Detroit planning backruptcy

[Lurker66]

No we shouldnt bail them out.

No Im not surprised. Detroit is like a lot of small steel towns, the industry left.

Unions and corrupt city official might bear a little responcibility, but the problem of dying cities that relied on manufactoring is nothing new. Pittsburg, Allentown, even in Oklahoma, Seminole comes to mind.

 

[ronny]

Detroit once had a population of around 1,800,000. It's now down to around 750,000. A city large enough to house 2,000,000 and a tax base of probably 250,000, plus Chrysler. That just doesn't compute.

 

[inactive]

Would they cede control to the county, lie Boynton and Shamrock did here in OK?

I think they would just become unincorporated Wayne county land. What would change?

 

[ronny]

They would probably be able to renegotiate their union contracts.

 

[Subsonic]

Maybe the unions can bail them out.

 

[dennishoddy]

The last time I was in Detroit, (2004) it was a ghost town in the down town area.
Huge apartment complexes from the carter era sitting vacant for miles down the highways, Neighborhoods abandoned.
It was sad to see a once proud city in the depths of dispair.
It will never come back. Best to doze everything down and make it a national park.

 

[inactive]

The last time I was in Detroit, (2004) it was a ghost town in the down town area.
Huge apartment complexes from the carter era sitting vacant for miles down the highways, Neighborhoods abandoned.
It was sad to see a once proud city in the depths of dispair.
It will never come back. Best to doze everything down and make it a national park.

I was there in 2010 and it was similar. I only flew in there, and had to drive across the state. But I killed some time in Detroit. It's apocalyptic it's so abandoned. The most surreal thing I have ever seen.

The airport was the weirdest. Security had like 2 TSA agents. No wait in line. Maybe one person going through when I walked up. I walked my Southwest terminal up and down and it seemed like there was only dozen people in the entire place. This was maybe 4 in the afternoon on a week day. Should be prime business travel time. Like nothing I had ever seen. No one there for business at all.

 

[tran]

Maybe the unions can bail them out.

This gets my vote!

 

[Billybob]

Should the American taxpayer bail them out?

Is anyone surprised this happened?

Corrupt politicians or unions to blame?

No
No
If the corruption were removed from politics and unions both would be honorable institutions.

 

[tRidiot]

I don't want it, but bet your bottom dollar WITHOUT hesitation we WILL bail out Detroit and CA and NJ and NY and, and and... Until we collapse. Collapse is the plan and the goal and this helps them get there.

This... keep in mind, folks, when the collapse happens, they won't be bound to even show any kind of respect for the Constitution anymore. They will be able to re-write it as a new Socialist Manifesto and remove that pesky Bill of Rights. They'll fix all those things the Founding Fathers didn't foresee, like the need for the .gov to support everyone and control everything. No need for sneaky hidden tactics anymore.