Let's pass the hat and buy Detroit!

I had this great idea: Everybody I know pitches in and buys a huge tract of Detroit's abandoned neighborhoods, and together we build a utopic paradise! We'll raze all of the dilapidated buildings to the ground and create an economy based on recycling scrap building materials and Chryslers, which I assume are just laying around up there. We'll develop a clean energy system based on harnessing the motion of the lake's currents, grow food year-round in massive greenhouses converted from empty manufacturing buildings, and push Michigan legislature to decriminalize marijuana in city limits, creating a vast new tourism industry: New Detroit, the Amsterdam of the Midwest! Since nearly all corporate chain stores have pretty much cut their losses and bolted, we'll start our own trade system, mostly bartering, and with the incoming dollars from the pot district, we will build a community trust, whereby everyone who needs help, or food or a job can get it. It will be the American spirit at its finest! Triumph of hope over despair! It will become the model for the new Post-Industrial American City, and many others will follow (I'm looking at you, Gary, IN) We will do this because it needs to be done, with thousands of Nouveau Uncle Sams and Rosie the Riveters pitching in with the common goal of making the world a better place for generations to come! Flags will fly and a chorus of "America the Beautiful" will ring out to the far reaches of the nation, swelling chests with civic pride, and the confidence that America will not just survive the toughest times, she will thrive on their adversity and overcome!

Or maybe not. I dunno.