Closing tabs and windows 2--two Detroit links

[darksumomo]

Last installment of the closing of excess tabs and windows for today--two links that are about Detroit, or rather what the city means to the rest of the country.

First, the Good.

For more than 24 hours, 2010 Detroit Auto Show: The ladies of NAIAS was the most popular story on the Detroit edition of the Examiner.com. Gee, I wonder why.

Comments

[underlankers]

What's really sad about things with Detroit is that to me, at least, much of what goes on with it is a lot of hand-wringing and tear-shedding but precious little actual shit getting done. It in a way typifies what Nebs said about Haiti a while back....

[darksumomo]

Outsiders, as a group, aren't going to do shit to help Detroit, and the locals have figured this out. Watching the Senate turn down the bailout that the Bush Administration proposed just cemented that awareness for many. Instead, Detroiters have figured out that they'll have to do it all themselves.

As for Haiti, I don't suppose you read bradhicks? If you don't, you should. He has a great rant about Haiti, some of which applies to Detroit as well.

[underlankers]

I hope they can do it. On the other hand, Somaliland has been a viable and effective peacefully governed state run by Somalis for quite some time now and nobody really cares about them.

No, I don't, but I will check it out. I do like what bits I've read of his journal, though.

[underlankers]

And his point is a lot longer and more detailed than my own thoughts on the matter as seen in this comment here, but we did more or less have the same thoughts on it:

http://mahnmut.livejournal.com/130063.html?thread=483855#t483855

[darksumomo]

That entry appears to be friends-locked, so I can't read it unless you copy and paste it as a comment here.

[underlankers]

My bad. *facepalm.*

Here it is:

Eh.....given that we caused said poverty in the first place by imposing 19th Century sanctions on a bunch of desperately poor people ostracized for being successful revolutionaries, refused to recognize it until after the Civil War, and then did all that you say we did (our supporting the Duvaliers ranks as especially evil)......why would we?

The USA is far from good at analyzing its own ills on the national level.