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Maybe it is time to have a law that public employees can only be so employed for 10 years. No exceptions. And no retirement.
Why beat a dead horse? Let Detroit rot. I sure as hell don’t want to bail them out. They got what they voted for.
A perfect Steyn column! Thanks for the post!
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here is to an astounding leftist success story
All the white firefighters were forced out and moved to other states like Florida, my retired FF hubby was telling me. He worked with many of them.
A couple of weeks ago, I read an essay by a teacher in an all black high school. He posed a question to his students “ What happens if all the white people disappear?” The answer he got was “We’re (Black people) screwed!”. Detroit is what happens on a much grander scale, as most of the whites started leaving in August 1967.
Municipal unions are killing the Cities all over America.
Besides that, uncivilized, criminal negros having extorted almost royalty-like privileges from society have doomed any institution or City they become the majority in.
As far as the Bankruptcy goes why not? Here in Syracuse we are blessed with a precious negro with 3 Bankruptcies under his belt that wants to run for Mayor. An expert I presume.
Mark subbed for Rush yesterday. I was on a road trip and so listened to the whole thing, and almost all of the show was expanding upon and hammering home the general concepts covered in the column.
It was great!
Brilliant as always.
Detroit....The Democrat Edsel City
Mo-town no mo’...
BREAKING NEWS: Detroit Declares Bankruptcy.
Yes, breaking news.
Detroit aka Western Zimbabwe.
Notown the new Chocolate city.
I guess no one asked "what are we doing that isn't working"?
Government officials NEVER ask this question. Instead what they ALWAYS say is "We didn't go far enough." When their redistributionist policies fail to produce what's promised (and they ALWAYS fail in that regard, BUT they buy
Unfortunately they never face any personal consequences from their stupidity. The honest working citizens are the ones who take it in the shorts, and they are the ones who have no recourse - best case scenario would be to decorate the lampposts with the council members who voted the fat pensions and cut off all payments for the parasties - work or starve. Never happen of course, the JBTs are there to protect the government not the citizens.
I like Steyn’s work. Most of the time, his stuff is brilliant. But how do you write a story on the downfall of Detroit without ever once mentioning the, um, 800-pound gorilla in the room?
Let China buy Detroit. They will be buying low.