George Will: Detroit doesn’t have a fiscal problem, but a 'cultural collapse' (Video)

Daily Caller ^ | July 28, 2013 | Jeff Poor

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On Sunday’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on ABC, Washington Post columnist George Will took on proponents of federal assistance for Detroit, which declared bankruptcy earlier this month.

According to Will, the city isn’t undergoing a fiscal crisis, but is facing a much more serious cultural one, which is the source of its woes.

“Can’t solve the problems because the problems are cultural,” Will said. “You have a city, 139 square miles. You can graze cattle in vast portions of it. Dangerous herds of feral dogs roam in there. You have 3 percent of fourth graders reading at the national math standards. 47 percent of Detroit residents are functionally illiterate. 79 percent of Detroit children are born to unmarried mothers. They don’t have a fiscal problem, Steve. They have a cultural collapse.”

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Will's comments were to the liberals on the panel like Dorothy throwing water on the Wicked Witch of the West.

Nothing Will said was untrue. The idea Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the communist magazine The Nation, finds the truth insulting or offensive is absurd. It is denial. "Deindustrialization" is not causal to low education performance, in fact the opposite should be expected.

And Ratner is a charter member of the New Castrati.