The Japanese didn’t have to retaliate with a nuclear bomb in the ‘40s. They just had to wait about six or so decades until one of our cities already look like it got hit by one.
That city is Detroit, which “faces $14 billion in long-term debt and an annual deficit of $327 million. Many of its 700,000 residents, which is less than half of its peak population six decades ago, are having trouble paying their taxes amid widespread poverty.”
The ex-mayor is on trial for corruption. The City Council is a lost cause. The murder rate is the highest in the country.
As a result, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has placed the city into the care of the state.
However, not everyone is pleased:
“It’s dictatorship, plain and simple,” said Dennis Knowles, a city commissioner who sat in a darkened, mostly empty City Hall office the other day.
According to “The Blasphemer”:
“Yes, there will be cuts to all the collective bargaining agreements, the Unions will be crushed – firemen and police might be combined… it’s almost a financial martial law, if you will.”
Maybe that’s just what Detroit needs.
If its citizens are incapable of electing a democratic government (small ‘d’) who can manage the city in a reasonably corruption-free way, and it’s dragging down on state resources like a fat chick on a pool float, then the state needs to come in and put its shit back together. It’s long since been an embarrassment and time has not been kind to this former All-American City.
