Corruption and stupidity will always be a city killer.

@ouss

Жыл бұрын

You spelled socialism wrong

@lawrenceswann3164

Жыл бұрын

Blame Reagan..

@todoldtrafford

Жыл бұрын

@@lawrenceswann3164 yea a dead president who never ran Detroit 🤣

@briantomory8399

5 ай бұрын

and simplistic, one sentence comments will always get the most likes and attention.

Us govt works for the business class, not the citizens.

Well its more then just that. High levels of crime made it unsafe to live and invest into. Corruption is something I experienced in New Orleans and thats something that drove me away. Hard to be honest when you get taxed to death and problems don't get solved. You find out that the taxes are only high because the politicians and their lackies want more money. The automotive industry was out the door when NAFTA got introduced. They could build stuff far cheaper in other countries without having to worry about employees and benefits. This is something that has helped destroy America in general. At the end of a few decades. Their was no jobs worth living there. The crime made it too dangerous to live in. The corruption turned all the honest people way. Now the city is pretty much tearing down everything and starting over. Probably the best move tbh.

@johnnynick3621

4 ай бұрын

NAFTA was introduced in the mid 90's. By then the auto industry was already toast in Detroit. The exodus away from Detroit began in the 1970's, long before NAFTA.

@Soundsofthewood

4 ай бұрын

@@johnnynick3621 I guess more of the final nail in the coffin atleast.

@tabor503

3 ай бұрын

Crime comes from lack of opportunity

Your channel is underrated man.

@unsdaboi7092

2 жыл бұрын

Fax

A guy in California tried to build an apartment building in California. Residents paid the fee (I think $300) to put the permit on hold and have a meeting with the owner. The locals, almost exclusively Latino, had some demands. The biggest of which was for the owner to agree to give available housing to Latino applicants first. Putting the construction of much needed housing on hold, and possibly never being built, unless the guy agreed to ignore the Fair Housing Act. That's right, they demanded he give preferencial treatment to one ethnic group above all others. Why? They claim the neighborhood is traditionally Latino and they wanted to keep it that way. Then there was all the red tape, fees, and palms that had to be greased to get the construction done. I'm not sure it ever got built.

@zackgravity7284

6 ай бұрын

And they blame white people for 'gentrification'

@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese

5 ай бұрын

Welcome to the fruits of civil rights and intergration

@briantomory8399

5 ай бұрын

AND... what does this have to do with Detroit? AND by the way... are you going to tell me that white people never did such a thing? Go ahead and make the argument, using sourced evidence, that Latinos have done this more than whites throughout history. Also while you are at it, please source this story above that you stated.

@starventure

Ай бұрын

What evidence did they cite to prove that the neighborhood was traditionally Latino?

One word can describe the demise and the decay of Detroit. Can anyone think of that word? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

@DogeDavidLoredan

3 ай бұрын

Black!!

@gilbertodelavega359

3 ай бұрын

Outsourcing

@gilbertodelavega359

3 ай бұрын

@@DogeDavidLoredanno it’s outsourcing/offshoring of industrial jobs to China and Asia. Detroit used to be manufacturing hub and now all those jobs are gone

@starventure

Ай бұрын

@@DogeDavidLoredan Males.

@drewbrees22

Ай бұрын

​@starventure lol what

Hiroshima? Don't think that's a good example for how Americans might fix a city. Unless you are saying nuke it and ask the Japanese to fix what you ruined.

@jeffreylee252

13 күн бұрын

It's all about policy

Hmmm…..almost like the certain kind of people destroyed their own city?

Robocop predicted this.

@SONYLEGEND

Ай бұрын

They sure did.... ROBOCOP is a masterpiece

@cj4505

13 күн бұрын

Robocop was right

Look at it now! Please come visit!

I used to think when they called Detroit a ghost town that just mean it was because nobody was there but I mean ghosts you can feel Spirits walking up behind you as you walk up the street all types certain blocks you don't see nobody but you feel them very weird place to be

Does private colleges provide better quality due to competition? Does free market economic works in education system? What about developing countries why is there private colleges underperforming ?

