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GOP Governor Officially Declares Financial Emergency in Detroit

Mar. 1, 2013 3:10pm Becket Adams

Barring rapid improvements to Detroit’s weakening financial condition or a miraculous nosedive-reversing plan from the city’s elected leaders, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will appoint an emergency manager to oversee a metropolitan area once renowned for its manufacturing might.

Snyder declared Detroit was in a financial emergency on Friday and appears all but ready to name an emergency manager pending an appeal from Mayor Dave Bing, saying he has a top candidate picked out for the job:

Detroit would be become the largest city in the United States to have state control over its finances.

“In many respects I describe today as both a sad day … saying there’s a financial emergency in Detroit, but also a day of optimism and promise because it’s time to start moving forward and solving these problems,” Snyder told The Associated Press on Friday ahead of a community forum.

Detroit has a $327 million budget deficit and faces more than $14 billion in long-term debt. It has been making ends meet on a month-to-month basis with the help of bond money held in a state escrow account and has instituted mandatory unpaid days off for many city workers.

Those troubles, along with underfunded city services, such as police and fire departments, and the absence of legitimate turnaround plans from Bing and the City Council forced Snyder’s hand, he said.

“Citizens are not getting the services they deserve and need,” Snyder said during the forum at Wayne State University. “Public safety, lighting, transportation — all those areas need help and it’s time to call all hands on deck and say let’s all work together.”

A March 12 hearing with Bing and the city has been scheduled following the 10-day appeal process. A spokesman for Bing said the mayor would release a statement later Friday.

The mayor said Thursday he has thought since taking office in 2009 that some kind of outside help is needed.

“I’m more interested, instead of fighting Lansing, in working with them,” the first-term mayor said.

Snyder described the person he has in mind to become the emergency manager as an “outstanding” with “strong financial” and “strong legal knowledge.” Snyder declined Friday to release any other details.

Emergency managers have the power under state law to develop financial plans, renegotiate labor contracts, revise and approve budgets to help control spending, sell off city assets not restricted by charter and suspend the salaries of elected officials.

“The role here is to be that supportive partner and to work on projects where we could really make a difference,” Snyder said, adding there is no “big bailout coming” from the state.

Detroit would be the largest city in the United States to come under state oversight, according to James Hohman, assistant director of Fiscal Policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank based in Midland, Mich.

And in Michigan, Detroit would be the sixth city to come under state oversight. Pontiac, Flint, Ecorse, Allen Park, and Benton Harbor already have managers, as do public school districts in Detroit, Highland Park and Muskegon Heights.

A review team first looked into Detroit’s books in December 2011, but stopped short of declaring a financial emergency. A second team began to pore over the city’s finances again this past December and gave Snyder a report on Feb. 19 that said the city’s accumulated deficit as of June 30, 2012, would have topped $900 million if leaders in previous years had not issued bonds.

Snyder’s declaration is the latest in a string of negatives wound tightly around Detroit’s neck in recent years.

The 2010 U.S. Census revealed that Detroit – which at one time was the symbol of American progress and held great political power thanks to the auto industry – had lost a quarter-million people over the previous decade.

An undermanned and underpaid police force sometimes appears overwhelmed by the city’s high violent crime rate, and the number of murders also is on the rise.

Under state law, an emergency manager’s appointment stands for 18 months.

“It took 50 or 60 years to get in this situation, so it doesn’t turnaround overnight,” Snyder told the AP. “I would hope there are more low-hanging fruit things that can be done fairly quickly to start showing there’s a difference going on.”

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 8:13pm
People I WITNESSED a Beautiful Place to Live go down hill so fast I can’t even believe it. I Grew Up on East Grand BLVD. The Houses and Lawns were Amazing. The Trees unmatched, ANYWHERE.
Read This: It is The honest to God Truth. My Detroit Neighborhood was Beautiful. Old guy down the street who painted his house every Year and you could Golf on his lawn Died. Two kids lived in another State. Sold all his belonging and Gave the home to a African American woman with SIX BOYS and No Father. She was picked up every morning in a white van. She was dressed in a Cleaning outfit. She got home late. Peoples houses started getting broken into. People started selling and moving. The Old guys house inside of Six Months had No Grass and Mud ALL OVER the House. In six months you would not have known it was the same house. Then White Folks who stayed because they had Everything in their Beautiful Homes started getting Robbed and Killed. Many more Moved. YOU COULD NOT LIVE IN DETROIT IF YOU WERE WHITE PERIOD. Either you Moved or were a CRIME or Murder Victim. PERIOD! Don’t ever ask me Why I know a Certain Races True Colors. I have seen them and I still see the SAME THING TODAY!

