FROM WEALTH TO WELFARE TO RUIN: Now Detroit

     At the conclusion of the French & Indian War (the Seven Years' War), the French lost to the British, and the winners pondered what to take from the defeated.  The British toyed with the idea of taking from France its richest colony in the New World - Haiti.  Ben Franklin, from the American colonies, advised the British not to do that.  Instead take Canada from the French.  He believed that would be far more valuable, and it would remove an enemy from neighboring the British colonies of North America.  In the end, the British took Canada, Haiti remained rich and French, for a time.  Then there was the American revolution, which led to an independent, and wealthy U. S. A.  Soon after, the Haitians revolted against the French.  They too won their independence.  Their new leaders were to eventually convert Haiti from one of the richest places in the New World to one of the poorest.
   Today, the City of Detroit declared bankruptcy.  In 1960 Detroit had the highest average income of any city in the US.  It had a population of 1.8 million people.  Then the liberal Democrats took over and initiated the policies we associate with liberal Democrats - high taxes, high welfare, soft on crime, etc.  Today, there are only about 700,000 residents of Detroit.  It is bankrupt.  Already, Birmingham, Alabama, another center of liberal Democratic control, went bankrupt.  California teeters on the brink.
   From wealth to poverty; from riches to basket case.  Almost every American city, almost all run by liberal Democrats, is on the same track, the road to ruin.  If the cities of America collapse, what will happen to the nation as a whole?  Perhaps, demography IS destiny!----------Hugh Murray