Posted on 02/28/2013 4:55:03 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
The reckoning has arrived in Detroit. Michigan has an aggressive emergency manager law that allows the government to take over failing cities rather than sending them into bankruptcy. [...]
[Mayor Dave] Bing wouldn’t directly reveal what the governor told him, but said the decision is what most have expected. He spoke in terms indicating that an emergency manager is indeed coming to Detroit.
Can I nominate someone?
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I suspect a whole lot of city council members will be investigated by the FBI before this is done.
Rob Ford is working an awesome turnaround here in Toronto, mind you things didn’t get nearly as bad as Detroit or NYC. I guess the main difference between Toronto and Detroit is that most of our voters work and pay taxes.
And former councilors, if he’s allowed access to records back to the 50’s.
Seriously, who would want the grueling job of turning that city around? It would take decades and most of the populace and city employees would fight every step of the way.
Seriously, who would want the grueling job of turning that city around? It would take decades and most of the populace and city employees would fight every step of the way.
The 3 tribes will have to be broken. Kilpatrick, Cockerell, and Conyers.
Who’s Mitt Romney?
Detroit today and NYC at its worst during the 70’s are orders of magnitude apart. NYC was much, much, much, much, much better off.
I was thinking bulldozers, dump trucks and vast, new areas for agriculture.
True, NYC was able to keep its economic base.
MI ping.
Of course. But you won't get anywhere with the bigots and Romney haters here. They would rather see Detroit crumble to dust than to see Romney turn it around, salvage a once great city, maybe even give honest governance and free market reforms some cred. It's the same over there... judging from the comments, FR has become identical to Slate.
Of course the new inhabitants of the elite communities will find their neighborhoods will remain pristine and secure . . . their new friends will be courteous and helpful . . . and their property values will remain elevated.
Or probably not.
I had a boss tell me one time that a plan without resources isn’t a plan....it’s a fairy tale. It’s going to take resources to turn Detroit around. Where are those resources going to come from? Detroit? They’d have already turned it around. Rural Michigan? Were they the ones who overspent? Georgia? Why should anyone else pay for Detroit? There wasn’t a hurricane or earthquake. The people of Detroit brought this on themselves. They need to get themselves out of it.
Come on people! How many times do i have to inform you! Mitt could do the job from the WH! Since the people didn’t think so it’s tough titty to Detroit. Mitt shouldn’t waste his time. It’s not like he has to prove himself again.
Come on people! How many times do i have to inform you! Mitt could do the job from the WH! Since the people didn’t think so it’s tough titty to Detroit. Mitt shouldn’t waste his time. It’s not like he has to prove himself again.
Come on people! How many times do i have to inform you! Mitt could do the job from the WH! Since the people didn’t think so it’s tough titty to Detroit. Mitt shouldn’t waste his time. It’s not like he has to prove himself again.
Come on people! How many times do i have to inform you! Mitt could do the job from the WH! Since the people didn’t think so it’s tough titty to Detroit. Mitt shouldn’t waste his time. It’s not like he has to prove himself again.
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