Yes, all of that about Benton Harbor’s budget is true. But is the answer for a larger central government to send a bureaucrat, disband the elected local government that, for good or bad, represents the people of the area, and impose their will?
I thought we just had a party about the issue of large central governments telling smaller, regional ones how to conduct their business. Something about tea, I think it was...?
PS: Countdown until Washington catches on to this idea and decides that southern, mid-western and south-western states are “poorly managed” and in desperate need of someone to suspend their local governments and show them how they ought to be run.
This is the state’s equivalent of a bankruptcy process, that they didn’t have before Snyder signed the law.
If a mess like this went to BK court, do you think a judge would put up with these shenanigans?
1. Reform the government to restore order.
or
2. Appoint a strongman, a dictator to restore order.
Since the people of Benton Harbor proved they are not capable of self government at this time, option 2. is necessary until they are given another chance at option 1.