[Texas Fossil]

Oh, NO, Oh NO. It will not work!

That is the response by Detroit Officials and media pundits about the Emergency Manager approach to fixing the financial problems with Detroit.

Yes, the governor did call for the appointment of an Emergency Manager to take charge of the city. Because it became evident it would never be solved locally.

The article at the link is the usual anti-Capitalist rant you would expect for Detroitistan.

[1rudeboy]

Won’t work in Detroit, hasn’t worked elsewhere? Doesn’t that describe a typical resident of Detroit in the first place?

[ASA Vet]

General William Hull had the right idea.

[DuncanWaring]

For those not inclined to read the entire article, it comes down to this:

Detroit needs a bailout. A reliable source of funding is required to invest in the “New Detroit” project, which will turn the city into an oasis of urban farming and renewable energy.

That's the solution - gardens and windmills.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

What they need to do is get Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap out of retirement, if he is still alive and send him in there to run it.

I'd pay for a ticket to see that.

[Chode]

Take him to DETROIT!!!

[William Tell]

Since this is a CBS editorial, it must be that CBS in the past has supported candidates whose policies WOULD work to put Detroit back on a solid footing.

Too bad the people didn't take the advice of the liberal media in electing their government.

It couldn't be that CBS is part of the problem, could it?

[Theophilus]

Won’t work. Has as much of a chance as Afghanistan. Pouring money onto evil is like pouring gasoline on a fire. Let nature take it’s course.

[Lancey Howard]

It worked in Philadelphia during Fast Eddie’s two terms as mayor during the 1990s.

[SaraJohnson]

Let them organize riots and burn the rest of the city down.

We should use Detroit as a National prison city and put all the criminals to live there with one another. Cut off communication with the world, patrol the boudries so they can not escape and close the prisons all over the nation. Let them sink or swim.

This is what England once did with criminals.

[GeronL]

depending on who it is, they might just force the whole state to bail Detroit out.

[taildragger]

"None of those municipalities have yet to transform into hotbeds of economic growth."

Oh, contrare dear author. They may have not grown, but they stopped the bleeding and sometimes that is all you can do

I think it was either Hamtramack or Highland Park he mentioned, that had something like 83 separate Union Pensions. The EFM froze them, and co-mingled them via his powers, something that couldn't have been done any other way. He stopped the insanity.

This EFM for Detroit will have to do something drastic like layoff the City Council for 19 months of his 18 month reign, or pay them only a dollar so they quit.

If I am not mistaken his scope of power will allow him to do so.

IMHO this EFM is going to need a team of people, each perhaps taking a department, and working 10 to 12 hrs a day 6 or 7 days a week to make rapid changes that have to be darn etched in stone so that a new City Council cannot FUBAR all their work after they are gone.

If the don't get it done in the alotted time, I think Chapter 9 or 11 is the only answer.

[Kenton]

Nothing short of full-scale military occupation and a Marshall Plan will work. In fact, maybe not that.

Bulldoze it and return it to farmland.

[cripplecreek]

The republicans are in control this time and their solution includes creating a pro business environment which is already drawing business to town.

[Menehune56]

Eric Thomas, the author of this masterpiece.

[Springman]

Ping.

[Tupelo]

“OPINION: Emergency Manager Won’t Work In Detroit, Hasn’t Worked Elsewhere”

Neither has socialism, but that has not stopped them from trying it every where they can.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

IMHO, the "real" agenda is hinted at in this comment: "Detroit needs a bailout. A reliable source of funding is required to invest in the “New Detroit” project, which will turn the city into an oasis of urban farming and renewable energy."

Here's my prediction: The EM takes over, makes some high-profile "painful" cuts, and thus establishes his bona fides as a hard-nosed financial manager. Then, he announces that Detroit needs a bailout. He promotes "investment" in the “New Detroit” project by the federal government. Obama then has all the excuse he needs to divert a billion or so to the cause.

[FLCowboy,]

Then the answer is let the city declare bankruptcy, wiping out civil servant’s pensions.

[Altura Ct.]

What’s the answer?

[Does so]

bfl