Quote:
Originally Posted by powerclown
You people come fly in to Detroit this weekend and I'll take you on The Tour, as my ex-fellow employees used to joke about. Block after block of neigborhoods with cars worth 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of the houses they were parked in front of. I'm not saying they're all owned by welfare kings and queens; there's probably a middle manager or boss' kid in their somewhere...
|
Y'know, i go through Detroit often, and i have yet to see a really nice car in a poor neighbourhood. In fact, the number of vehicles is rather low. Parking is pretty easy, and not what you'd expect if everyone were driving fatass cars. Do you ever ride the bus in Detroit? I do, and i can tell you, by and large, who rides. It's people, who according to your view of things, ought to be riding the bus.
Does that comfort you?
The whole argument is absurd anyway. John Thain and his ilk were scamming you for millions and billions with the aid of yourveryownpreznitbush and you're worried that some sortafancy car in youridea of a bad neighbourhood belongs to someone who might be a Welfare Scammer? And how many Caddies could be bought with the money dumped down the shithole in Iraq and Afghanistan, money that would have been better spent on buying the whole country drugs -- the buzz being more real than any benefit derived from Iraq or Afghanistan adventures -- or even simply burnt in an immense potlatch?