60s the crown jewel of american manufacturing. and there was one event, there s one cancer that started that spread. and it materialized and it ended up killing detroit yesterday. it was the 350,000 gm workers that walked off the job. they walked off for 67 days. they got their wages increased by 30%, but they realized their might, their muscle. so the uaw basically started it right there. it s been a 40-year decline, ended up with a bankruptcy yesterday. the population of detroit s crashing and burning. but we can do something, we can fix it. we can make detroit a symbol of how not to run a government, how not to run a city. union lover ricky bobby, what do you say? first of all, you are sitting in a city here we bailed out. you remember jerry ford got beat in the presidency because he said new york drop dead, well, the government came in and bailed them out. we absolutely should bailout detroit. first of all, they had every right in the world to go on strike. that s the whole id
citizenship plan. if you make detroit a success, you re an american citizen. put trump in charge or jewrudy giuliani. new immigrants would die to do this. give them a project. you would need more than detroit. yeah. 11 or 15 million. that s not exactly your great capitalist took the jobs took south took half the wages. your unions put not only that. why people don t want to live there because the schools are terrible and the crime is high. crime is high. we need to bail it out. it s a very important city. bail it out? really? we bailed out new york. you got to let something bottom out. every time you bail it out you create a new bottom. it s like the endless bottom. that s your nickname. now your real name is i m the endless bottom. [ laughter ] i apologize.
that point is always going to be relevant. focus on some of the positive things that bob was talking about is that he did mention something that is strikingly different from the sharptons of the world. he says it s getting better. i like that. which flies in the face of race baiting. and that is a positive thing. the next step for him is to start talking to people other than al sharpton. he could have people like shelby steel or thomas come visit the white house and i think that would be a positive thing. he also talked about you got to be fair to him, he talked about black males and aggression and the negative reinforcement in black culture that leads to that. he did connect it to the context of poverty which i sometimes have an issue with because there are a lot of poor people who don t commit crimes, but give him credit or props as we all like to use here, that he s actually starting to address this stuff. maybe this is the beginning of a conversation. but why i thought
caused all of this is just ridiculous. 100% right. detroit population detroit population grew to 2 million people in 1960. and then when the unions did this little game they played, the auto industry left because it was too expensive to do business there. and the city and infrastructure for 2 million people that slunk down to 700,000. i m sorry. greg. i ll say what the problem is and i ll tell you what the solution. in the 2012 election, 98% voted for obama, 2% for romney and it wasn t even that close. i have no sympathy for a city dying from liberal rule who keeps voting in liberals. it s like a hemophiliac who takes up fencing. that was good. here s the solution, solution to the immigration problem, hand detroit over to the 11 million new immigrants. give it to them. say create businesses, build stores because there s no great stores there. everybody s buying their food from local marts. churches, everything. let them have a stab at saving a bad place. i call it the accel
the other thing is what happened is the manufacturers all went down to the south where all this i don t want to say it. be careful. i don t want to say it. where labor was very cheap and cars were not built nearly as well. are they bankrupt? are they bankrupt? the cities they moved to, are they bankrupt? at $7.40 an hour, no. do you think detroit would rather have jobs back? not at the wages they re paying them in the south. isn t it the case, eric, that automotive industry is actually doing fairly well. right. it s the city itself that is falling apart under the weight of all the other obligations that it has. and part of that role is there s so many properties that have been abandoned. and the city got too big. yes. i think maybe one of the things you do is geographically then shrink the city, do some sort of new kind of a homestead act type of thing and require people to clean up those properties and get them back i think because of the strike by the