@spitingMYverse

2 жыл бұрын

Private colleges aren’t operating in a free market they have to compete against the people who print the money. Whose goin to win? I’ll take the money printers.

America is FALLING APART day after day.

@briantomory8399

5 ай бұрын

in intelligence. Just look at this comment section. These people don't even know basic US history much less Detroit.

Japanese are different and Americans are different, u cant compare them , Japanese are honest and hard working , they dont have different races mixing up each other

@PoochieCollins

4 ай бұрын

The US has a wayyyyyy higher GDP per capita than Japan. This is despite that they tend to work more hours, and even have higher IQs. I guess that race-mixing really helps the US, huh?

@clrr8400

17 күн бұрын

It's not necessarily different races mixing in, look at Canada and how beuatiful and safe their country is in comparison to their neighbours to South, the states. Just different mentality and culture that Canadians have with strict gun laws and generally strict laws period. Asians work as a whole community, putting their people first. Work hard and ate very disciplined people. Highly intelligent people.

@xyrenegade

5 күн бұрын

It's not about races mixing up, and no. Japanese people are actually xenophobic

Will San Francisco end up like this?

New York is heading straight for Detroit

😮 Wow. And I thought Lagos was getting bad.

What goes up comes down.

Look at all the large cities (outside of NYC) in New York State! The crime in Rochester alone is off the charts, not to mention arson, and all the rest Nick mentioned. Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, even some of the smaller cities with high drug problems have crime that's off the charts. and yet taxes are higher, and regulations stricter. People are feeling like rats off a sinking ship, the ones that can at any rate.

@tabor503

3 ай бұрын

Drugs and crime are a symptom not a cause genius.

Pretty sad

"1.5 million people used to lived in this city" "Now its a ghost town !"

Last days are about to begin 😢😢😢

There are still ppl that live there. Ghost town to me means GHOST TOWN. Meaning NO ONE lives there. Not a single person….

I don't know why Republicans don't talk about this more. This should be taught in schools.

@mskayla7747

2 жыл бұрын

Nick has been talking about this.

@kiaminaya5731

Жыл бұрын

I learned this in university while studying architecture and I dont study in the USA. So that should give you an idea of how unaware of us history most Americans are compared to foreigners

@markyuto6820

Жыл бұрын

​@@kiaminaya5731That's the most frustrating thing if you support and the admired the US as a foreigner. The amount of stupidity and ignorance among Americans is outstanding.

@beautifully_scarred_lea

8 ай бұрын

They do. People are just too in love with socialism and don't understand that socialism and communism REQUIRE high taxation. The allure of free stuff outweighs their reason to logic

@edoardoRss

6 ай бұрын

It’s globalization

When you get the population wrong even, I genuinely question a lot of what you have to say. Detroit at its largest wasn’t even 2 Million, it simply came close at nearly 1.9 million. Never has it been over 2 million residents.

Mayors and City Council responsible for downfall

Imagine Going to a Ross store And all you see is business class people

Its so easy to get doomed. A vice ruler took his whole life to built someone and one dumb ruler cn collapse it all in very few years. Weak dumb lazy citizen is a nightmare in this situation.

bad government? also great beard

Well. Chicago is on its way to becoming the next Detroit.

dont compare to SF...SF is the next Detroit too!

No, Ford and Chevy had a fight. They broke apart after that.

@nataaniwebb712

Ай бұрын

Chevy way better than Ford.

@nataaniwebb712

Ай бұрын

Ford stalls😮

I predicted NYC is next...

the short answer : the city became super expensive to live in, with really high taxes, extreme regulation, and no proper safty measurements, causing crime to go up that's why ppl moved out Extra: arsonists burned the unused houses this video is only 3 minutes, yet feels like a 25 min video for how long it takes to give an extremely simple answer the amount of (what i call) "click bate phrases" meant to hold your attention like: "so How did that Happen?¿" and "Keep watching to Find Out" is way more than needed and i can't exactly point it out, but the tone feels like it is actively taling down to the audience this is ridiculous

Robocop

@2:52 overall Detroit corruption in a nutshell.

Beard Wednesday!

Chicago is on its way

@briantomory8399

5 ай бұрын

Oh really? haha. Make your case buddy. I'll be looking forward to hearing your argument.

