“Its why I’m glad that Detroit is being treated as a mostly in house matter despite the pain. Now let those states bail out their own cities.”
They can’t; there is no money. Within the past year or so someone posted an article in which a black city council was fighting with white retirees about how their retirement benefits were consuming the current revenues (leaving nothing for current employees or services); here in NJ it is the remaining white taxpayers having that fight with the white retirees. The only solution seems to be white flight from the whole state, and that is exactly what is happening.
At some point the problems have to be fixed. I don’t love the fact that Michigan residents have to carry this burden but it is our burden. I personally take pride in the fact that it isn’t being dumped on taxpayers nationwide. Sure Detroit is getting some federal money but all cities are getting federal money regardless what kind of shape they’re in. The GOP owns this state and we have to fix the problems.
All I ask is for the $250 million required to prepare our side of the Detroit river for the bridge than Canada is paying for. Naturally, that’s what Obama withholds. Detroit is the second busiest freight crossing on the continent and that fact alone should make the city boom. Unfortunately almost all that traffic is bottlenecked across one 90 year old bridge in poor repair and its owned by Detroit’s wealthiest democrat donor and slumlord.
Despite the lips that flap on autopilot here at FR, things are changing in Detroit. The crime rate is falling due to a tough pro gun police chief and an armed citizenry. Tough new election laws and a tough Secretary of state backing them have led to Detroit electing their first white mayor (D) in a half century. Even the black nationalism that sprung forth from Detroit is dying. Private competition with public utilities is legal and growing in Detroit.