What happened was the Government attacked the Italian Mafia. The Democrats use of weaponized drugs chased the European communities out. The City elected Liberal Corrupt Politicians, corrupt School Board, Charities were even corrupt. With Liberals in charge they called on the USA for Hand Outs for a New Detroit Renaissance. The unions were taken over shortly after, Hoffa was the final blow to kill Detroit. It's been about begging the USA for help and pocketing the resources provided every since. It will never be a good place while these "Progressive" Politicians and Media. Run the Narrative of Oppression and Race Hate in 2018 it's not OK to be white? Remember when ever you point a finger four point back at you Democrat Socialist.
This just sounds like they're shooting themselves in the foot with a rocket launcher. There are some simple fixes but they just go on the completely opposite direction. Do they actually care about their bankrupt city, or just lining their pockets?
The City would heal itself within 10 years if they cut regulations , cut taxes, and cut government by 75%. If they just let people manage their own business. Privatize everything.
I love Hong Kong! You can get the best of the best and the cheapest of the cheapest within blocks! What a great city. Just surviving that flight into the harbor makes you feel so happy to be alive!
Used to own a bar. City insisted on my renting their container for $50. Tried to give the officer the $50 on the spot. He insisted I had to make and appointment, go to the Wyoming yard, bring a cashier's check, and set up a payment plan. really....can't take money, but need me to be inconvenienced to come jump through hurdles to PAY the city money. Bye Detroit!
What incredible incompetence on the side of the former mayor, city and police. INCREDIBLE INCOMPETENCE! Small and medium businesses are America's bread and butter. Large corporations contribute very little to society and take quite a bit with their tax evading ways. The economic boom of the 1990s was due to the growth of small and medium businesses. Entrepreneurial and social freedom as in a FREE MARKET is the ONLY way Detroit is going to recover, ESPECIALLY in these times!
They're NOT just "messin' with the black communities". My sister owns a business 50 miles North of Detroit. A family member/employee parked her car in front of their shop with an 'For Sale' sign in the vehicle window. She was ticketed for having an 'Advertisement' sign within '';'50 ft of the street. With THAT kind of law she wouldn't even be able to park her car with 'BEHIND' the Building In The Alley! Guess they'll have to warn their customers about 'For Sale' signs in their cars also!
That situation kind of sounds like other industrial cities and towns that have fallen on hard times. Corruption ALWAYS takes over once the tax money starts to run out
The last time I was in Detroit was in the mid 80's and I felt lucky to leave unscathed. If Detroit is serious about taking down the bad guys then it needs to look at it's city leaders, union bosses and middle and upper level management in all city departments.
It was after the riots that Detroit became a ravaged community, and remained so for decades thereafter, as businesses withdrew, taking jobs and taxes with them. But here, as elsewhere, an idea that fit the vision did not have to meet the additional requirement of fitting the facts. (Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Race, Page 93)
That's the very thing I despise about permits. Permit means "to allow". How are we free when we have to get permission to do things that we need to do to put food on the table in our homes?
If you're watching this far into the video, then this is for you, but maybe, just maybe...the problem is that there's no Skip Ad button showing on my screen.
I think this is worse than just un-necessary regulations getting in the way of business. The city officials are just displaying their outright corruption. And I hate to use the word as it has been so overused since the GFC began: their outright greed.
Yeah, but that's the thing. In a healthy free market other businesses would have come in to fill the void to take advantage of the available labor and real estate. However, as this video clearly shows, the regulations are so onerousness that most don't even bother and those that do get shut down. I mean, would you try to start a business in Detroit when faced with the prospect of having it completely destroyed by the government for an arbitrary reason?
Sure wish that would happen in Toledo. Democrats have been in full charge here for years and have done a wonderful job of fucking things up. Another 10 years and we will rank right up there with with Detroit. On the flip side, the surrounding Republican communities are going strong.
Shooting and hitting both feet with one shot. Idiots! Hey, I'm a Canadian who loves Detroit. I grew up 110 miles east watching TV 2-4 &7 and it made me feel like I was one of you. I went to Tigers and Red Wings games in the 50s and 60s and I sat on the Detroit River bank and cried while the city smoked and rumbled in '67. I've recently seen many videos of people getting in the odd smile in their sad situations making it work anyway. I got your back Detroit. Rock on! :~)
I am a economic libertarian, and a social conservative. Libertarianism is interesting because it is the one "party" that appeals to -- brings together -- both liberals and conservatives. The only organization I give money to is a libertarian one that I can't decide which side of the aisle they fall on.
