suburbs.
With a decreasing population and decline in the automotive industry, the city's finances have been adversely affected. The city has cut its workforce and closed operations to avoid state-ordered receivership. In addition, Detroit has demanded pay cuts and other dramatic "give backs" from the municipal unions that represent city employees.]
Detroit is hampered not only on continuing decline in its tax base and the lack of private business activity within the city, but also criticism of widespread mismanagement. One example is the city's public school system, where officials failed to provide basic supplies to classrooms while the supplies were available in district warehouses. In 1996, the system's superintendent was criticized for fiscal mismanagement after he revealed an unanticipated $25-million deficit in the school budget.
Kwame Kilpatrick’latest remake of Detroit 12-19-06 is to start remoldling neighborhoods. I wonder if this starts with the crack house that people were killed at (12-18-06). I wonder if Mr. Kilpatrick is proud of the new murder reports that has just been released.
(6-20-08)
I wonder if the people of Detroit are proud of the (soon to be prison bound) Mayor.
1974-1993 Coleman Young
1993-2001 Dennis Archer
2002-2008 Kwame Kilpatrick (Prison)
Kenneth Cockrel Jr.
Present Dave Bing
Zimbabwe:
The economy is now in freefall. Half the workforce is unemployed; hyper-inflation was 252 per cent in 2004, the GDP contracted by 13 per year in the same year. There are four main reasons: a catastrophic decline in the value of the Zimbabwean dollar; the chaos in the vital agricultural and agro-industrial sectors caused by Government policies on land redistribution; the drought that is afflicting the entire region; and the growing impact of the very high rates of HIV/AIDS infection on the workforce. Approximately two-thirds of the population face food shortages. The situation is now extremely serious and the immediate prospects of recovery are virtually zero without radical political change. Under other circumstances, Zimbabwe would have one of the most diverse and best-performing economies on the African continent.
The agricultural base relies on tobacco and other cash crops, including sugar, coffee, cotton and maize, as the main export earners. Livestock rearing is also important. The mining industry produces gold and nickel, mainly for export, as well as smaller quantities of a host of other minerals including silver, emeralds, lithium, tin, iron ore, manganese, cobalt, coal, diamonds and a number of rare metals. Large coal deposits and hydroelectric plants supply the country’s power stations. Manufacturing industry was well developed by regional standards: food processing, metals, chemicals and textiles were the main components. In the service sector, tourism grew rapidly in the period after independence. Worth $200 million in 2002, the industry has all but vanished.
Despite majority-rule, whites made up less than 1% of the population but held 70% of the country's commercially viable arable land. Land redistribution reemerged as the vital issue beginning in 1999. The forced removal of the white farmers caused sharp rises in prices of agricultural commodities such as corn and sugar, and the collapse of Zimbabwe's economy.
Zimbabwe is a republic, with an executive president and a bicameral Parliament. Under constitutional changes in 2005, an upper chamber, the Senate, was reinstated. The House of Assembley is the lower chamber of Parliament.
Zanu PF Robert Mugabe, elected Prime Minister in 1980, revised the constitution in 1987 to make himself President. President Mugabe's affiliated party has won every election since independence on April 18, 1980. In some quarters corruption and rigging elections have been alleged. In particular, the elections of 1990 were nationally and internationally condemned as being rigged, with the second-placed party, Edgar Tekere’s Zimbabwe Unity Movement, winning only 20% of the vote. Presidential elections were last held in 2002 amid allegations of vote-rigging, intimidation, and fraud. The next Presidential elections are to be held in 2008.
(Jeff Koinange)CNN
(CNN) -- Twelve-year-old Beatrice returns from the fields with small animals she's caught for dinner.
Her mother, Elizabeth, prepares the meat and cooks it on a grill made of three stones supporting a wood fire. It's just enough food, she says, to feed her starving family of six.
Tonight, they dine on rats.
"Look what we've been reduced to eating?" she said. "How can my children eat rats in a country that used to export food? This is a tragedy."
This is a story about how Zimbabwe, once dubbed southern Africa's bread basket, has in six short years become a basket case. It is about a country that once exported surplus food now apparently falling apart, with many residents scrounging for rodents to survive.
According to the CIA fact book, which profiles the countries of the world, the Zimbabwean economy is crashing -- inflation was at least 585 percent by the end of 2005 -- and the nation now must import food.
Zimbabwe's ambassador to United States, Machivenyika Mapuranga, told CNN on Tuesday that reports of people eating rats unfairly represented the situation, adding that at times while he grew up his family ate rodents.
"The eating of the field mice -- Zimbabweans do that. It is a delicacy," he said. "It is misleading to portray the eating of field mice as an act of desperation. It is not."
Western journalists aren't allowed in Zimbabwe. CNN gained access via a cameraman who operated under the radar of the Zimbabwean government. Mapuranga said that there are news agencies allowed to film there but that the country was "under siege" by media outlets like CNN and the BBC, "which have shown themselves to be hostile to the people of Zimbabwe."
