Arkady's Thoughts

Steve Crowder's new video shows a chilling tale of a once prosperous and mighty city brought down to it's knees.  What is particularly interesting about Detroit is the general misconception about it's demise and if you were to ask the average American or perhaps even yourself - why is Detroit hurting - the typical answer would probably be:  struggling car companies.  While an explanation to something as complicated as to what can destroy an entire city is never one sided and often requires careful examination, there is a great deal of information to suggest that the struggling car companies may just be a small component of Detroit's fiscal and social ruin.  Crowder does a great job of tackling some of the key aspects of Detroit's failure and he pulls no punches on what he believes is the only and obvious culprit, government.  Not just any government, but liberal dominated government and the myriad of problems associated with leftist agendas including powerful ...

While I have many complaints that I have issued toward the Republican party, right now they are showing a certain amount of leadership that should be noted. The Big 3 (GM, Ford, Chrysler) are asking for 25 Billion dollars in bailout money. They are accusing the economy of destroying their business and furthermore threatening the country with devastation if they are allowed to fail. The truth is that the big 3 are destined to fail, they have created this situation themselves and it has nothing to do with the economy. The economy merely exposed their rotten infrastructure . Look at this: A blogger named Mark Perry wrote the following: "Total compensation per hour for the big-three car makers is $73.20. That’s a 52 percent differential from Toyota’s (Detroit South) $48 compensation (wages + health and retirement benefits). In fact, the over sized UAW-driven pay package for Detroit is 132 percent higher than that of the entire manufacturing sector of the U.S., which comes in at $31....