Exactly, and by free market I mean just like Hong Kong. Small government, no income tax, low sales and property taxes, no army, no debt - 18,000% GDP growth since 1967. Capitalism track record: Texas, Hong Kong, US in the 80's Socialism track record: USSR, North Korea, Cuba, Detroit. I don't know how socialism is even considered a credible idea.
Over regulation is choking the American Dream. Not just in Detroit, but across this great land. Sometimes it feels like a real conspiracy to keep the little guy down and it crosses all racial and ethnic lines. In my estimation it is criminaly stupid. If government really worked as it should, it would clear the way for everyone to better themselves and increase the number of happy, successful people paying a smaller individual tax. The volume would more than balance the bottom line.
+Canudigit 533 Your "Go fuck yourself you moron" is the reply of somebody who doesn't have the chops to make an actual argument. Also, I said nothing about Trump. Government in Detroit should be supporting business, not doing all they can to shut it down.
Amy, it appears I owe you an apology. I clicked on the wrong name when I made my comment. I stand corrected, you did not say anything about Trump. I am truly sorry to have insulted you for no reason. In addition, I agree with your statement. However, I have found that to be the only type of rhetoric a liberal actually hears. They all seem to have some sort of genetic block to an "actual argument".
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded - here and there, now and then - are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck. --Robert Heinlein Detroit's unlucky.
What really annoys me is these officials who stress the importance of respecting "the law," which is really just their unreasonable demands with a gun behind it. It puts the same weight on jumping through their hoops as something like murder which is a universally recognized crime. Self-important bastards...
Of course they'll never take responsibility for their actions. They'll just blame the city's decay on the fall of the auto industry like they always do.
Buff Awesome the city government is what causing the decay. They are literally attack small businesses and shutting them down. But hey, it’s all their fault right lol.
I'm well aware of this. There are only a very few amount of people in the GOP that I like. I have been libertarian ever since I really sat down and found out what my political views are.
Let's do a Kickstarter. Good people out en relocated; government people stay in. Electric fence around it. Feed it occasionally with Washington bureaucrats.
The DEMs & GOP are not the same. Haven't you noticed that DEMs stand behind issues that support the environment, unions, women's issues, public education, civil liberties, regulation of corporations, consumers' rights, child labor laws, raising the minimum wage. These are all issues the GOP opposes. How have you missed the fact that DEMs support health insurance for everyone (OBAMACARE) & the GOP doesn't? The GOP wants to suppress the vote. DEMs don't. The two parties are not the same.
Psychopaths are drawn to power like a moth to a flame. Why even create the temptation? What on God's Green Earth is the impetus to centralize and entrust any substantial power to any individual or group of individuals?
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DEMs & GOP are not the same. Haven't you noticed that DEMs stand behind issues that support the environment, unions, women's issues, public education, civil liberties, regulation of corporations, consumers' rights, child labor laws, raising the minimum wage. These are all issues the GOP opposes. How have you missed the fact that DEMs support health insurance for everyone (OBAMACARE) & the GOP doesn't? The GOP wants to suppress the vote. DEMs don't. The two parties are not the same
What's the problem with that? If the underground economy develops there enough, imagine what would happen to the rest of the US when it spreads. Eventually the government would be unable to operate due to popular free marketism. That might just be how the libertarian revolution happens.
Voluntaryism is a better means than government at providing order in society.Anarchy means no rulers, not that there should be no rules. Read Power and Market by Murray Rothbard
The people's mindset is what's broken, but a strong pro-business figure head can improve things quite quickly. Donald Trump or someone like him should run for Mayor there. We had a Premier (i.e. state governor) here in Queensland that fired 14,000 staff in less than a year and approved hundreds of new privately funded projects. Pretty far from perfect, but it can be done.
No no no, you got it all wrong. The politicians are trying to raise revenue. The destruction of small businesses is just an unfortunate side effect. Insert sarcasm.
I would hire almost everyone in Detroit with a computer and internet connection and teach them how to get about $400 per month in tax credits just to stick it to Detroit's politicians! And, there wouldn't be a darn thing they could do about it since it's perfectly legal in the federal tax code! ;))
In a city where business' are fleeing, why would you try to close even more business' What party has been running Detroit for decades???????
