This is just too horrible – it cannot be allowed:
More than 20% of Detroit’s 139 square miles could go without key municipal services under a new plan being developed for the city, with as few as seven neighborhoods seen as meriting the city’s full resources.
Those details, outlined by Detroit planning officials this week, offer the clearest picture yet of how Mayor Dave Bing intends to execute what has become his signature program: reconfiguring Detroit to reflect its declining population and fiscal health. Yet the blueprint still leaves large legal and financial questions unresolved…
What this means is no street lights, no garbage collection, no police patrols in 20% of Detroit’s area. This is being pushed because Detroit, utterly bankrupt, simply cannot afford to take care of itself. This is the final end of liberal governance – liberals refusing to give up power, but not at all being concerned about the people living under the government. Such areas of the city, resigned from government control, will become gang land war zones – and that will spill in to adjacent neighborhoods and communities.
It is time to call a halt to this – the city of Detroit has failed; people and government. After all, the people keep electing these clowns. Time to just shut it down, appoint someone to govern and completely rebuild the city. Transform it from a municipality to an un-incorporated territory of the United States, appoint a territorial government and re-do the whole thing.
Once we’ve knocked down the blight, got rid of the bloated government, rebuilt the police, fire and sanitation departments, and assisted businesses by low taxes to revive the local economy, then we can hold new elections for a new city government. I know this is harsh, but I can’t see how relying on the people who killed the city will allow the city to revive.
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