{"id":2772,"date":"2013-12-22T13:56:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T18:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godonomics\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:54:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:54:28","slug":"the-demise-of-detroit-a-dr-suess-inspired-godonomics-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godonomics\/2013\/12\/the-demise-of-detroit-a-dr-suess-inspired-godonomics-poem.html","title":{"rendered":"The Demise of Detroit: A Dr Suess Inspired Godonomics Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>THE DEMISE OF DETROIT<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/i><b> \u00a0<\/b>My wife grew up under the great political promises of prosperity from Michigan leaders. \u00a0We spent our wedding night in Detroit almost twenty years ago before flying out on our honeymoon. The city was much larger, more prosperous, less bankrupt, and less &#8220;bull-dozed&#8221; in those days. \u00a0Michigan has been a case study in the ability of government interventionism to act like a parasite on the host of a great collection of individuals. \u00a0 While many wise people &#8220;saw danger coming and warned of a different path,&#8221; \u00a0the &#8220;fools kept going&#8221; and now many &#8220;are suffering for it.&#8221; \u00a0(Proverbs 22:3). When many liberals convert to conservatism, they can summarize their journey with one word, &#8220;Detroit!&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0As I describe in my book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Godonomics-Country-Wallet-Through-Biblical-Principles\/dp\/1601424779\">Godonomics,<\/a> I took my son to the Henry Ford museum years ago to let him see a time when Detroit was the center of free enterprise, innovation, and job creation. \u00a0 That day, Lego was putting on a display involving a giant lego Grinch. \u00a0 We laughed as I explained to him that the Grinches that stole Christmas from Detroit were the corrupt and inefficient politicians that stole liberty, productivity, and generosity from the great people of Michigan. \u00a0 \u00a0The image was stark but true as the Grinch hovered over Henry Ford.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godonomics\/files\/2013\/07\/2366851259_b30739b809_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2776\" alt=\"2366851259_b30739b809_b\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/201\/2013\/07\/2366851259_b30739b809_b-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Reminds me of my favorite Dr Suess poem about the city of Hatch Hatch. \u00a0They had a town bee that wasn&#8217;t working hard enough, you see. \u00a0So they hire a bee watcher to watch the town bee. \u00a0The bee of Hatch hatch doesn&#8217;t work much harder, well, at least not Match; so they assume the bee watcher isn&#8217;t watching well enough. They hire a bee watcher, watcher. \u00a0 So, as the pages turn, a bee watcher watcher, watches the bee watcher who watches the bee. \u00a0At the end of the day, you have lots of bee watchers, oversight, and regulation, but the bee never does work much harder. \u00a0This is the tale of the demise of Detroit: \u00a0Lots of regulation, bureaucracy, and inefficient programs and laws promising to bring jobs to the state. \u00a0 Never did the bee watcher watchers dare to question their original assumptions and remove their good intentioned gluttonous oversight. \u00a0Free enterprise and limited government can be traced back to the building blocks of capitalism that God gave to Moses including private property, the rule of law, incentive, hard work, and a healthy skepticism toward centralized government and control. \u00a0 \u00a0Since Detroit is declaring bankruptcy, I was inspired to write a poem about the demise of Detroit inspired by Dr Suess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In a place called Detroit, where the politicians were sleazy,<br \/>\nThere lived powerful leaders who took life quite easy<br \/>\nThey feasted and feasted like pondiverous pigs<br \/>\nWhen it came to decisions, they could zag and zig<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">They had eaten themselves out of houses and home<br \/>\nRun up their credit cards buying fliverous floam<br \/>\nThey were overspending EACH YEAR by millions, I mean billions<br \/>\nThey told us not to worry, \u201d at least it wasn\u2019t zillions\u201d<br \/>\nThey told the concerned citizens of the prosperous town<br \/>\nAnd they\u2019d come up with a plan to turn things around.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We\u2019ll start eating less by cutting our feasting back<br \/>\nBut we\u2019re sooo concerned about what you\u2019ll then lack<br \/>\nSo, we\u2019ll \u201ccut\u201d by eating more, but less more than we\u2019d hoped<br \/>\nA citizen shouted out, \u201cYour thinking\u2019s been doped\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cPigs don\u2019t get leaner by eating more,<br \/>\nThey can\u2019t get cleaner, by rolling mud in their pores<br \/>\nThere\u2019s one simple solution to the problem of how<br \/>\nYou MUST eat much less, and you MUST do it now\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">A pig stood to respond, with his snout taking a whiff<br \/>\nIf we stop eating now, we\u2019ll all fall off a cliff\u2026<br \/>\nThis fearful term put the town in a mood<br \/>\nUntil the pig made a suggestion, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you give us your food\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cIf the citizens gave us more, of their food, \u00a0I just bet,<br \/>\nWe\u2019d quickly be out of the multi billion debt\u201d<br \/>\nSo they wrote some new laws taxing businesses to death \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 They sucked the private sector till it took its last breath<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cThey didn\u2019t spend less, in fact, they spent more<br \/>\nThey withheld all the details because\u201d they were such a bore\u201d<br \/>\nThe pigs kept eating and thought it was funny<br \/>\nThat they\u2019d saved the town from trouble, by taking their money<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The town sighed a big sigh, until reality hit<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And bankruptcy came, and caused such a fit,<br \/>\nThe leaders had a new solution they started to spout<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll ask other States to bail us all out,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Detroit\u2019s problem was spending, so why didn\u2019t they cut<br \/>\nThinking borrowing beats budgeting is a kick in the butt<br \/>\nThe borrower is enslaved to the lender, that\u2019s true,<br \/>\nCapitalism is not just a good idea, It\u2019s God\u2019s idea too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godonomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Www.godonomics.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godonomics\/wp-admin\/www.godonomics.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.godonomics.com\/images\/godonomics-header.png\" width=\"700\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE DEMISE OF DETROIT \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My wife grew up under the great political promises of prosperity from Michigan leaders. \u00a0We spent our wedding night in Detroit almost 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The city was much larger, more prosperous, less bankrupt, and less &#8220;bull-dozed&#8221; in those days. \u00a0Michigan has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Demise of Detroit: A Dr Suess Inspired Godonomics Poem - Godonomics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Demise of Detroit: A Dr Suess Inspired Godonomics Poem - Godonomics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE DEMISE OF DETROIT \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My wife grew up under the great political promises of prosperity from Michigan leaders. \u00a0We spent our wedding night in Detroit almost twenty years ago before flying out on our honeymoon. 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