What happened was the Government attacked the Italian Mafia. The Democrats use of weaponized drugs chased the European communities out. The City elected Liberal Corrupt Politicians, corrupt School Board, Charities were even corrupt. With Liberals in charge they called on the USA for Hand Outs for a New Detroit Renaissance. The unions were taken over shortly after, Hoffa was the final blow to kill Detroit. It's been about begging the USA for help and pocketing the resources provided every since. It will never be a good place while these "Progressive" Politicians and Media. Run the Narrative of Oppression and Race Hate in 2018 it's not OK to be white? Remember when ever you point a finger four point back at you Democrat Socialist.
Drunk party.
binthrdonthat Can you say democrat ?
Michigan, and Detroit specifically, need to pay for their own liberal democratic mistakes.
Libtards
This just sounds like they're shooting themselves in the foot with a rocket launcher. There are some simple fixes but they just go on the completely opposite direction. Do they actually care about their bankrupt city, or just lining their pockets?
I'm going with lining their pockets.
Reason's series on Detroit is fascinating. Great work.
The City would heal itself within 10 years if they cut regulations , cut taxes, and cut government by 75%. If they just let people manage their own business. Privatize everything.
They have to reinvent themselves and prove to the world that they can do it. I'm saddened to see our people go through the suffering.
And this is why everyone leaves detroit
"government jobs have such little influence and power"
383 businesses shuttered in less than 9 months! Seems very influential and powerful to me.
Here I was thinking that Detroit's bankruptcy might usher in a new approach to businesses and job creation. Guess not.
I love Hong Kong! You can get the best of the best and the cheapest of the cheapest within blocks! What a great city. Just surviving that flight into the harbor makes you feel so happy to be alive!
Used to own a bar. City insisted on my renting their container for $50. Tried to give the officer the $50 on the spot. He insisted I had to make and appointment, go to the Wyoming yard, bring a cashier's check, and set up a payment plan. really....can't take money, but need me to be inconvenienced to come jump through hurdles to PAY the city money. Bye Detroit!
What incredible incompetence on the side of the former mayor, city and police. INCREDIBLE INCOMPETENCE! Small and medium businesses are America's bread and butter. Large corporations contribute very little to society and take quite a bit with their tax evading ways. The economic boom of the 1990s was due to the growth of small and medium businesses. Entrepreneurial and social freedom as in a FREE MARKET is the ONLY way Detroit is going to recover, ESPECIALLY in these times!
They're NOT just "messin' with the black communities". My sister owns a business 50 miles North of Detroit. A family member/employee parked her car in front of their shop with an 'For Sale' sign in the vehicle window. She was ticketed for having an 'Advertisement' sign within '';'50 ft of the street. With THAT kind of law she wouldn't even be able to park her car with 'BEHIND' the Building In The Alley! Guess they'll have to warn their customers about 'For Sale' signs in their cars also!
Then government talks about how they can "make" jobs GTFO.
That situation kind of sounds like other industrial cities and towns that have fallen on hard times. Corruption ALWAYS takes over once the tax money starts to run out
We would all be better off without government.
As a side note, Cafe D'Mongo is awesome and Mongo is a cool guy.
Regulations are becoming a heavy burden on inspiring entrepreneurs. I would not open a business in Detroit due to excessive government.
The last time I was in Detroit was in the mid 80's and I felt lucky to leave unscathed. If Detroit is serious about taking down the bad guys then it needs to look at it's city leaders, union bosses and middle and upper level management in all city departments.
It was after the riots that Detroit became a ravaged community, and remained so for decades thereafter, as businesses withdrew, taking jobs and taxes with them. But here, as elsewhere, an idea that fit the vision did not have to meet the additional requirement of fitting the facts.
(Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Race, Page 93)
Real estate and such is very, very expensive because of the limited available space, but consumer goods are very cheap.
This video proves... We still live in The Dark Ages
It is not just Detroit. I see this in Atlanta too. Government is out of control.
Hamilton, Ontario is in an earlier stage of shutting down businesses not favored by the politicians.
2020 - COVID
Operation compliance: Entire US Edition
Well said
That's the very thing I despise about permits. Permit means "to allow". How are we free when we have to get permission to do things that we need to do to put food on the table in our homes?
If you're watching this far into the video, then this is for you, but maybe, just maybe...the problem is that there's no Skip Ad button showing on my screen.
Same in Cleveland.
Well said man!
'Comply or Die' Detroit's new motto.
Sad story for Detroit and the US
Detroit has three local news outlets, and two major newspapers. None have reported on this scandal. They're all complicate.
