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.
It's like a hard-core alcoholic, or a glue-sniffer. There's really not much else you can do.
“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.”
Except that Detroit - as Steyn points out - is a microcosm of Progressive, Liberal-Democrat, Socialist controlled America. And in America, despite our desire to be free from such parasites, we are getting the government they deserve, too.
In the Detroit-area, people fear that the suburbs will die without a vibrant, vital Detroit. The truth is, the suburbs have been pulling Detroit’s weight and propping it up for decades. Detroit’s suburbs have been doing fine without a major city for years. They will continue to do just fine without Detroit.
The population center of the Detroit metro area stopped being in Detroit a long time ago. Last I heard, it was in Southfield, although Southfield is starting to show some of the same idiocy in its local politics that Detroit showed at the beginning of its demise. Some people just never learn.
The reason we need to talk about Detroit is this is happening to other liberal cities. Corruption and graft have consequences...