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BoiJen -> RE: The idea of turning Detroit into farmland... (5/8/2010 5:21:47 AM)
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Again...where does the money come to pay for the equipment rental and liability, the labor, the clean up, the gas to run the damned dozer?
Fabulous idea! I'm so behind it's not even funny but you still can't answer the question. So add something productive or shut it.
To me this is the same shit as telling those unemployed in Detroit to just go get a job. You can't when there simply isn't even a fuckin McDonald's hiring in the city. Well then go get an education and better yourself. If you do that, you loose your unemployment compensation...if you ever had any or haven't run out yet...and your only ability to pay bills. So a piece of paper saying "I'm smarter" is great while you're now on food stamps and homeless. You put that up to anybody with half a brain and they're gonna tell they'll take paying their rent over borrowing money they have to pay back to pay for tuition.
And the very best part of all of this is that a large part of this nations economic success and even the culture of this country (Motown Records baby!) over the last century is on the back of Detroit. And when Detroit needs help to survive, Detroit is left behind in rubble without even the courtesy to help at least tear down the abandoned buildings.
Please, before you go spouting about something you clearly don't know damned thing about, consider educating yourself simply on the physical topography of the area in which you wish to make frivolous mandates.
Hell, at the guys at UrbanFarming are attempting something that seems to be working on other localized economies and neighborhoods instead of sitting on their thumbs going "just plow it down...just plow it down...just plow it down.... I don't know anything about fair labor laws and how to pay for it...but just plow it down."
Dude, when Detroit can't even fill it's damned pot holes and maintain it's streets because it doesn't have the money, how the hell can it afford to take out buildings?
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