[Arkansas Toothpick]

This is actually encouraging. Since I think the nation is headed the way of Detroit, it is good to see a light at the end of that tunnel. Americans DO have the will to survive and thrive!

[cripplecreek]

I've been saying it all along. Free Market conservatives would be wise to take advantage of the freedom hidden in the Detroit disaster. Where my sister lives in Livonia, they have private security they frees up cops for other areas of the city.



Michigan legislative action thread

[faithhopecharity]

someday Detroit will be rebuilt but it will be primarily by private funds and investment.
not by government programs, other than essential infrastructural improvements as may be necessary.

government can also review its various laws and regulations to see which ones further depress the economy

there are quite a number of them, and SOME at least could be modified or dropped...to enable the American economy to recover somewhat...

[econjack]

Brown's philosophy is that he would rather hire people that who see violence as a last resort, and the handful of Detroit police officers that who actually worked with Brown in the earlier years and have an interest in genuine protection now work for TMC.

There...fixed. If you want to write for a living, at least learn the rules of grammar.

[Secret Agent Man]

No, the budget cuts are the result of 60 years of liberal mismanagement and corruption that ran unchecked.

Draconian measures to get the city under control are not why Detroit is the way it is now. the city is the way it is because of how it’s been (not) run, and corruptly run, the last 60 years.

I can see why they say that though. These people are the very same folks that blame doctors for their morbidly sick eating everything diabetic mom abusing her health for decades, that finally dies, it’s the docs fault and sues the doctor. They are the very same people that blame the cops for shooting their son who was on drugs pointing a gun at them, saying he was a good boy. And then suing the city.

[Paine in the Neck]

...their buses run on soy-based biofuel.

I smell a non-free market subsidy in there somewhere.

[BitWielder1]

A successful business in Detroit? Other than drug dealing? Can't have that.
Government will strangle it with regulations soon enough.

[HamiltonJay]

While I am glad folks are making some money, me thinks I’ll pass on a partridge family bus going through the inner city of detroit where folks are allowed to drink their own booze while riding.

[from occupied ga]

Anyone taking bets on how long they’re allowed to operate before the government either shuts them down or demands so much protection money (oops “fees and taxes”) that they put them out of business?

[Mad Dawgg]

"The payment system is, of course, far cheaper and fairer."

Not to worry, once the unions muscle in they'll "fix" that cheaper and fairer nonsense! [/s]

[Fester Chugabrew]

I would think insurance laws will be drafted to put this transportation business under for good.

[cripplecreek]

One of the reasons the future looks brighter for Detroit.

Michigan most improved

http://247wallst.com/2013/01/03/the-states-which-recovered-most-and-least-from-the-recession/2/

[whitedog57]

If it works, gov’t will tax it, unionize it and bury it in regulations.