{"id":32680,"date":"2009-06-16T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:15:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:40","slug":"flint_michigan_native_bulldoze_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/16\/flint_michigan_native_bulldoze_it\/","title":{"rendered":"Flint, Michigan Native: Bulldoze It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Here\u2019s Alex, Flushing, Michigan. You\u2019re up next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. I\u2019m glad you\u2019re there. I enjoy listening to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks so much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, I wanted to comment on that thing about Flint that you\u2019ve been bringing up. And I\u2019m a Republican, so don\u2019t doubt that one bit. But I wanted to say that definitely there\u2019s areas of Flint that really need to be torn down, and that city really needs to be cleaned up, and they need to do something in that city that\u2019s going to help them generate tax dollars as far as… Get new businesses in there and just so they can even pay the public service people as far as the police department and the other services that they need to take care of, you know? But other than that, you know, I mean I lived —<\/p>\n

RUSH: How far is Flushing, Michigan, from Flint?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Flushing is probably about, oh, five miles, eight miles outside of the city. I\u2019ve lived in that area all my life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you are in Flint frequently?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes. Well, I\u2019m an over-the-road truck driver so not as much as I once was. I mean, I\u2019m gone for a month at a time but even when I\u2019m home —<\/p>\n

RUSH: See?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — I don\u2019t like going into the city.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look at what just happened. I said, ‘Oh, you\u2019re in Flint frequently.\u2019 ‘No, no, no, no, no, no!\u2019 You didn\u2019t want to be identified as being in Flint very often, even though you\u2019re only eight miles away.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Give the excuse you\u2019re an over-the-road truck driver. So you live in a suburban of Flint?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. And you agree…? The story is that 40% of the place needs to be bulldozed.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, for the areas that I\u2019m thinking, Rush, that could be 40%. There\u2019s part of the city — and not to be disrespectful to the people that live in that part of the city, but there\u2019s areas that just, you know, make the city look in pretty bad disarray.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who\u2019s the mayor? What political party is the mayor in Flint?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s a Democratic, and there was a guy named Don Williams (sic) and he recently just got out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the city council is dominated by which political party?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Democrat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Democrat. And is state government in Michigan dominated by which political party?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Democrat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, and for a long, long, long, long, long, long time, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, except for the good years of Engler.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, there was an interlude in there. You\u2019re absolutely right. Well, you lived there and say 40% of it needs to be bulldozed so that people will move back.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to move back. I think there are nice suburbs of Flint where people are much happier and they can be there with their families. Probably some of the schools are better than what\u2019s in the city of Flint.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, if you\u2019re going to bulldoze 40% of Flint and bulldozing 40% of Flint will not cause people to return and have it grow, why bulldoze it all? If everybody prefers to live in cities close to it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there\u2019s people that probably enjoy living in the city. They\u2019ve been there for years and I\u2019m sure they would want to see the city improve. They probably wouldn\u2019t be against this plan. I mean, no one wants to see a bunch of people be forced out of their homes because of this, you know. But if it can eventually improve things to where people want to move there then by all means. You know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait. This is a new twist because the story I read said that 40% of the town needs to be bulldozed because 40% of the homes and other structures are unoccupied. Now you\u2019re talking about bulldozing homes that are occupied as well.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the areas that you\u2019re speaking of… Okay, now, I mentioned the northern part of the city, okay? There\u2019s areas where I grew up in when I was a child that now are much worse. Like I took my children into an area where I grew up when I was a baby just a couple months ago, and I want to tell you what, Rush. I was scared. I drove down that street…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, fine. Now, we can say, ‘Okay, it needs to be bulldozed,\u2019 but nobody is going to go back there precisely because no changes will be made that led to the fact that 40% of the town is a ghost town or what have you. What bothers me about this is that this is a country that has always prided itself on growth, economic growth and economic opportunity. Now, I understand. We hear of hurricanes wiping out towns. There was a Kansas town wiped out by a tornado, and they rebuilt it. It\u2019s amazing to listen to Democrats say, ‘We don\u2019t have any interest in rebuilding Flint. We want to bulldoze it,\u2019 and then the guy come up with the idea. Obama says, ‘Hey, apply your theory to 50 of our cities.\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, folks, I have thought about it, I\u2019ve given this considerable thought. I\u2019ve given this more thought in the last ten minutes than most people think about anything in their life. And I am ready to change my mind on bulldozing Flint. I say go for it. Let\u2019s just bulldoze it. Well, what made me think of this was my answer to the guy\u2019s question on bankruptcy. By the way, the first purpose of the TARP bailout was to buy up all the toxic assets, and then it was to get credit going. We haven\u2019t done either with the money. But now I\u2019m sort of looking at bulldozing these cities as bankruptcy. They should have been let go long ago. They were down the tubes long ago. We tried propping them up with urban renewal and it didn\u2019t work. We were hoodwinked into being called names if we just let these cities go. So we kept pumping money in there, we kept pumping welfare, food stamps, all these things \u2019cause we loved \u2019em and we cared for them, but the proof that a government can\u2019t revive anything is Flint, Michigan. <\/p>\n

What really sent Flint south was when GM shut down there and moved or left. Well, I better check. I better check if there\u2019s still GM operations in Flint. If there are, they\u2019ve really been downsized. But whatever, if GM\u2019s not involved in it, whatever is the problem in Flint, Michigan, what have we done to try to save it? Every government program under the sun, and what\u2019s happened? We got boarded-up houses that now the leaders of the town say need to be bulldozed, forty percent of the town. Now, this is probably what needs to happen to a lot of California, folks, and other places where we\u2019re going in debt propping up failure. It is what it is. We can\u2019t keep pumping all this federal and state money in because we have proven that pumping federal and state money doesn\u2019t spur growth in cities or anything else. GM, I mean, if $50 billion in bailout or 20 can\u2019t save \u2019em, let it go. And then if Flint rises out of its own ashes, fine and dandy. There\u2019s another added benefit. Every damn one of these cities is a blue city, I\u2019ll guaran-damn-tee you, meaning mostly Democrats, so you bulldoze it and you disburse a bunch of Obama voters, it has great political future ramifications for the Republicans. Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Dave in Pittsburgh, I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Greetings from the City of Champions. I called regarding bulldozing 40% of Flint, Michigan, and I have a thought about it. Maybe this is what President Obama really meant by ‘shovel-ready jobs\u2019 from the Porkulus package.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Shovel-ready jobs, bulldozing Flint and other American cities. (laughing) You think it\u2019s a terrible idea to bulldoze these places?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, it\u2019s an awful idea. I guess it would be the easiest way to tear our American cities down that have been being mishandled by liberals for years, and obviously they won\u2019t have a chance to prosper under Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The point here (there is a point) is when you let liberals decide what\u2019s going to be bulldozed, then anything is up for grabs. Now, right now what\u2019s being talked about in Flint, according to the report that I saw — and I think it was the Los Angeles Times yesterday. What\u2019s being talked about being bulldozed in Flint is unoccupied houses, boarded-up houses. And, you know, general neighborhoods where nobody is. Now, if there is talk about bulldozing neighborhoods where people live that\u2019s a different thing. But this guy that\u2019s in charge of this is a big lib and he\u2019s in city council, and the Obama people have asked him, ‘You know, hey, apply your theory here to 50 of our cities.\u2019 Once the libs start talking about bulldozing things, that\u2019s a good point, excellent point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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