[norwaypinesavage]

The city of Detroit is corrupt to the core. In the early '80s I worked in an auto company with a gentleman who quit his white collar job to go to work for than Detroit mayor Coleman Young. Young was caught up in a kickback scheme involving hauling sludge from the city waste treatment plant. The gentleman I knew, took the rap for Young, and was sent to jail. His release several years later was celebrated by Mayor Young with a fresh new job, and a coming home party.

Fast forward thirty years to today. City councilwoman Monica Conyers, wife of US representative John Conyers, was just sent to jail for three years for her part in a scheme involving kickbacks in the city of Detroit's sludge hauling contract. The convicted felon from thirty years past still has a cushy job with the current Detroit mayor. Detroit has 1/3 of the population it had when it saved the world as the "Arsenal of Democracy". This means that 2 out of every three houses within the city boundaries lies vacant and crumbling. Of the remaining houses, only 60% of the owners even pay their property taxes.

How do you fix this? I vote for plow it under and plant beans.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

How do you fix this? I vote for plow it under and plant beans.

Somebody (like FOMOCO) could pick it up as a bargain, fire all the officials and bureaucRATs and have the State Police round them up for prosecution...sue or prosecute the unions out of existence, and build a city called Detroit there.