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- sunshineday
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 4:03am
  I live a 1/2 mile from the “notorious 8 mile rd.” (Eastpointe). my parents were born and raised in Detroit. i was born in Detroit. when i was growing up we visited our grandparents every Sunday .. they lived on Nottingham a few blocks from Gross Pointe/Jefferson. the streets were all tree lined,arching in the center. it was beautiful. their home was gorgeous. this was the late 60′s the city was still in a pretty good place. my dad worked at Uniroyal until it closed in ’79. i watch my elderly grandparents , who were the kindest people to everyone, get bullied right out of thier home. i spent the night there and in the morning after my grandma opened the door, eggs were pelted at the screen. eggs were all over the livingroom , on the furniture, the wood floors etc. it was the first time i witnessed violence like that. they finally had enough and sold the house for under 8 grand. less then what they paid for it in the 1950′s. now i wont even go downtown for a sporting event after hearing the two lovely city council women say they dont want whitey in detroit. under white leadership, that city thrived. when the influx of blacks came in, i saw a change that was not for the better. they wanted the city and with Coleman Young at the helm , look what they did with it once they were in charge. Belle Isle is ruined. the great architechtural buildings ,just crumbling. there is simply NO respect for self, others or community. Detroit ,sorry to say ,deserves what happened.they caused
  
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- peaceangel
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:02pm
  My grandparents lived in Tulsa and we visited her adorable little white frame house a million times and I would go out on the street at 10:00 at night to meet friends in the neighborhood and I eventually knew everyone on her street. Before my grandparents died they complained of the same thing. They weren’t racist until blacks and hispanics began to move into their neighborhood and let it get all run down. I thank god they did not see how bad it really got. Two years ago I lived back there for a year, nowhere near where my grandparents lived because that is now the “hood” or ghetto or whatever we are calling it these days. Nobody has a job for miles and the houses and yards look like a war zone and I needed to move 30 miles from that old neighborhood to begin to stay out of the line of fire of all the crimes and debauchery. So sad that any one group of Americans of the 6000 ethnicities in America have been able to change the entire fabric of the land and to steal welfare from the working folks.
  
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- kenboo1
  Posted on March 3, 2013 at 3:42pm
  is kinda like south africa… Its not a black thing, its an entitlement thing.. The same thing happened in Russia (all white) when they took all the farms and made them state property… The farmers voiced their disdain so they were killed… After which, nobody knew how to manage the farms… This lasted till the 1980s… Each farmer was given an acre for their own use. That acre was the most productive…
  
  Much like Africa where properties owned by whites were confiscated and given to blacks who didn’t know how to manage or operate a farm, starvation ensued.
  
  I am afraid America is going the same route. Liberals want to take from the rich and give to the poor, but without a desire to learn and stand on their own feet, the poor only squander what they are given… there are many examples of Black Americans that have achieved more than most whites, but they are held by the black population as uncle toms. Allen West is not looked at favorably by black Americans, but he should be…
  
  Everyone needs to stand on their own, at least that should be their goal, otherwise We Are F-cked (WAF)…
  
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hempstead1944
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:43pm
Endless years of Democrat administrations and union thugs finally killed Detroit. It is not coming back. The folks who are left, half don’t even pay their property taxes but still want services. Why should the other good folks of Michigan save their lacky neighbors?

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The_Fifth_Column
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:41pm
People left your filthy, crime ridden, hell hole of a city because of your policies, taxes, regulations, and Communist tactics you idiot. Good bye Detroit! We don’t need you!. Don’t use my tax dollars to bail this filthy hell hole out.

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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:21pm
In the 50′s when Detroit was a booming place, the surrounding counties ( Wayne and Oakland) were prime pheasant habitat and the population was three times what it is now. Since 2010 , Michigan DNR has had a program called Pheasant Rehabilitation Initative. Joe Biden wants people to buy shotguns. So, I propose the DNR bulldoze 2/3 of Detroit and turn it back to farmlands and wetlands. The Detroit problem goes away, The DNR has a sucessful program and Joe Biden will finally think someone actually listens to what he says.

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- sparkyrules
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:41pm
  Put some fake wings and feathers on Biden out in a field,and I’d pretend I never knew the difference.
  
