Not all is going well in China...

[Photon440]

Here's a nice ghost town in China. Large enough for a million people, new and modern, and...98% deserted.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-ordos-ghost-city-pictures-2014-2

 

[Budnicks]

I saw that stuff a few months back on one of the many new outlets, creepy eerie stuff, no businesses, no service stations, no shopping & all that infrastructure & nobody living there, kind of like Detroit has become...

 

[Meep-Meep]

But they have a Mosque.

 

[Moparsmitty]

They sell us cheap crap that we don't need, then build cities that nobody lives in. Sound like they have it all figured out. :icon_scratch:

 

[Dennis H]

But they have a Mosque.

...for the Religion of Peace.

 

[detmatt1]

I saw that stuff a few months back on one of the many new outlets, creepy eerie stuff, no businesses, no service stations, no shopping & all that infrastructure & nobody living there, kind of like Detroit has become...

Detroit is doing what it needs to do to make its way back and I'm excited to be part of it.

 

[satman72]

I sincerely hope Detroit succeeds.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Looks like they waste almost as much money as much as the US!

 

[ws27]

Looks like they waste almost as much money as much as the US!

Well, it was the US's money at one point. LOL

 

[Bruzilla]

Speaking of Detroit, I was just helping a company there write a proposal to the State Department to do some international business for them. They had no experience with writing proposals, but worse had no experience in doing the work the State Department needed done on either a domestic or international basis. Talk about trying to make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

But, since Detroit has been designated as one of those special economic zones, lack of skills or experience doesn't matter. As long as the company is based in Detroit, they get the work. What could possibly go wrong with that approach?

 

[SteveSS]

I've been to China, not this part, and the one thing they have an abundance of is people. People, people everywhere! After awhile it freaks you out how many people are around you. They will solve the problems because the need the room for the mass amounts of people they have. All this idolization of Genghis Khan. He was a ruthless murderer. A destroyer of cities and populations. Even killing his own family. He never built anything, just destroyed it.

Detroit scares me on the other hand. Not because of the dwindling population but the drugs and crime of the population that is there. Seems like that old movie, "Escape from New York." If Detroit could start from a ghost town with just a few people I would think it has a chance.

 

[krowbar]

Maybe the Chinese are building US test cities. Getting people accustomed so when they eventually own everything here, it won't be as hard of a transition for the Red Army invasion.

 

[Bruzilla]

It's all the curse of central planning. When has any American city of this magnitude ever just sprung up out of nothing? All our major cities started out as forts or other military bases, or civilian settlements with easy access to transportation, and slowly grew as the population and local businesses grew.

The only time this has ever been attempted in the US, that I know of, was the Columbia, MD experiment, but Columbia is basically a series of five housing developments built around a business center, and not really a city and barely even a town.

 

[krowbar]

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