Re: New "What Ifs?"

Posted by Tim Cole On 2014/8/11 17:17:11

I'm confident all of the car business will be gone in 30 years. For one, the American car market is shrinking from a relentless decline in the standard of living. Next, maintaining the huge infrastructure in an abandoned city like Detroit is impossible. The place is surrounded by lakes and yet the cost of water is among the highest in the nation. The roads are dilapidated and hazardous and the insurance rates through the roof. Crime and drugs are the main source of income, but even the drug dealers are going broke. The only reason to live here is the shortage of skilled labor which is expected to disappear in a couple of years when the companies are expected to get into trouble again. Everybody here lives with a suitcase in the closet.
The municipal governments are also collapsing into bankruptcy.

Nothing sensible will come from Washington D.C. (Stands for Doesn't Care) and the Federal Government spends 30 cents more per dollar than they take in. Eventually there will be a crash and they will try to suspend the bill of rights, but by then the cops will all be on minimum wage and won't do anything.

We all joke that hopefully we'll be dead by then.

Consider this example of how bad things are: In 1991 a school teacher in greater Dearborn earned $26 an hour. Today that figure is $16. I work with people who have higher degrees and we all joke that the rate being paid to scientists and engineers is not worth the headache. In the last bankrupt place I worked as a scientist the only thing they cared about was butt kissing. Then there was the big crash. Today they are gone.