Posted on 07/31/2013 7:54:59 PM PDT by Lorianne
Did the progressive “blue model” of city governance destroy Detroit? And if so, is Detroit’s bankruptcy a deeper concern to progressive cities like Chicago, Oakland, and Santa Fe, which are beginning to teeter under the weight of unsustainable pension liabilities?
To be sure, Detroit’s multi-decade fall into despair, disrepair and ultimate bankruptcy had myriad causes: the shrinking US-owned auto industry, unsustainable pension deals, and city council investments in gee-whiz development deals instead of a focus on basic maintenance and services.
But critics say the failure of the Democratic one-party machine in Detroit to build racial peace, control crime, and boost business, in fact, represents a cautionary tale for more robust but politically similar “blue” cities like Chicago, which took a three-notch credit rating hit at the same moment Detroit leaders announced its Chapter 9 bankruptcy intentions.
“Progressive politicians, wonks, and activists can only blame big corporations and other liberal bogeymen for so long,” writes Walter Russell Mead, in the American Interest magazine. “The truth is that corrupt machine politics in a one-party system devoted to the blue social model wrecked an entire city and thousands of lives beyond repair. The sooner blues come to terms with this reality, the greater chance other cities will have of avoiding Detroit’s fate.”
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Isn’t she still on some home confinement or work release or something?
She is not a free woman, else it would be news.
Both parties are complicit in this scheme. It makes me sick.
Ten, maybe even five years from now America will have total ‘Rat one-party machine government at the national level.
Just think what that will bring.
Did the progressive “blue model” of city governance destroy Detroit?
A little late for that question.. Duuuugh..
Anyone that don’t “know it” is “trippin”..
Decades after achieving "independence", the leaders of Zimbabwe and South Africa are still blaming whitey, too.
Nail . . . hammer . . . head.
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John Conyers is still in congress.
Monica Conyers has been out of prison for at least 6 months. She is working at an independent auto-parts shop on the westside.
John Conyers refuses to die.
Read more: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/former-detroit-councilwoman-monica-conyers-wife-of-congressman-john-conyers-released-from-prison#ixzz2ajDsbxHY
That's plain wrong.
Everyone knows it's all whitey's fault.
Look at what a remarkable job blacks do in Zimbabwe, Johannesburg, Haiti, Uganda, Liberia, Nigeria, Kingston...
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