Progress Michigan, a progressive think tank with the motto "Powering Progress Together", touts the ninth annual Netroots Nation conference coming to Detroit in a rather odd way.  Netroots Nation is the largest gathering of progressive activists in the country, and it will have an A-list of American progressive professionals from the veep, Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Keith Ellison, Rep. Gary Peters, Rep. John Conyers, etc. speaking at the conference.  

 

Here's how they advertise the big event:

 

 

"We're in Detroit, It's Going Down." 

 

This is the most prophetic of statements about Detroit's future if it continues to be led by progressive politicians and their tried and failed policies of the past.  How appropriate for a group of progressives eager to share the bailout money from the state amongst themselves and their cronies.

 

 

 

For the record, Detroit has already gone down, and all we will see here is a bunch of left-leaners trying to use the state bailout money to travel down the same progressive route to disaster that led Detroit to where it is now, until the next bailout.  Progressive policies did not propel Detroit into one of the world's most prosperous cities after the war, a free market, and the legacy of Henry Ford's high wage policies did. 

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Its like the progressive's just don't get it that liberal/progressive policies of the past have helped kill the great city of Detroit, there is no one to blame but themselves no matter how much they might try to blame it on republicans. I know a lot of people were not real crazy about the Emergency Manager being brought in to try and fix Detroit but I think it was the right way to go, if they hadn't brought him in all that would of happened is that they would try to continue to 'fix' things with more money that will be wasted because you simply just can't keep throwing money at that problem to fix it, you need better policies.

The state has a very real interest in seeing that the cities that make it up are ran smoothly, efficiently, and without corruption.  The EM and EFM (Emergency Finance Manager) are meant to be used only when the totality of the circumstances make a city's self-rule detrimental to its own survival.  I think that any EM or EFM should operate transparently and work for the benefits of the city's residents first, the state second, and the city's officials last.

More like "powering regress" is what this event should be named. Detroit is the biggest disgrace to this state in history right now, and maybe the entire nation. Detroit is what it made for itself, failure at the highest level of corruption and economic doom. Bailout money is not going to fix broken policies and broken thinking. These progressive/liberals need to be replaced, from top to bottom. Dittos Dave, you're on track. 

Whenever I hear the word "progressive" is applied to politics I think of the word "communist" because it seems quite clear that the two are being applied in today's World as equals and in my opinion are cousins of the same philosophy. Today's progressives consider it necessary if not mandatory that they steal from those that work hard and give to those that do not. They think they know what is best for others and forcibly apply thier brand of aggressive ideaology on citizens who only want to improve their lot in life without being controlled. 

http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index.ssf/2012/04/brown_is_progress...

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