@eb1247

5 ай бұрын

@@briantomory8399 Maybe the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants that the native black population is all over the news complaining about... DUH

@eb1247

5 ай бұрын

@briantomory8399 when the left has to remove comments, you know I'm right...

@briantomory8399

5 ай бұрын

My comment wasn't removed. You just read it, neanderthal brain @@eb1247

@briantomory8399

5 ай бұрын

@@eb1247 no, they remove stuff that is full of cr@p, and I'm sure your comment was.

hiroshima 87 years later...

Model Cities, an element of President Lyndon Johnson's War on poverty and community planning

@briantomory8399

5 ай бұрын

Go ahead and make the argument to me that Lyndon Johnson was far more responsible than General Motors in causing in the decline of Detroit. I looked forward to hearing your argument.

Funny how robocop movie blames it on the exact opposite of what this guy is saying, blames it on ravenous capitalism. I'm gonna go with my experience and say that RoboCop got it better than this guy.

I’ll tell you why. N

@Playa_313

5 ай бұрын

Wow..

Nick Freitas is not an expert on Detroit. As a Virginia delegate, he gets most of his campaign contributions from Big Business and Industry. He never lets them down with his votes on legislation in the Virginia General Assembly and with his statements and positions on issues. Freitas never bites the hands that feed his campaigns! My ancestors started arriving in Detroit in 1882, and I was born in the Detroit area. Most of my relatives still live there. There are a variety of reasons for Detroit's decline. A big reason for Detroit's population lose was the entire area became dependent upon one industry rather than diversifying. When Americans stopped buying U.S. automobiles that were poorly made, they switched to higher quality Japanese cars. Americans automobile makers did not leave Detroit solely because of high city taxes. They set up plants in the American South and in places like Mexico where workers can be paid a lot less. They are places where no labor unions exist. The Japanese car companies began setting up plants in the U.S. to maunfacturer parts for their vehicles if they needed parts. This practice of seaching out locations where wages are very low has been done by companies since our country was founded. For example, the textile industry left New England to set up plants in the U.S. South. Then, the textile industry moved out of the U.S. to set up plants in China, India, and Bangladesh. Making larger profits is their only motive. Cities and towns that rely almost entirely on one industry often lose population or become ghosts towns when their industries close down and exit. That is what happened to Detroit. A second factor in Detroit's decline is race. The federal government once only gave mortgages to white people and denied them to black residents. In addition, banks and lending institutions once only gave loans to whites. Thus, black families could not afford to fix up their homes unlike whites. Whites were able to move to the suburbs and buy a new house with a mortgage. It did not help when Republican Detroit Mayor Albert Coho, an real estate realtor and openly hostile racist elected in 1949, pushed to build more highways in Detroit to make it easier for workers to leave Detroit's business district to the Detroit suburbs. Black people were afraid to move to the Detroit suburbs for fear they would be harassed by white residents who did not want them living in their communities.

@pattershow

2 жыл бұрын

High city taxes, increased regulatory burdens, increased union demands, take your pick. I don't think Mr. Freitas is peddling himself as an expert on Detroit, nor is he suggesting "taxes" were the singular cause of the city's collapse. Your "second factor" is conjecture and symptomatic of a Krugman-Klein interpretation of economics and history. I recommend Thomas Sowell as supplemental reading if you can get past your ideological blinders.

