[Kenton]

700,000 remaining residents of the Motor City are no more responsible for Detroit’s problems than were the victims of Hurricane Sandy for theirs, and eventually Congress decided to help them.

The residents of Detroit have been more than willing to live off the graft provided by crooked politicians, crooked unions and a totally corrupt public infrastructure. The "makers" left and the ones remaining are the "takers".

"Saving" Detroit is impossible, and people should admit that. Any money given to Detroit would just go into the same bottomless pit as it has for the last 50 years.

Any "city" that cannot sustain itself without money from other people deserves to fail. Pull the plug, demolish the ruins, and return the land to productivity.

I'd suggest growing sugar beets...

[mrsmel]

What would be funny if it wasn't so evil in its intent, is the way blacks continually cry that whites are their “oppressors”, yet they blame these same “oppressors” for white flight (fleeing an area where crime, failing schools, onerous business regulations, and high taxes on the few producers-mostly white-have made the area utterly unlivable for middle class and working class whites). Mayor Coleman Young even explicitly said that whites weren't welcome in Detroit, much as Nagin said about New Orleans. The only possible meaning to gain from this is that blacks want whites to have nothing, but fork over anything they do manage to produce, to blacks. That's just slavery. They're still bitching about slavery which ended after rivers of white blood was spilled to end it, but trying to put whites in this present day in bureaucratic chains.