[Mr. Jeeves]

One solution Vogel has proposed is to turn swaths of the city into farmland.

This brings to mind that scene in Atlas Shrugged where Dagny and Hank visit dying Starnesville, former home of the Twentieth Century Motor Company before its socialist owners bankrupted it, and Dagny sees a man out in the fields trying to push a plow.

The only thing that could possibly fix Detroit is to make the whole city a Federal and state tax-free enterprise zone for ten years. But the Democrats would never allow it.

[RayChuang88]

The only thing that could possibly fix Detroit is to make the whole city a Federal and state tax-free enterprise zone for ten years.

I could not agree with you more.

The city needs a visionary mayor of the ilk of Rudolf A. Giuliani to bring that place from the brink of abandonment. I mean, during Giuliani's time as New York City mayor we saw the massive revival of almost every borough in the city, including spectacular improvements to Times Square and Harlem. With the possibility Michigan's state government will take over the affairs of the city, we may just get a visionary mayor that will turn around Detroit into a desirable place to live again.