Interesting take. 25 years ago I would have agreed that suburbanites would have flexed their political muscle and voted out the liberal turds running things. The makeup of that population has changed and with the destruction of the public school system, things like the Constitution, freedom, prosperity and community citizenship are no longer taught. The upcoming generations are raised with no understanding of the American history and culture. Therefore, they do not connect the dots like failure of the city/county to liberal rule. Laying out solutions to problems like what Charles has done will fall on deaf ears. The new people just care about their lives contained within smart phones.

No matter how bad I hear Detroit is, I am still surprised by things like the figures of property owners resisting paying property taxes and fees. Here in Los Angeles, any failure to pay the outrageous fees and taxes would cost a property owner their house in no time. Just as Detroit's population has changed, LA now half of people born outside of US. With the liberal destruction of the school system and influence of the public unions, there is NO chance that our slow slide can be stopped. There are too few of us left. I suspect Detroit, partly due to worse weather, is just further along. The liberal urban political machines rule with iron fists. Detroit, like us, will just limp along, slowly raising taxes and fees. No change.

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE????? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?????? This is what we get from the Dogeater and his minions.

Right you are, RTUT380. The Dems (with the help of the State run media) have succeeded in defining Republicans, Conservatives and Tea Party Patriots. The people who work hard, pay taxes, build communities and play by the rules are demonized. The leftists work 24/7 at this. Any elected official with an (R) accused on any wrongdoing is always identified. Any Dem/liberal is merely part of the amorphous DC problem. They might identify SleazeBob in a newspaper or TV story, but, yeah, Leno/Letterman/O'Brien and rest probably would welcome him and he would be viewed as "cool." BTW, the SNL episode with Jamie Foxx spewing his racist/murderous inclinations (killing all the White people "how Black is that?") the worst example of culture shift.

Clearly, you have never been a "conservative" commenting on any of the ultra leftist/Stalinist blog sites. Conservatives are called every evil name and cursed without engaging in any real discussion of ideas. I used to be a democrat, but they have ripped off their mask and now are just Stalinists who want nothing more than to demonize those who get in their way so they can destroy them in any way they can. We used to think liberal democrats were just wrong, now we know they are just evil. And BTW, your bud Menendez just remembered, as Michelle said, to pay back illegal gifts (flights and sex tours) that a Republican would be on his way to jail for now.

Then, you would have voted for Mia Love, Alan West, Lynn Swan or J.C. Watts? I didn't think so. The Stalinist democrats demonize any Black American who strays from the democrat plantation. How they try to destroy anyone who doesn't tow the line or gets in the way. What you and your leftists tried to do to Clarence Thomas was vile. And you just continue on the same path. It is standard operating procedure by the dems. You must be very proud. The Tea Party Patriots love their country and Constitution, work hard, play by the rules, get all their permits, pay all the fees, demonstrate peacefully and clean up after themselves and don't destroy property or trash the public square. The dems and their OWS thugs do none of that.

Then, you would have voted for Mia Love, Alan West, Lynn Swan or J.C. Watts? I didn't think so. The Stalinist democrats demonize any Black American who strays from the democrat plantation. How they try to destroy anyone who doesn't tow the line or gets in the way. What you and your leftists tried to do to Clarence Thomas was vile. And you just continue on the same path. It is standard operating procedure by the dems. You must be very proud.

When the Clintons infested the WH, staffers and other "little people" unlucky enough to pass HRC in a hallway were advised to avert their eyes, or she would explode. The Clintons's "Dixie Mafia" chased out of town(from Arkansas) a Resolution Trust Corporation investigator who had a criminal referral on HRC due to financial tomfoolery with Madison Guaranty Trust S & L. They used it as a piggy bank. There was a lengthy article in the WSJ all about it. The investigator fled for her life due to threats. Don't forget the Rose law firm billing records, proving that they represented both regulators and the S & L. And yet she is held up as a diva. They are vile.

Stalinist talking points. I am a long time California resident. You are spouting 1960's leftist claptrap. Go peddle it somewhere else.

Hey, I still live in Van Nuys...I mean Lake Balboa. I don't even recognize the area now. The people living here now are not taxpayer/business starters and aerospace workers who created a huge free and prosperous economy.