{"id":6105,"date":"2014-01-15T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2014-01-09T14:55:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T19:55:03","slug":"did-democratic-dominance-doom-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6105","title":{"rendered":"Did Democratic Dominance Doom Detroit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted something on my personal Facebook page about how one of the booming businesses in Detroit is photographing the dilapidated buildings. I labeled my link to the article, \u201cDocumenting decades of Democratic dominance.\u201d Can you tell I like alliteration?<\/p>\n<p>This bothered one of my Democrat friends who said that my bias was showing, and that blaming Democrats for Detroit was like blaming Republicans for the Katrina response. His contention was that both were unfair. I, and some other friends of mine, had to point out a few differences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Republican administration <i>wanted<\/i> to come into Louisiana before the storm hit to be ready when it arrived, but the Democrats in the state capitol wouldn\u2019t allow it. <\/li>\n<li>The Democrats at the city level in New Orleans failed to use the resources they already had to evacuate their own people. <\/li>\n<li>Democrats have been running Detroit for 50 years. To say that blaming their policies is unfair, is to make one wonder how long one party has to rule a city for their policies to actually affect that city. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So no, the analogy isn\u2019t even close. And the devastation in Detroit wasn\u2019t caused by Mother Nature, either.<\/p>\n<p>This is yet another example of how Democrats seem to take the stance that it\u2019s never their <i>policies<\/i> that failed, and in fact the best way to solve any problems they cause is to do the same thing with more money. That has always been Paul Krugman\u2019s solution regarding stimulus spending. That has always been the solution for failing public schools, poverty programs, and every other idea that just isn\u2019t panning out the way they thought it should. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and when ObamaCare drags down our economy, expect the same excuses, because we\u2019re hearing them already. Republicans are being accuses of \u201csabotaging\u201d it, when all they did was make the Democrats own it by not voting for it. As it is, the need to a revamp of the website, and delaying key parts of the law, are not sabotage by any means. But Republicans will get the blame while the Democrats will throw more money at a program that was sold as a way to <i>reduce<\/i> the deficit. <\/p>\n<p>Blame is useful, if it is honestly applied. Using it, we can find our mistakes, and correct them. Democrats will <i>never<\/i> accept it, even after a half century track record. Does that give you confidence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted something on my personal Facebook page about how one of the booming businesses in Detroit is photographing the dilapidated buildings. I labeled my link to the article, \u201cDocumenting decades of Democratic dominance.\u201d Can you tell I like alliteration? This bothered one of my Democrat friends who said that my bias was showing, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,15,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}