[Jack Black]

It's not that clear that the paintings belong to the city.

And almost all the paintings were given in trust for the perpetual enjoyment of the residents of the city. Were they now to be auctioned off the heirs of the donors could sue and recover the art-work.

Some part of the collection was bought with the budget, those could be probably be sold.

Property rights are no longer really meaningful. It's sort of sad that when the "white flight" took place, the feeling citizens did not have the presence of mind to take their museums with them.

I have many relatives buried in Detroit cemeteries. There is a small industry of people moving their dead outside the city, so it's not just the living who are leaving.

Detroit Boat Club - a sad decrepit relic of bygone times.

[Abathar]

My grandfather was vice-Admiral of that club, my father proposed to my mother during dinner there.

[cripplecreek]

As far as I can tell the city does own The Wedding Dance. Obviously only a fool would sell everything but there are a lot of extremely valuable objects and selling 2 or 3 would be an acceptable loss for taking care of the immediate shortfall.

http://www.mackinac.org/20066

Obviously its the long term debt that is the real problem in Detroit and the only way out that I see is through privatization of services and slashing taxes on business large and small.

[D Rider]

Detroit was once the most modern city in the world. Amazing what half a century of Progressive control can do.

[Nailbiter]

What will the rats do, if the dead leave the city who will vote for the remaining democrats.