Hobo with a shotgun... I cant believe Im seeing it with my own eyes
Did anyone else notice the t shirt prices in that dude's store?
Inflation is hitting Detroit HARD!!!
Excuse me, sir, are those unclosed trash can lids?
CONDEMNED
I think this is worse than just un-necessary regulations getting in the way of business. The city officials are just displaying their outright corruption. And I hate to use the word as it has been so overused since the GFC began: their outright greed.
Partially agree....
We can't just generalize that easily
Yeah, but that's the thing. In a healthy free market other businesses would have come in to fill the void to take advantage of the available labor and real estate. However, as this video clearly shows, the regulations are so onerousness that most don't even bother and those that do get shut down. I mean, would you try to start a business in Detroit when faced with the prospect of having it completely destroyed by the government for an arbitrary reason?
"When in the course of human events..."
Time to leave Detroit and let the city go under completely.
That's a great quote.
Sure wish that would happen in Toledo. Democrats have been in full charge here for years and have done a wonderful job of fucking things up. Another 10 years and we will rank right up there with with Detroit.
On the flip side, the surrounding Republican communities are going strong.
That's just sad .. I feel really lucky to live in NH ..
Shooting and hitting both feet with one shot. Idiots! Hey, I'm a Canadian who loves Detroit. I grew up 110 miles east watching TV 2-4 &7 and it made me feel like I was one of you. I went to Tigers and Red Wings games in the 50s and 60s and I sat on the Detroit River bank and cried while the city smoked and rumbled in '67. I've recently seen many videos of people getting in the odd smile in their sad situations making it work anyway. I got your back Detroit. Rock on! :~)
Much better dealing with the mafia instead of the state.
"...shut down 20 businesses a week..." so .... it'll be over after the first day, when it shuts down the last two running businesses left in Detroit.
exactly, they live in a FANTASY world! the rest of us living here in REALITY on our OWN money
re: Operation Compliance: Detroit's War on Small Business: It's got to be safer than arresting drug dealers.
I am a economic libertarian, and a social conservative. Libertarianism is interesting because it is the one "party" that appeals to -- brings together -- both liberals and conservatives. The only organization I give money to is a libertarian one that I can't decide which side of the aisle they fall on.
Post the names and addresses, home addresses, of the people who implement and enforce these policies.
Coming to a county, town, city, state, nation near you.
Setting up hurdles, and then enforcing them, is government's idea of job creation.
Attacking business?? In Detroit?? What will they think of next... Chasing away the last vestiges of business will make it a barren desert.
But who will build the roads !!
What lights? They're already shut off.
seems like a protection racket...
I WONDER WHO THESE GUYS VOTED FOR IN THE PAST ? VOTING, AS EVERYONE KNOWS HAS CONSEQUENCES . YOU REAP WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN !
They would extort 11 year olds for bribes? And they wonder why their city went to hell.
Exactly, and by free market I mean just like Hong Kong. Small government, no income tax, low sales and property taxes, no army, no debt - 18,000% GDP growth since 1967.
Capitalism track record: Texas, Hong Kong, US in the 80's
Socialism track record: USSR, North Korea, Cuba, Detroit.
I don't know how socialism is even considered a credible idea.
the more closed shops makes more getto , in turn drives people to keep going and spend elsewhere .. Shame I love the D
Over regulation is choking the American Dream. Not just in Detroit, but across this great land. Sometimes it feels like a real conspiracy to keep the little guy down and it crosses all racial and ethnic lines. In my estimation it is criminaly stupid. If government really worked as it should, it would clear the way for everyone to better themselves and increase the number of happy, successful people paying a smaller individual tax. The volume would more than balance the bottom line.
This isn't liberalism...it is lunacy. It's easy to see that both neo-liberalism AND conservatism have not a lick of sense.
Another video, Zach and Reason. You'd think Detroit would be doing handsprings to help small business thrive. Nopies!
+Amy Alkon What the fuck does Trump have to do with the corrupt city scum in Detroit. Go fuck yourself you moron.
+Canudigit 533 Classy.
Yeah, and accurate as well.
+Canudigit 533 Your "Go fuck yourself you moron" is the reply of somebody who doesn't have the chops to make an actual argument. Also, I said nothing about Trump. Government in Detroit should be supporting business, not doing all they can to shut it down.
