Detroit's decrepit Packard Plant is famous for many things. Auto workers used to make Packards there, hence the name. They stopped doing that in 1958. Then it became this stupid metaphorical abstraction used by parachute journalists to describe all of Detroit's suffering and problems.
Three words for you: Battersea Power Station. By which I mean to say, urban decay leading to blight is pretty much a universal phenomenon in cities, and it takes a determined, coordinated effort by local and regional/national governments and the private sector (in a non-command economy) to reverse it.
Detroit is different from parts of London, Newcastle (NSW <em>or</em> -upon-Tyne), Birmingham, Belfast and countless other cities only in that it was allowed to go further and still hasn&#039;t been turned around, for reasons that it&#039;s impossible to believe have nothing to do with race.
To the extent (you&#039;d be surprised) that the closing of the Packard plant is Obama&#039;s fault, Fucks Gnus will somehow find the Nazi connection. And if they can&#039;t do it, Rush Limpblob or the freepers can surely pull it off.
Why go third party? Ford&#039;s mentioned in <em>Mein Kampf</em>:
<blockquote>Only a single great man, Ford, [who], to [the Jews&#039;] fury, still maintains full independence...[from] the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions.</blockquote>
Plus Hitler told the <em>Detroit News</em> in 1931 that Ford was an inspiration and he kept a life-size portrait by his desk.
<blockquote>Henry Ford was an actual anti-Semite and, one might argue, the dehumanization of Fordism laid the groundwork for the rise of Fascism by treating workers as cogs in a system and reducing their value to the sum of their economic parts.</blockquote>
How else Fordism might have arguably laid the groundwork for the rise of Fascism? Perhaps the printing of half a million copies of <em>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</em> in the &#039;20s, maybe?
Three words for you: Battersea Power Station. By which I mean to say, urban decay leading to blight is pretty much a universal phenomenon in cities, and it takes a determined, coordinated effort by local and regional/national governments and the private sector (in a non-command economy) to reverse it.
Detroit is different from parts of London, Newcastle (NSW <em>or</em> -upon-Tyne), Birmingham, Belfast and countless other cities only in that it was allowed to go further and still hasn&#039;t been turned around, for reasons that it&#039;s impossible to believe have nothing to do with race.
Some of those are meh.
But others, pure genius. I have a birthday coming up, how convenient.
Far too many black, Jewish, gay and other minority store- and homeowners to count?
To the extent (you&#039;d be surprised) that the closing of the Packard plant is Obama&#039;s fault, Fucks Gnus will somehow find the Nazi connection. And if they can&#039;t do it, Rush Limpblob or the freepers can surely pull it off.
Einkaufen Macht Frei
Exactly. Just ask George Bush.
What, the VW Bug isn&#039;t enough?
We didn&#039;t start the engine It was always turning while Detroit was burning
Oh wait, you weren&#039;t doing a Billy Joel parody?
You forgot Concord Calumny! I had one of those.
Damn it if future historians arent going to just laugh and laugh at us.
Why go third party? Ford&#039;s mentioned in <em>Mein Kampf</em>:
<blockquote>Only a single great man, Ford, [who], to [the Jews&#039;] fury, still maintains full independence...[from] the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions.</blockquote>
Plus Hitler told the <em>Detroit News</em> in 1931 that Ford was an inspiration and he kept a life-size portrait by his desk.
The horrors of the AMC Pacer plant are worse.
Pacer libel!
BSfD, that was you? ...at the place, you know with the working? ...and the time clocking? I thought that it was that Weinstein guy that wrote that?
<blockquote>Henry Ford was an actual anti-Semite and, one might argue, the dehumanization of Fordism laid the groundwork for the rise of Fascism by treating workers as cogs in a system and reducing their value to the sum of their economic parts.</blockquote>
How else Fordism might have arguably laid the groundwork for the rise of Fascism? Perhaps the printing of half a million copies of <em>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</em> in the &#039;20s, maybe?
Oh, stop being such a Boer.