{"id":5706,"date":"2010-01-15T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2010-01-15T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T14:38:07","slug":"poor_old_detroit_whats_it_good_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/poor_old_detroit_whats_it_good_for.html","title":{"rendered":"Poor Old Detroit, What&#8217;s It Good For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/this_candidate_kills_islamofascists_and_urban_poverty.html\">blunt-force racial coding during campaigns<\/a> . . . when we get to three it&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/mike_bam_bank_tax_will_wreck_new_qOszNSlmtXsti5khljxD0O\">a trend<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday that President Obama&#8217;s plan to slap a tax on banks is aimed squarely at the city&#8217;s lifeblood and could turn Manhattan into a crumbling wreck like Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg warned that the plan could bring about the collapse of the city&#8217;s financial sector and starve New York of revenue it needs to provide basic services.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if you want to see what happens to a city when their major industry fails, just take a look at Detroit,&#8221; which has been reeling from the collapse of the auto industry.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just for blunt-force racial coding during campaigns . . . when we get to three it&#8217;ll be a trend: Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday that President Obama&#8217;s plan to slap a tax on banks is aimed squarely at the city&#8217;s lifeblood and could turn Manhattan into a crumbling wreck like Detroit. Bloomberg warned that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5708,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}