I don't blame liberals for Detroit's economic problems, but I do blame them for not trying to solve them in any meaningful way. It's not the fault of liberals that foreign auto manufacturers produced higher quality cars for lower costs and undercutting Detroit's economic base. However, other regions that have had one dimensional economies that fell apart or scaled back sharply found ways to diversify to weather economic adjustments. It usually involves better educating the local workforce, maintaining an orderly society, and fostering a business climate that is conducive to entrepreneurship. In other words, it involves the opposite of what Detroit has done over the last 60 years. Frankly, Texas is a good example. The oil industry has its booms and busts, but the reason Texas doesn't turn into Mogadishu (except Waco) when oil busts is that Texas's business climate is favorable to all kinds of business. So though it hurts when oil tanks, it's not catastrophic.
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