Monday, July 22, 2013

WHAT HAPPENED TO DETROIT?

Or, Voting With Their Wallets

No news here for my regular readers, but on the off chance that other morbid curiosity types happen along, let your Ostrich Killer make the Detroit bankruptcy simple to understand.

In 1907 or so the Detroit population broke through the 700,000 mark.  It became the nation's 4th largest city.  In 1960 or thereabouts it had the highest per capita income of any major metropolitan area in the US.  Its population topped 1.8 million.  Life was good.

Public sector unions negotiated for and got bigger pensions, better free health care, and more employees.  The pensions were massive, and instead of putting actual money aside, Detroit put IOUs into those pensions.  They didn't have the cash.  Some took notice of this, and it troubled them.

Motor city unions - UAW and others - negotiated for and got similar, or better, contracts.  And IOUs into their pension plans.  

Taxes went up to try to find money to pay for public expenses, many of which were 'pet' projects.  Bonds (IOUs) were sold.  

Law enforcement became a target for expense-cutters.  So did surface infrastructure.  Unions continued to negotiate for, and get, ever better pension plans - or, more accurately, even more IOUs.  

Intelligent people and successful entrepreneurs of any type living there saw the hand writing on the wall, and left with their bank accounts and businesses.  

People with money saw the ever tightening grip Detroit was taking on their wallets, and they too left.

Today Detroit is below 700,000 population again.  A 911 call average response time nationwide is 8 minutes.  In Detroit it is 57 minutes.  40% of Detroit street lights don't work.  These stats are directly from the governor's endorsement of the bankruptcy filing.

1.1 million people fled with their wallets and businesses.

Oh - those IOUs? Probably will be redeemed for pennies on the dollar, if at all.

This is a tragedy, but it can all be traced back to liberal policies.  Tax x and spend 3x.  Give-away programs.  Unions and the cowardly businesses who refused to say NO to them.

Rush Limbaugh said it well: "the parasites outgrew their host."

Predictable.  Stay tuned for Chicago, California, and many other historically liberal bastion cities and states.  And when that happens, remember that your Ostrich Killer was not the first to predict it.  All those people who voted with their wallets also predicted it.

Where do you live?  Take a look around you.  Think about your wallet.  If you don't like what you see, then cast your eyes to states like those in the midwest.  Texas.  The Dakotas.  South Carolina too.  Other 'right to work' states.  It's your wallet.  Take care of it for your family's sake.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

All You Need To Know About Trayvon

What's all the fuss about?

A common-variety street thug jumped the wrong guy and got justifiably capped for it.  End of story.

Except for two things:  he was black, and the guy he jumped wasn't.

What difference does that make, you logically and correctly ask? Well, apparently to the race-baiters like Sharpton and others, and many of the network so-called "news" anchors, the killing of a common-variety black street thug in self-defense is not news if the killer is also black.  It's only news if the killer is NOT black.

It also appears not to matter what sort of violent mischief the street thug was up to.  Far better, to these race-baiters, that Zimmerman had been killed instead.  He isn't black, after all.  Unless you're black, you simply can't kill a black, no matter what he was up to.

Let's leave aside the "quality of human being" issue for now, other than observing that the human race as a whole is better off that Zimmerman survived and Trayvon is now eligible for a Darwin award.  Let's ask the question:  why is it not news when a black kills a black or anyone else, but it's cause for riot when a non-black kills a black?

It's about money.  Networks sell more advertising by stirring up - or inciting - news.  It looks suspiciously like they'd like to see Zimmerman killed violently, because that would sell even more advertising for the necessary round-the-clock coverage.  Race-baiters like Sharpton raise more money from the black and wannabe black racist communities by fanning the flames of racial (black on non-black) hatred.

The corpse of Trayvon is being leveraged for cash flow.

And that's all you need to know.

But stay tuned to see what the black Attorney General and the black President try to do.  You can bet there'll be something. You've probably already seen headlines about "civil rights" investigations.  After all, you simply can't kill a black if you're not black.  Not and walk around freely.  No, sir.  Not in this country. Not on their watch.

Your color-blind but clear-seeing Ostrich Killer is now ready for another cup of coffee.