My old friends will witness that I independently and spontaneously arrived to the brilliant idea of transforming Detroit's abandoned neighborhoods into subsistance farms, providing productive work for the population (90% African). If Robert Mugabe was able to transform thousands of hi-tech mechanized farms into unproductive subsistance farms, all in less than ten years, then why it could not be done in Detroit? Then I discovered that the idea was already under implementation at a small, trial scale. Now a billionaire businessman is proposing to carry out the plan on a grand scale. He calls it Hantz Farms. "There'll be the traditional methods (aka hoe and machete), but there'll also be some exciting, forward-thinking ways about how to farm (yet to be discovered)." As said, the soil and the climate of the City of Detroit are rather poor from the agricultural point of view, but a pair of goats and a potato plot will produce enough for the subsistence of a typical Detroit farmer. Of course, soon will arrive those "exciting, forward-thinking" things, like they did in Zimbabwe.
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Sadly, this is not even satire.
America should come to this!
Anon.
I just saw a program on Deutsche Welle's English TV service (why they have such a service is another question). Apparently in some town in Belgium, each family has been assigned 2 hens to eat trash and reduce waste (they are allowed to keep the eggs). A suitable crate must be built by the recipient. There is an official chicken inspector who visits each home. If he finds the facilities to be insufficient, you are fined.
Apparently it does not occur to anyone that it would be more efficient to put all the hens in one place (called a "farm"). Poultry farming has been mechanized (in the US at least) since around WWII and each farm holds tens of thousands of chickens. The "greens" want to take us back to the Middle Ages.
That's very interesting anon.
Overall, production should be centralized in farms for max efficiency. But should the elaborate just-in-time system that delivers the product to local distribution shops break down, people would be very glad that a little production was distributed, and even under household control. Backup to get through a hard time. Also, this seems to encourage individual independence and self sufficiency. Households have a built in recourse for food which they control, unusual in metropolitan places. Paradoxically, this is the result of nanny state-type gov't action, seasoned with "green" motivations! Wow.
Did the TV show suggest that there was any "preparedness" benefits recognized?
> why they have such a service is another question
It's the lingua franca thing. A billion speakers, and about 40% of those in Africa and Asia. Looks like about 1/2 of continental Europe speaks it. Still under 1% speak it in China, vs way, way more in India. But probably many more Chinese will in the future.
How is it satire? The people of that state have spent years voting Democratic, and they have reaped the consequences. If you think Detroit reverting to farmland is bad, then you should watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL_YdRxBhzI
In the right hand column there should also be a link to a video named "A Tour of Detroit's Ghetto" by the same user that uploaded the video I linked to above. If you don't see the video then click on Camosilver's name and search for it on his Youtube page, the video is definitely worth watching and is only about ten minutes long.
I watched the video with the beaver. The Japanese competition killed Detroit, and that's all the story. In Northern Britain I toured former industrial areas, but they are not thus depressing.
But it isn't just the Japanese competition that killed Detroit. Detroit failed due to inner flaws when it went head to head with Japan.
Second, why is it that there are no other industries in that state? Texas used to rely totally on the oil extraction industry. Texas has used the initial rush from oil to attract companies that make oil drilling equipment, to diversify into semiconductors, and has also spent the last thirty years trying to make itself more friendly to business.
The only long term threat to Texas is that it will attract too many Mexicans. Incidentally, I can't think of a single politician that has ever come out against the Mexicanization of the United States.
Let me put it this way: Why is it that there is a Texas Instruments but not a Michigan Instruments?
Michigan represents an entire failed way of organizing an American state, with a public culture revolving around screwing The Man, socialism, and Catholicism. Texas represents low taxes, business, Protestantism and sadly also mixing with Mexicans.
Teas has no state income tax, while Michigan has an income, a gross receipts tax on business, and the city of Detroit itself has a city income tax. These people ruin their own state and if they move to another state and don't assimilate they help push their new state to the left.
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