The city of Detroit, Michigan has lost 1 million in population since the 1980s when the Japanese cars started entering our market and demolishing the auto industry. In the city of Flint, General Motors jobs fell from a high of 80,000 in 1978 to just under 8,000 in 2010. Come with me now to see the aftermath below the fold.
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PS. Please Do Not read any of the racist comments that were posted on the Videos at YouTube...they are scary and totally untrue.
Detroit and Flint Michigan have now become a place of great housing bargains...this is what it looks like when jobs leave because of imports. Let's look at a house that recently sold for a mere $6,000.
What to see the inside the $6,000 two story house with attic and basement?
But that's not all! Any lot or house on this street for $1
Or maybe you would like your own neighborhood? The current owner...a Black and White American Shorthair might trade it away for merely a few cans of tuna.
How about this idea? Japan now has people living in a dangerous area contaminated with radiation and no real place to move them to. I found room and it will create jobs cleaning up these areas but the neighborhoods are empty, schools...empty...factories closed but it's there already.
Currently, the cities of Detroit and Flint are flattening whole neighborhoods to return them to grassy fields planted with trees...as they have the money to do so but it's slow going. They are doing so in an attempt to save the value of what is left besides what you saw in the videos.