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- lefty5005
  Posted on March 3, 2013 at 10:41am
  I’m all for it, just don’t tell all the liberals there about it so they can be bulldozed too. A million off the entitlement roles.
  
  I have been all over the world, 40 countries and 6 continents in a 22 year military career. The only race that gets it is white. All the other live in filth, corruption, depression and despair. Even in Asia, except for Japan, they do not respect human rights like America does. You think America is about money, most countries you can get killed for a sandwich. There is no middle class. That is the common denominator among societies that thrive and those that don’t. People say, look at Chile, well Chile is full of white people, many are from German decent. The countries that were not immigrated by whites are s…tholes including Bolivia, Uruguay, Colombia and most of Ecuador. Central America sucks, you have the haves and have nots, very little in between. Africa…well what have all the leaders done for that country. Zimbabwe was a great country until Robert Mugabe nationalized all the farms and run out the whites, now it’s a sh….thole that can’t feed itself. Europeans unchecked Socialism is there demise but it is civilized because it is mostly white. We can say what we want about eastern Europe but they are white, very bright, were the first to put a satellite into space and they thought Socialism/Marxism would work…it didn’t. Think about it but there are more of them than there are Caucasians but fortunately we are evol
  
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AboveMyPayGrade
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:50pm
SPARKYRULES, the plain and simple fact is, given what Detroit (probably even more accurately, its POPULATION) has become, frankly, the only hope to turn around Detroit is the same way that Germany was eventually turned around from the rule of the Nazis and Japan from the rule of its militarists.

The Germans had to suffer the FULL devastation that Naziism brought down upon Germany, and likewise the Japanese from the policies of their militarist leaders, and only then could new societies, purged of these evil influences and with populations that were greatly chastened and in no position or mindset to return to the destructive policies that their former rulers pursued, emerge like a phoenix from the ashes.

So it will have to be with Detroit, indeed with MANY of America’s major cities like Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, St. Louis, and so on: the denizens of these cities haven’t learned the errors of their ways and likely won’t the easy way, so to be quite blunt, they’re going to have to be allowed to experience the utter destruction of their enclaves that the horrible politicians they routinely elect to office will bring upon them (it may well happen in Civil War II), and only THEN will there be a hope of rebuilding these cities again from their ashes, just as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt from THEIR ashes and became far greater in their reincarnations than they were in their prior incarnations.

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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:11pm
  The only way to clean up detroit is to burn it the ground, re-till the soil and start over. Evict all the worthless residents. I don’t see how Snyder can legally do this, as the initiative was defeated in the election. They were going to cancel Detroit’s city charter, which seems tome to have been the right thing to do. Now, they are de facto over-throwing the elected government of Detroit. As bad as the elected officials are, the State is overstepping their authority. Stop sending state funds into the city, revoke their charter and then the people can decide to continue in the same manner or choose a new city government for themselves. the way it is supposed to be done in the land of the free.
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:19pm
  Well,it don’t take all of that old history.Its 2013 now and like I said earlier,good people with conviction can do wonders.Strict is such a great word.And its even even better put it into action.Detroit needs a STRICT Emergency Financial Manager.Obama don’t know jacksh*t about ‘hope and change’. It takes a conservative, non-feeling ,tough, no holds barred person to really make a difference in cities like Detroit.Bite the bullet and keep the $change$(surplus)afterwards..
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:23pm
  “all the worthless residents” Thats just great WARMUNGER_AL. Its also a non-starter.
  
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trashcans
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:35pm
i wonder how much this will change the great music we get from the great treasure Detroit.

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- sparkyrules
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:54pm
  That’ll never change.Motown will live forever.
  
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- JimmyP
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:45pm
  You are kidding, right? Hitsville USA is only a memory – It left for LA looooong ago! (Detroit can lay claim to a techno boom now. Groovy beat but hardly music)
  
  I was born and bred in the city IN 1951. I’ve lived in the black community longer that Obama. The riots finally got us out. When we saw the National Guard in formation marching down our street with rifles at the ready, we knew it was time to go.
  
  As kids, we usta say that we lived in a segregated part of town – We were the token whites. The politicians and the players in Detroit only want more handouts – THEN AND NOW! I lived thru the Urban “renewal” days when successful retailers were pushed out to make way for housing developments, parks and municipal buildings that are mostly abandoned. White corporate guilt is the thin thin thread that keeps downtown a semi-comatose oasis in the middle of the hell-hole that was more man-made than any global climate pyramid scheme invented by Al Gore.
  
