Detroit files for bankruptcy

House for sale in Detroit, only a buck!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...home-sale-519-days-despite-market-just-1.html

 

And the good news for Detroit keeps on a comin'. Seems that folks with a <strike>brain</strike> decent car are discouraged from voting `cuz they pay a shitload more ca$h for car insurance if they are registered to vote in Detroit. Author saw his rates jump from 1700 to 3700 as he moved two stinkin' blocks. Meanwhile, Detroit has the highest property taxes of any major city in the USA. High crime? High taxes? Bad schools? Corrupt government? Sounds like a libtard's wet dream.

Auto rates drive Detroit voters into hiding

Alok Sharma analyzes data for a living. In 2010, he had a client, a politician, who was running for office and wanted to know whether it was worth his time to campaign door-to-door in Detroit’s high-rise apartment buildings. Sharma thought the answer might be found by running a high-rise address through the Qualified Voter File, a public document of every registered voter in Michigan. He chose his own: the Kales Building, with 18 floors overlooking Grand Circus Park and 116 one- and two-bedroom apartments.

It is, Sharma said, full of young professionals like him, as well as empty-nesters — just the type of middle-class people who are likely to be engaged, active voters. When Sharma looked, the building was fully occupied.

Yet he found only nine names in the Qualified Voter File — including his own.

With Detroit facing a city election this year under the shadow of a newly appointed state emergency manager, Bridge Magazine performed Sharma’s experiment with six other buildings in Detroit’s hot neighborhoods of downtown, Midtown and Corktown.

The results, while not as dramatic as Sharma’s at the Kales Building, show voter participation rates far below 64.7% — Michigan’s turnout in the 2012 general election — and even below the city’s turnout of 50%.

What’s more, there’s a widely agreed-upon reason for this self-disenfranchisement: not politics, but the high cost of auto insurance.

In insurance, Detroit address is costly

Vince Keenan, founder of Publius.org, a Michigan voter-education and civic-participation program, says the link between insurance rates and one’s registered address is “the most well-known single fact” about voting in Detroit. And he doesn’t like it.

“It’s an unintended consequence of Motor-Voter,” he said, or the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which tied voter registration to one’s driver’s license. “It was very successful at getting people registered, especially in Michigan, because we drive so much. But by marrying the two, we have to think about (the auto-insurance issue), and we shouldn’t have to. For a voter to have to worry about where their car insurance is, is stupid. We’ve made it easier to commit community fraud, where you’re living and working in a community that you’re not voting in, than to commit insurance fraud.”

Keenan knows the price of honesty from experience. In 2002, he moved two blocks — from one block north of Eight Mile Road, in Ferndale, to one block south, in Detroit, and saw his annual premium jump from $1,700 to $3,700.

More at:

http://www.freep.com/article/201308...-voting-auto-insurance-rates-turnout-election

 

You have a good point. Why aren't the bleeding heart lunatics coming to Detroit using their own $ to "help" that mess of a city? Hmmmm... Maybe Ben aflek can drive his $200,000 gas-guzzling v12 luxury car there, and lend some help...

 

Liberals are notoriously stingy with their own money.

 

Or at least buy some houses. Surely they believe that a hugely liberal city will eventually be a stellar success and here is the bottom. For some strange, unfathomable reason, they agree with us that this situation sucks and is unlikely to improve. Let some famous group of libtard actors move into the dollar house and live there for a few months. They'll burn Obama in effigy within a month.

BTW, looks like most (if not all) of the city council will get re-elected, LOL. They keep on votin' for the same race-baiting, shady MoFos that keep them in this mess, then the MSM starts talking about how Detroit has turned the corner - and this time they mean it!

Maybe they could raise taxes some more and let more criminals go, that should help. Oh, and spend a shitload of money on something fairly pointless, like a half a billion dollar ice rink.

LOL. If this were a movie everybody would be saying all the players are just too flaming stupid to be realistic. It'd be a flop, but not as big of a flop as Detroit.

 

Of course. Libtards like to spend OTHER people's money... to get other people to pay for the things they want.

 

Democrats got the Black vote entirely in their pocket during FDR's time in office. Blacks got Social Security and they switched party en masse`. They will allow Democrats to do ANYTHING as long as the government jobs and welfare money rolls in. Democrats will allow Blacks to do ANYTHING as long as they vote Democrat. Blacks love it that Democrats can award them legal superiority, and they love that ticket to the Jessie Jackson lottery. And this brings us to the subject at hand: Detroit, can a city be more horked up?

 

Stratification is distorting, and politics is not immune.

 

How much back property taxes are owed?

 

Is there no limit to the rationalizations you're willing to invent in order to avoid facing reality?