Critics: Mugabe rules with iron fist
Critics point to one man for the nation's downfall -- 82-year-old President Robert Mugabe, one of the longest-serving rulers in Africa. They say he rules with an iron fist and has reduced Zimbabwe to a nation of beggars.
On Friday, Mugabe downplayed the situation in the country.
"I know we are in difficult times; it's hard times that we are going through. You are bearing a fair share of the burden, we know that [but] Zimbabwe will never collapse," he told a meeting of his ruling political party, the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front, or ZANU - PF, according to Reuters.
But Shadrack Gutto, of the Center for International Political Studies, said Zimbabwe is on the verge of collapse.
"The reality is it's really grinding down and not improving," he said.
The downslide began, critics say, in 2000 when the government crippled the country's prime commercial farms by running off white farmers and redistributing the land to Mugabe's cronies. At least a dozen white farmers were killed and dozens were injured and hospitalized. Thousands more fled the country and the land. Most of that land now lies empty and abandoned.
Mapuranga said the program was "the greatest thing that has happened to Zimbabwe."
The ambassador said the Africans who had been marginalized by whites before can now own land and control natural resources.
"This generation may suffer, but we are actually laying the foundations of prosperity and Zimbabwean control," he said.
Mugabe's political rivals have been neutralized. The official opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, has been fractured by infighting and disunity. Its leader, former trade unionist Morgan Tvasngirai, just barely survived being convicted of treason after a video was released showing him discussing plans for the supposed "elimination" of Mugabe.
Last year, a few months after the presidential election, the government of Zimbabwe bulldozed homes and businesses in the capital of Harare. It was called "Operation Murambatsvina," which in the local Shona language means "Drive Out Rubbish." The United Nations said more than 700,000 people were left homeless, and critics say they were targeted for their political views.
'We live like animals'
In the midst of the rubble that litters the once-scenic capital, Winnie Gondo, a mother of five, uses any means available to survive. She lives in a burned-out vehicle.
Gondo told CNN she lost not only her home but a twin son, who died from the squalid conditions.
"I've lost everything," she said. "We live like animals here and there's no relief in sight."
Zimbabwe has been reduced to a nation of beggars, Archbishop of Bulawayo Pious Ncube said.
"Life has become extremely difficult in Zimbabwe and a lot of depression ... people are very much depressed and they can no longer think idealistically. They're looking all the time for food -- 'Where do I get my next meal,'" he said.
Ncube traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to show a video that he says details numerous cases of police brutality and illegal clamping down on anyone who opposes Mugabe.
The archbishop said that Mugabe wants to hold on to power, in part to avoid the same fate as Charles Taylor, who once ruled Liberia. After being forced from office in 2003, Taylor now is in a prison awaiting trial at The Hague, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Ncube believes that if Mugabe keeps control, Zimbabwe will continue to sink into an "abyss," and experts agree the only way the nation will eventually get off its knees is when a new president is elected.
"The key will be when Robert Mugabe moves out of the picture as a leader of Zimbabwe," Gutto said.
Until such time, Zimbabwe seems set to remain as a nation of food lines and fuel queues, of shacks and squatters, of rats and rat-eaters -- a nation fast grinding to a halt.
"I can't remember the last time I ate real food," says Elizabeth, the mother feeding her family. "We can't afford anything anymore. We're now just eating these rats to survive."
So what does these 2 cities and country have in common.
Benton Harbor had it all:
Major Tourist Center, Business Capital, and Industrial Center.
What does it have since the 1966 riots?
Detroit had it all:
The development of the automobile industry led to a massive increase in industrial production in the city. This in turn led to rising demands for labor, which were filled by huge numbers of newcomers from Europe and the American South. Between 1900 and 1930, the city's population soared from 265,000 to over 1.5 million. The landscape of the city also changed dramatically. Once known as the "Paris of the Midwest" for its tree-shaded avenues, the city took on a more blue-collar appearance as its riverfront became lined with factories and grain silos. At the same time, Detroit's downtown flourished architecturally, largely under the leadership of Albert Kahn , who designed a number of Art Deco skyscrapers. The city also experienced a cultural flowering, with a major expansion of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the founding of other institutions
What does it have after the election of Coleman Young?
Zimbabwe had it all:
Zimbabwe had one of the most diverse and best-performing economies on the African continent.
The agricultural base relies on tobacco and other cash crops, including sugar, coffee, cotton and maize, as the main export earners. Livestock rearing is also important. The mining industry produces gold and nickel, mainly for export, as well as smaller quantities of a host of other minerals including silver, emeralds, lithium, tin, iron ore, manganese, cobalt, coal, diamonds and a number of rare metals. Large coal deposits and hydroelectric plants supply the country’s power stations. Manufacturing industry was well developed by regional standards: food processing, metals, chemicals and textiles were the main components. In the service sector, tourism grew rapidly in the period after independence. Worth $200 million in 2002
What does Zimbabwe have after the land grab by Robert Mugabe?
The UNITED STATES of AMERICA “HAS/HAD IT ALL”
What will the UNITED STATES of AMERICA have after Barack Husain Obama?
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