Robert B. Reich urges "People's Republic of Haven" Plan to Save Detroit

[jordan179]

From "Just Spread Detroit's Failure, Why Don't Ya" by J. Robert Smith in American Thinker:

Robert B. Reich, the little man with big liberal ideas, has a big idea for bailing out Detroit. It's a simple big idea, which just goes to show Reich's genius. Great thinkers get to the nub of things.

In a nutshell, Reich wants to make things right in

Comments

[st_rev]

Robert Reich is history's worst monster.

[jordan179]

Well, no, but the plan he's urging counts as Stupid Evil -- or perhaps just stupid -- because it would only spread the misery, and mostly to innocents, rather than genuinely improve the situtation. This is especially objectionable because he claims to understand economics.

[tara_li]

If his thesis is that the suburbanites are getting benefits from the city that they're not paying for, then the obvious legitimate solution is to wall it up and charge for entry. Maybe charge for how long you stay in... of course, if you *live* there, you could fly out on business or some such, but if you left, didn't return, and tried to have an agent sell your assets, you would be liable for double or some such...

[sp23]

Interesting that the man's name is "Reich", and his philosophy seems to be, "Just give us the Sudetenland, and we'll be happy."

[jordan179]

He can't help his name, but I've had the same thought myself more than once, dating back to at least the 1990's when he first became prominent.

[metaphorsbwithu]

So illustrative of the "progressive", liberal, left-wing, statist, utopian mentality.

It's the Constitution turned on its head - where the central government, authorized with limited and enumerated powers through the consent of the States, empowers itself extra-Constitutionally, more and more through the years, until it turns on those who are the source of its power and the rule of law is in shreds.

[ford_prefect42]

Have you been following the news? To pretend that any vestiges of the constitution have even the modest pretense of carrying force is beyond asinine.

Have I followed the news?

[metaphorsbwithu]

Do you live in a closet?

Anyone who would use the words "beyond asinine" in any context associated with my name, without an inkling of my posts,comments and commentary, here and elsewhere over the last 6 years, is ... "beyond asinine".

Surrender if you will.

As for me, I will continue to defend the Constitution if I am the last man standing - although I don't think I will.

Re: Have I followed the news?

[ford_prefect42]

There's nothing left to defend. It's not a mater of "surrendering", it's a matter of *pronouncing*. The patient has not shown a heartbeat in 5 years, brain activity flatlined in 2010, and it's room temperature. What is left to "fight for"? There is not *one* of the bill of rights that is still in force, the concept of limited powers is openly laughed at by the *top* leadership of this country, all our communications are monitored, openly, Americans are murdered outright without the slightest hint of due process, we fight wars without even *informing* congress, we put people on trial on absolutely fraudulent narratives, while the media continues to repeat baldfaced lies and most people believe them, 2000 terrorists were sprung from prisons all over the middle east and I'll bet you didn't even hear a *word* of it!

You can keep pumping that chest if you like, scream "clear" a few more times, but the fact is, he's dead Jim.

[luagha]

Not mention that Detroit was already doing this and it failed.

Hamtramck is walled in as a defense from Detroit when they refused. But Detroit managed to take in many other suburbs and unincorporated areas already, forcing inhabitants to flee further.

[oxymoron02]

#2 reminds me of a conversation with my local school district about student assignment. They move kids around based on socioeconomic status, and the rich people are opting out by just sending their kids to private schools.

I'm opting out by homeschooling. Homeschooling saves me about $2k a year.