@kirkmarusak7800

2 жыл бұрын

@@pattershow I have been involved in politics for more than 40 years. I was an elected Republican precinct delegate from Michigan. I used to believe whatever the Heritage Foundation published without questioning its accuracy. The Heritage Foundation was created simply to produce publications that support the interests of millionaires and Big Business on Capitol Hill, not the interests of the majority of Americans. Businesses are not over regulated but they want you to believe that. Company owners and executives want to make as much profit as possible and oppose all regulations including those that protect your health and safety. They also want to shift the tax burden to the middle class and working poor. Automobiles and other vehicles have less pollution coming out in their exhausts today. Why? The automobile companies opposed any efforts to reduce pollution in their vehicles. The Automobile Manufactuters of Americans were sued by the Justice Department in 1969 because they mislead the federal government about the pollution controls in their vehicles. They claimed in the 1950s that their cars were not increasing smog in Los Angeles. We know that automobile exhausts increase pollution and risks to your health. Are you glad that you have seat belts in your vehicle? The automobile companies lobbied the federal government against seat belts. But seat belts have saved thousands of lives. Are you glad that you have air bags in your vehicle? The automobile companies lobbied against mandating air bags. They did not install them on their own initiative because they cared about the safety of drivers and passengers. Thomas Sowell was hired by the Hoover Institutition to publish papers and books that support the interests of Big Business millionaires that fund that think tank. Sowell has never won the Nobel Prize in Economics and has received no awards for his books. Nobody uses his writings, and they are designed to influence the minds and votes of ordinary Americans. I live in the Washington, DC area, have met with members of Congress in both political parties, and personally know my Republican member of Congress. Big Business PAC campaign contributions from millionaires control Republican votes on legislation. That is why there is always gridlock in Congress. Otherwise, Big Business will find and fund a Republican Primary opponent if they do not go along with their interests. You have no influence over how your Republican member of Congress votes on legislation. Congresswoman Renee Ellmers of North Carolina and Republican Congressman Bob Inglis of South Carolina lost their Republican primaries because Big Business millionaires were not happy with some of their votes on legislation or due to their refusal to "play the game."

@pattershow

2 жыл бұрын

​@@kirkmarusak7800 I appreciate your passion, and I wish the world was as black and white as you paint it. Read "A Conflict of Visions" and you might agree with Thomas Sowell that you have an "unconstrained" view of human potential.

@et34t34fdf

Жыл бұрын

@@pattershow its ironic you accuse him of partisanship, while you reccomend him Sowell of all people, who himself is deeply partisan.

@lawtonsfinest8622

Жыл бұрын

Damn only my family been here since the early 1900s, and grandmother in law family was here since the 1700s from the North End, Eastside. U remind me so much of her she knows so much of Detroit History since she herself is Living Detroit History.

Why blame government why not blame the people who live in it..

@zackgravity7284

6 ай бұрын

Cos its the governments fault for abandoning it

Hiroshima is hugely succesful due to its own people working hard as a commuinity and helping each ofher by putting others first. This is fhe mentalify of Asian people. Community first. You sont have that thinking kn the states period. Individualiatic and for themselves.

Easy. The years Detroit was an amazing city, it was a white run city. Mayor Colman young told the white ppl if they don't like what is happening in Detroit, then they can leave... AND BOY DID THEY EVER LEAVE. Metro Detroit is the most segregated metro in the nation. Sterling Heights, Rochester Hills, Farmington Hills, Birmingham, Troy, Lake Orion, Oxford, Bloomfield, Bloomfield Hills, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Clawson, and about 30 more cities are white cities. Livonia is so white, that if you are black and driving into Livonia, they assume you have come into their city from Detroit and you will be pulled over. Detroit will NEVER RECOVER. Its a dark dark dark Blue City and demographic = 76% Black, 11% White, 2% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% others. NO ONE in the white suburbs is saying, lets move to the Detroit city limits.

jews

The one factor that KZread will auto-delete if not coded: Block* People.

U better delete these comments or you are running a KZread channel very irresponsibly.

Detroit’s not dead, our city took a bad beating over the years, but we’re far from dead. In 2024, the Lions made it to the NFC Championship & our city grew in population for the first time since 1957. Detroit is an amazing city and its people are just as equally amazing. Most of our negative reputation came from exaggerations perpetuated by the media & people who haven’t set foot in the city in decades. I’m happy events like the 2024 NFL Draft nationally showcased the city on a positive stage.

Out of date video. You might want to do an updated video. This makes you look silly.

Blacks!

This is a Democrat view of life. It's not just about taxes. It's about crime - and who commits it. Look at the cities with the highest crime rates in the US - and the pattern is clear.

Unions....democrats......drugs........done 😢

Commenting 4 algorithm

The answer is: the sons of Ham

Sad/reasonable ! It is rising like the Phoenix though ! ☝️👍🕊️🦾