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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 6, 2013 18:53:39 GMT
Practically speaking, any piece from the Detroit collection that wound up in any other public collection would be just as accessible as it is now. And important pieces bought by wealthy individuals are often loaned to museums so, again, access by all. Still, poor Detroit.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2013 19:32:41 GMT
It is clearly humiliating for any city or country that has to do this.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 9, 2013 0:53:15 GMT
Sent the link to this thread to a friend of mine who is from up around the Detroit area. Today she wrote back:
The courts just ruled that everything is up for grabs with the bankruptcy including the art museum and city pensions.
The city pensions!
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Post by mich64 on Dec 9, 2013 1:05:41 GMT
We too have seen the reporting on the news regarding the situation in Detroit. Can not imagine having to cope with all the unknowns they are having to contend with each day.
There was a story the other day about a Detroit firefighter who had been paralyzed on the job and his health benefits were all cancelled. I believe they brought out his story to help the citizens understand why decisions like selling the art collection were having to be made.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 22, 2013 20:33:11 GMT
Stories like that must be particularly horrifying to you Canadians, Mich, with your civilized health care system. It's grotesque that in the United States people fight against having a system that would provide dignified care for all.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2013 20:44:45 GMT
Most of the French have never heard of Ayn Rand, the principal inspiration of the "wealth creators" in the United States, but they have been doing a few pieces about her recently in the French press.
Quotations from her works are amazing.
"Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
"Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims."
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
There are hundreds and hundreds of these...
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 23, 2013 13:40:48 GMT
She's not wrong about the potential, of course, but silent about the consequences if there were no government or no such monopoly.
I think I got the measure of her when I saw a clip of an interview if which she talked about "enlightened self-interest" as being the most positive value for a healthy society. If it's self-interest, who's to say it's enlightened or not?
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 23, 2013 20:55:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2015 19:52:38 GMT
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Post by LouisXIV on Dec 13, 2015 16:45:48 GMT
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Post by htmb on Dec 13, 2015 16:55:12 GMT
It appears the city of Detroit may be moving into a whole new era, Louis!
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Post by lagatta on Dec 13, 2015 19:29:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2015 13:28:39 GMT
I will feel happy about Detroit once they have saved the train station.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 14, 2015 17:47:08 GMT
Super pictures in that article, Louis -- it does seem like a great travel destination.
A friend who lives in Michigan occasionally posts pics of Detroit on facebook, and it looks rather lively.
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Post by htmb on Dec 14, 2015 17:56:04 GMT
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