Went to school in Detroit and worked downtown. Spent some years building schools for the Detroit Board of Education. We would build a new school and it would be trashed in two weeks - windows gone, sinks cracked, copper pipe broken out and stolen, and (my favorite) bathroom doors broken off. You can blame Detroit's problems on a lack of planning by the city fathers but the decay is deeper seated than that. At the risk of looking like I am trying to make a political point, there are a lot of parallels between Detroit and the present decline of the United States. My only source of optimism is that we can't all run away from the US.
Went to school in Detroit and worked downtown. Spent some years building schools for the Detroit Board of Education. We would build a new school and it would be trashed in two weeks - windows gone, sinks cracked, copper pipe broken out and stolen, and (my favorite) bathroom doors broken off. You can blame Detroit's problems on a lack of planning by the city fathers but the decay is deeper seated than that. At the risk of looking like I am trying to make a political point, there are a lot of parallels between Detroit and the present decline of the United States. My only source of optimism is that we can't all run away from the US.
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