Ann Arbor also has a very large number of taxpayer supported jobs both at UofM and municipal.
If given a choice between vaporizing Detroit or Ann Arbor, Detroit could sleep easy. Detroit is kind of a mindless uncaring leech but Ann Arbor is an angry, arrogant, and demanding leech.
“If given a choice between vaporizing Detroit or Ann Arbor, Detroit could sleep easy. Detroit is kind of a mindless uncaring leech but Ann Arbor is an angry, arrogant, and demanding leech.”
Back in the 1980s, I sometimes thought about how easy it would have been for the Soviets to launch a surprise attack on a Saturday morning and hit up all of the colleges having football games. They would have wiped out the next generation of US leaders, and they could have even done it with conventional weapons (assuming their targeting was right on).
Then it occurred to me how stupid that would be...since the people they would be vaporizing would be the ones to carry their water in the generation, like Obama’s bunch. So Saturday football games were safe after all.