So I don't understand why more people are not scared to hell at what is happening in Detroit and Chicago... The same attitude towards policy and law making was used there over the past 50 years as is currently being used in DC. Liberal politicians claiming to have the public's best interest at heart by giving them handouts and huge pensions and increasing Taxes on the "Wealthy". So here's what happened, increasing taxes and operation costs on Big Business caused the big three to start opening plants in other states with friendlier taxes, Taxes increased on the "Wealthy" caused them to move to greener pastures (partly the cause of the 1 million+ person population drop over the past 50 yrs). So what I'm seeing is that when Taxes increase to pay for govt run handout programs, people who have the means to leave do so, leaving those who are now reliant on these programs (and do not have the means to leave) without funding and driving the city into larger and larger deficits (sound familiar?). So currently we are loosing immigrant Doctors at an alarming rate (I personally know 2 Indian DO's and 1 German MD who are returning to their birth countries and renouncing citizenship) and soon that is likely to follow suit with more American born doctors leaving for greener pastures. This is just one area where we are loosing the "Wealthy" people (who are the ones who pay the rest of us) due to persecution from the government. Reagan stated that the closest thing to becoming immortal is to create a government social program well that needs to change. The government is bloated, overbearing, and frequently undermining our constitution. The Current White House is a sham with so many scandals and conspiracies that the "Evil" GW would have been burned at the stake for them (But not good 'ol Barry). If they have not already they will soon have lined their pockets enough to weather a complete fiscal collapse of the USA while we are left to flounder. I dunno I am so fed up with this administration that I can barely watch the news anymore from fear of what they are doing next. I think the Chicago and Detroit failures should be seen by everyone as an example of what happens when socialistic govt policies run the govt deficits through the roof because that is NOT the govt's debt.... it's OURS!
First, there were significant concerns raised beforehand about the security in Benghazi. It may have been due to bad luck, or maybe incompetence on the part of the various agencies that nothing was done. While we don't like it, we are used to this type of performance by government officials. Second, when the thing went down, nothing was done. There were people begging for help and nobody who was in a position to do anything about it could get permission from Washington to move. Our embassy and ambassador were under attack and Obama sat on his ass. This was inexcusable. Third, after the whole mess was over, nobody has been able to get a straight answer about how this was allowed to happen. The administration is just doiing the roper doper waiting for people to forget about this. I find the whole affair disgusting and unfortunately normal for this administration. That anyone could defend this fries my brain. There is no hope for the future if this kind of performance by our government officals is considered accepable.
Oh and be careful as these things tend to breed on their own. I purchased a .22 rifle for my daughter a couple years ago when she started to be interested in shooting sports. Now we have that rifle, another .22 rifle, a .243 hunting rifle, a 12 ga shotgun, a 28 ga. shotgun, (2) .22 pistols, a .38 pistol and a 9mm pistol. When you invest in a gun safe, or at the least a cabinet to keep it in, buy as big as you can afford, or have room for.
Very little of the exodus had anything to do with taxes in Detroit. I was there when it started. It started when Detroit's Mayor went on TV and said 'If the white people don't like me they can move out'. We were all WTF, ok cya. It was all racial man, the big hit was in the late 70's and early 80's. The black mayor pretty much declared war on white folk. I may get flamed, but that is what happened. You had to be there, it was amazing.