From the link:
“In most countries,” I said, “no one has to live in a slum. It’s difficult to get out, but it’s possible to get out. Here people get twenty dollars a month and a ration card and that’s it. They’re forced by law to be poor. Exile is the only way out.”
The misery is self-inflicted in Detroit.
I guess that makes it worse...the stupidity of liberalism has no bounds.