Art... “Art? What’s the point? Let’s sell off the collection of the DIA to pay the creditors!”
Retired municipal employees... “Takers! Let’s cut or eliminate the pensions of retired workers to pay the creditors!
Hockey Arena: “Great idea! Let’s put the taxpayers on the hook for an additional $400,000,000 for an ice rink that get’s used twenty times a year! If the team leaves town, we will find *something* to sell to pay the creditors!”
Great idea. The Lions will not leave town, nowhere to go. The Lions are like Sad Sack. They are part of the very fiber of the town. On the other hand, should the Chinese decide to buy all of Detroit, they may become the “Shenzhen Lions”.