A new documentary about the downfall of Detroit is coming out this month, and the gripping trailer has just been released.
Over at PJ Media, Ed Driscoll writes:
Conservative documentarian Ben Howe does a brilliant bit of intercutting and juxtaposing between the mid-’60s words of self-styled JFK wannabe Jerome Cavanagh, the first of an uninterrupted line of Democrat mayors of Detroit, and its current enfeebled state. At the Breitbart.com group blog, Debra Heine notes that Howe’s documentary will debut on January 21st at the DC Auto Show, and will then be freely available on YouTube afterwards.
From the site DetroitBankruptMovie.com:
Detroit U.S.A.: Once the most prosperous city in America. With a booming manufacturing sector and cultural magnetism, the city had bright horizons after World War II. But as the 1960′s rolled in, the marriage of Big Business and Big Government overtook Detroit. The central planners in government needed the powerful corporations, and the powerful corporations came to depend on the bureaucracy, too. The marriage worked well for the politicians and for their corporate cronies, but Detroit itself entered a decades-long decline. America watched as Detroit slowly bled people, jobs and revenue. Politicians tried spending money. They tried raising taxes. The more they taxed and spent, the faster the city declined.
Let us not forget Joe Biden’s uncannily absurd words “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.” He wanted to put them on a bumper sticker. You know, like ON A CAR. It is to laugh.
The story of Detroit is the sad story of the fallout from do-gooder liberal policies, too big to fail philosophy, and downright mismanagement. From the government to GM itself, everyone has dirty hands and, now, a dirty, decrepit, mostly abandoned town. As Powerline put it: “Things are really bad when it’s thought unfit for even dead people to stay inside city limits.
Check it out at DetroitBankruptMovie.com.