Amy, it appears I owe you an apology. I clicked on the wrong name when I made my comment. I stand corrected, you did not say anything about Trump. I am truly sorry to have insulted you for no reason. In addition, I agree with your statement. However, I have found that to be the only type of rhetoric a liberal actually hears. They all seem to have some sort of genetic block to an "actual argument".
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded - here and there, now and then - are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck.
--Robert Heinlein
Detroit's unlucky.
What's the point of all these laws if the 'right' people don't break them?
Communism/Socialism/Liberalism...
What?
@@jr5762 ,he forgotcapitalism.
@@ericortega7342 actually capitalism is what brought this city to prosperity and what could have saved it. Instead it is where it is
Government is working for big corporate America. The only business government favors is that which makes money for the government.
The people of Detroit would be better off without a city government.
What really annoys me is these officials who stress the importance of respecting "the law," which is really just their unreasonable demands with a gun behind it. It puts the same weight on jumping through their hoops as something like murder which is a universally recognized crime. Self-important bastards...
Yeah, give 'em a hat or something to gloss it over...wait a second! Isn't that a BRIBE?
Of course they'll never take responsibility for their actions. They'll just blame the city's decay on the fall of the auto industry like they always do.
Buff Awesome the city government is what causing the decay. They are literally attack small businesses and shutting them down. But hey, it’s all their fault right lol.
Are you sure?
I'm well aware of this. There are only a very few amount of people in the GOP that I like. I have been libertarian ever since I really sat down and found out what my political views are.
Let's do a Kickstarter. Good people out en relocated; government people stay in. Electric fence around it. Feed it occasionally with Washington bureaucrats.
The DEMs & GOP are not the same. Haven't you noticed that DEMs stand behind issues that support the environment, unions, women's issues, public education, civil liberties, regulation of corporations, consumers' rights, child labor laws, raising the minimum wage. These are all issues the GOP opposes. How have you missed the fact that DEMs support health insurance for everyone (OBAMACARE) & the GOP doesn't? The GOP wants to suppress the vote. DEMs don't. The two parties are not the same.
Psychopaths are drawn to power like a moth to a flame. Why even create the temptation? What on God's Green Earth is the impetus to centralize and entrust any substantial power to any individual or group of individuals?
This is the future of the US
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Actually HK is one of the most expensive cities in the world...
hence private property anarchism.
Straight out of Atlas Shrugged.
sad
DEMs & GOP are not the same. Haven't you noticed that DEMs stand behind issues that support the environment, unions, women's issues, public education, civil liberties, regulation of corporations, consumers' rights, child labor laws, raising the minimum wage. These are all issues the GOP opposes. How have you missed the fact that DEMs support health insurance for everyone (OBAMACARE) & the GOP doesn't? The GOP wants to suppress the vote. DEMs don't. The two parties are not the same
Atlas Shrugged: Detroit Edition
They need a government task force that fires 20 unionized government employees a week. Starting from the top down.
What's the problem with that? If the underground economy develops there enough, imagine what would happen to the rest of the US when it spreads. Eventually the government would be unable to operate due to popular free marketism. That might just be how the libertarian revolution happens.
Voluntaryism is a better means than government at providing order in society.Anarchy means no rulers, not that there should be no rules. Read Power and Market by Murray Rothbard
The people's mindset is what's broken, but a strong pro-business figure head can improve things quite quickly. Donald Trump or someone like him should run for Mayor there.
We had a Premier (i.e. state governor) here in Queensland that fired 14,000 staff in less than a year and approved hundreds of new privately funded projects. Pretty far from perfect, but it can be done.
madness
Except this particular mafia won't shoot anybody.
thats what the state wants.
Stupid politicians! Why not make it easier to start a business instead of cracking down on the people that do try despite all the red tape?
No no no, you got it all wrong. The politicians are trying to raise revenue. The destruction of small businesses is just an unfortunate side effect. Insert sarcasm.
A large chunk of them probably have!
All Detroit business ought to move to Texas.
Democrats....reward the freeloaders and harass the hardworker. Govt racketeering.
Detroit shrugged.
He's talking neo-liberalism not classical liberalism. Liberal has been pretty thoroughly hijacked, and at this point fighting it is just pedantry.
I would hire almost everyone in Detroit with a computer and internet connection and teach them how to get about $400 per month in tax credits just to stick it to Detroit's politicians! And, there wouldn't be a darn thing they could do about it since it's perfectly legal in the federal tax code! ;))
Greedy and stupid, a deadly combination.