Posted on 07/20/2013 12:46:04 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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But while Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has capably overseen Detroits march to Chapter 9, neither the state nor the federal government has evinced any inclination to provide meaningful financial assistance.
Thats a mistake. No one likes bailouts or the prospect of rewarding Detroits historic fiscal mismanagement. But apart from voting in elections, the 700,000 remaining residents of the Motor City are no more responsible for Detroits problems than were the victims of Hurricane Sandy for theirs, and eventually Congress decided to help them.
America is just as much about aiding those less fortunate as it is about personal responsibility. Government does this in so many ways; why shouldnt it help Detroit rebuild itself?
Many call for scaling back the city to fit realistic population projections. While logical, the potential for downsizing Detroit is limited because the citys population didnt flee from just one neighborhood; the departures were scattered, requiring Detroit to deliver services across a geographic area the size of Philadelphia, with less than half the population. Further cuts will surely come, but in some key areas, like public safety and blight removal, Detroit needs to spend more, not less.
That necessitates large-scale reductions in its liabilities, which total as much as $18 billion. By comparison, the countrys second largest municipal bankruptcy that of Jefferson County, Ala., which is slightly smaller than Detroit in population involves $4 billion of liabilities.
Detroit faces greater challenges than the automakers because the structure of its obligations is quite different from those of General Motors and Chrysler.
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Darwinism is irrelevant in this context.
It is nature's way of strengthening the population by rewarding the most successful.
Which is why we are knee-deep in gays, abortions, alcoholism, crime, obama, communists, democrats, muslim, and a million other things that shouldn't exist if Darwinism were true.
By rewarding the corruption and recklessness of cities like Detroit at he expense of prudent cities, you take away the incentive for cities to live within their means.
These are not random hereditary variations are they? Does Detroit pass them down to its offspring? I thought people in this thread generally agreed that Detroit's problems are not random unplanned acts of nature. Also, I can't see how they are hereditary, since cities do not have genes or chromosomes. Nor do they mate and have descendants.
To add insult to injury, they want to reward the criminals with the tax money they steal from the law-abiding producers. But that has ever been the MO of the race industry and one or their main articles of faith, wealth redistribution from whites to blacks.
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