I received this email from a good friend yesterday, forwarded it to a few, printed it out so my wife could read it last night and thought about it more overnight. I am sharing this with you and hope you will pass it along to your friends and perhaps repost on your Facebook page as well.
A read well worth your time! Some of his thoughts may seem a bit strong to some of us, but if this can happen to Detroit, how do we keep a similar fate from destroying the rest of our country?
By Akindman
(Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist,
writer,
environmentalist, traveler)
By Frosty Wooldridge
For 15 years, from the mid
1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit, Michigan. I watched it descend into an
abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking,
gangs, and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched
graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash
everywhere!
Detroiter's walked through
it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds
of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!
With Aid to Dependent
Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman
birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American
taxpayer dollars.
A new child meant a new car
payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's 'Great
Society' flourish in Detroit. If you give money for doing nothing, you will get
more hands out taking money for doing nothing.
Mayor Coleman Young,
perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America outside of Richard Daley in Chicago,
rode Detroit down to its knees... He set the benchmark for cronyism,
incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, "I am the
MFIC." The IC meant "in charge".
You can figure out the rest
-- Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.
As a United Van Lines truck
driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of
American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.
Detroit plummeted from 1.8
million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal
immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000.
Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan, but most work in Detroit. As the
whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.
As the crimes became more
violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace.
Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in
many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a
knife! Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure
dislike, and total separation from America.
Today, you hear Muslim
calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of
Islamic mosques in Michigan, paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school
flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC's Brian
Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America. English? Few
speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.
Unemployment hit 28.9
percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine's
October 4, 2009 issue, "The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and
how it can rise again," I choked on the writer's description of what
happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a
ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said Daniel Okrent.
"If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we'd
see it on the evening news every night." Earthquake, tornadoes, you name
it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof
of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.
But Detroit, once our
fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its
disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest
of the country.
Even the death rattle that
in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to
the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been
victimized by their dreadful decision making."
As Coleman Young's
corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could
save the incredible payoffs, kickbacks and illegality permeating his
administration. I witnessed the city's death from the seat of my 18-wheeler
tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit.
"By any quantifiable
standard, the city is on life support. Detroit’s treasury is $300 million short
of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services," Okrent
said. "The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the
teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15
small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is
soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated
New Orleans, unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit today, the
unemployment rate is 28.9%. That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine
percent.
At the end of Okrent's
report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, "That's
because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city's collapse, it's
also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know
today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of
America in the 21st century.
If what was once the most
prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what
does that say about our recent past? And if it can't find a way to get up, what
does that say about America 's future?"
As you read in my book
review of Chris Steiner's book,"$20 Per Gallon", the auto industry
won't come back. Immigration will keep pouring more and more uneducated third
world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit, thus creating a beachhead
for Islamic hegemony in America . If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will
see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit. Illiteracy
plus Islam equals walking human bombs.
You have already seen it in
Madrid , Spain , London , England , and Paris with train bombings, subway
bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their
barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first
amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder.
We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that
demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer
beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect
from straying. Their Qu'ran (a.k.a. Koran) "holy book" calls for the
killing of all infidels (non-Muslims).
They all study and abide by the same book, so watch out America - they
are in our midst and GROWING. Our
President lavishes praises upon the Muslims and says "we are not at war
with the Muslims and never will be" Never?
Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture,
country and way of life.
I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS
THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON'T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON AND OUR
STATE, CITY AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA. IF YOU
THINK THE MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS AND OTHER FOREIGNERS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT
IN, THEN YOU ARE AS BIG A PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THEY ARE.
IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A
BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I'M SORRY.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL
TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT.
"Democracy is
two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed
lamb contesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin
"The trouble
with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's
money." - Margaret Thatcher
"When you
subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.." - James Dale
Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
"The more
corrupt the state, the more it legislates and regulates" - Tacitus
"A Liberal is a
person who will give away everything he doesn't own." - Unknown
THIS IS A TRAGEDY, AND NOTHING IS BEING DONE
ABOUT IT. DISGUSTING!! I DON'T KNOW HOW
OUR GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE KEEP DENYING WHAT HAS AND IS HAPPENING, AND DO
NOTHING ABOUT IT!!!!!
