[Bon mots]

[1rudeboy]

for your list

[Gay State Conservative]

Deep decay? As in *forthcoming* deep decay? Good God...I've been to Detroit...a couple of times...recently.THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO DECAY!

[cripplecreek]

Orr said he thinks the stories of Detroit's demise "are over-rated in my opinion." "The city center is a lot better than people thought,"

I tend to agree despite the beloved fantasies. The fact is that many much larger cities are racking up debt at an astounding rate with every intent of dumping it on the American taxpayer at some point.

[GoldenPup]

Orr, a Washington, D.C.-based bankruptcy lawyer,

Who until last week had property leins on his property for non-payment of property taxes...
Unbelievable!! Birds of a feather??

[UCANSEE2]

Except for the business district and a cultural area including a university, museum and some theaters, the city of ...

[UCANSEE2]

As he travels a sprawling city larger than Boston, San Francisco and Manhattan combined, he will encounter the realities of Detroit's long downward slide.

[43north]

Wow, talk about a thankless task. The corruptocrats have let Detroit run into the ground and they do not want anyone to find out where they’ve stashed the loot that they’ve pilfered. That’s why jesse jackson is coming to lead the inevitable protests - all that loot was pilfered by black politicians. As we all know, jesse and his family are as pure as the driven snow... Oh my bad! That’s racist!

[shove_it]

Here’s hoping Mr. Orr has a first rate security detail, especially when he starts rooting out the political grafters.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ever seen the show Extreme Pawn based in Detroit? That'll wake you right up about the natives.

[cripplecreek]

[hondact200]

Decay? What decay? many parts of detroit are just dead? when a deer is just bones is it in decay or just plain gone?

What part of dead do not they understand? the suburbs of detroit is where life is at? Just like many large cities the city itself is dead.

How much money is going to be dumped into saving detroit?

In the little city I live in the UP of MI - $1.5 million dollars is being spent in just one building that has been empty for over 34 years. The rest of the city has problems but the infinite wisdom of the city administration spend on 1 building. Dumb Dumb.

[LADY J]

Wow!! Sounds like what America is going to look like when Obama gets done with us!!!

So - who will WE call when & if he's ever out of office?

[Jack Hydrazine]

What are the property taxes like in Detroit? How about the gun control laws?

[Darren McCarty]

"The city center is a lot better than people thought," he said, and he hopes he can push that recovery momentum out to the neighborhoods.

Downtown and Wayne State aren't the big problem. The problem is the thought process that a 'vibrant downtown' will save the city. Schools, jobs, crime, costs, and property values are the keys to a city/community.

[exnavy]

Mr Orr is in a lose, lose situation.

[fortheDeclaration]

Who is John Galt?