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To: outpostinmass2
I agree with your take on this piece. Democracy does not guarantee freedom. The people of Detroit, by consistently voting in a government which does not fix the problems, have voted to devour the host and the host has left the building. Bing and Archer may have been better than some, but the city council ....
20 posted on 08/01/2013 6:41:56 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
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To: stayathomemom; outpostinmass2

I thought it was a good article. He says that the Dems claim the people of Detroit aren’t responsible for the mess, because all they did was vote for the corrupt pols. However, he disagrees and says that you can’t deny human responsibility for the situation and make it sound like some kind of impersonal force like a hurricane. They voted again and again for corruption and mismanagement and tolerated it because Detroit is a one -party town, and he doesn’t think the rest of us should be asked to bail out these many dysfunctional Democrat towns and cities that are collapsing under the weight of their own corruption.


23 posted on 08/01/2013 7:11:56 AM PDT by livius
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