  Rick, you said in this video the problem in the D is because of the declining population. That’s like saying the guy with a shotgun blast to his gut fired by his momma died because his t-shirt failed to hold his innards intact…
  
  Oh, and btw, do NOT bother to change to union featherbedding. All you gotta do is get more people to move back in…Hey, I know where you can get bunches of just released illegals looking to cut a break…
  
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moreteaplease
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:43pm
http://tinyurl.com/axxbasw

“The immediate reaction of Detroit officials and residents was skepticism about the move, which would strip the elected leadership of the city of much of their power.

City Council President Pro Tem Gary Brown said he was opposed to the move because it, “eliminates the democratically elected leadership in our city.”
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Imagine if this happened at the federal level. I bet Obama can.

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- sparkyrules
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:52pm
  Imagine…lol
  
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- edotddot
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:34pm
  It’s already happened to Italy! This is what unions and the progressive agenda has gotten them. They have such an overwhelming problem and I don’t think most of the citizens of Detroit realize just how bad it is. They need to have welfare/food stamps/government housing recipients work for the city to earn those benefits. The ACLU would never let that be part of a plan.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:35pm
  When will we stop babysitting these people? They’re taking us down.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:41pm
  Re: Jerk
  When the dollar finally collapses. There’s always a Silver Lining!
  
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- peaceangel
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:13pm
  This happened long ago at the Federal Level and it’s called the Federal Reserve Bank, the World Bank, the already legislated New World Order and the NDAA act of 2011 and the Patriot act and the Bilderburgers who run the world already. If you people think an emergency manager is anything but a communist takeover of every single “sustainable city” plan in America then you need to get off of Blaze and do some research. You have to wade threw hundreds of thousands of gov. websites on sustainable cities and emergency management or takeover to get to the truth through the propaganda but this is coming to every city in America eventually. Wake up sheeple. “Operation Thunderdome” is the federal gov. plan to crash the entire economic system overnite and to destroy the US dollar at the same time and all of us are Detroit overnite.
  
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Seagal45
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:38pm
Wow, why don’t they force people to either pay their taxes due or start getting rid of welfare. That city has been a crap hole for a long time and they are just now noticing the problems?

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DZ-015
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:37pm
Just cede Detroit to Canada, problem solved.

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- drs1969
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:42pm
  What the Canadians ever do to us?
  
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- peaceangel
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:19pm
  The Feds have already legislated that—It is called the North American Union and just like the EU it will unite everywhere from the North Pole to South America. South America will join the Australian Union and the plan is to have 7 Unions that will create the New World Order and it is already written and in operation. This is why no president on either side of the aisle has ever closed the border to Mexico or done squat about illegal immigration. The NWO plan which can be easily researched will show you the actual gov. plan for the AU. Soon the borders will be flung open and mass chaos will ensue and that is the PLAN.
  
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hauschild
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:33pm
Another progressive seed sewn years ago that is finally reaping. And, when Michigan won’t or can’t pay, it’s then a federal (our) problem.

Another feather in the cap of the bottom-feeding progressives.

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UsnEODDvr
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:14pm
Does Detroit stand as an example of what all states will eventually look like? I say yes….It’s inevitable just as recovery for a crack head will only happen once they finally reach absolute bottom. And sometimes it never happens…
Let’s check back with Detroit in 1 year….

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AboveMyPayGrade
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:14pm
SPARKYRULES, you replied to my 3:27pm post with, in part; “But Detroit citizens are Michigan citizens.And if nothing else,we all love this State(mostly) and look after our own,regardless of past mistakes.”

I’ve heard that fully 35% of the population of the city of Detroit is on welfare, so when Obama drives this country into bankruptcy and the EBT crowd discovers at that time that their cards have not been replenished of funds and all their OTHER government checks are no longer coming, you’ll find out very quickly just how much the denizens of Detroit love the state of Michigan, all right. In THAT day, many Michiganders WILL be looking after their own, to be sure – their own FAMILIES and NEIGHBORHOODS, where those unfortunate enough to be living in the metro Detroit area are going to have to be locked and loaded and manning their neighborhood watches 24/7 against the hordes from Motown who will be fanning out from the city of Detroit to engage in their OWN version of “wealth redistribution”.

I say, treat Detroit like NYC in the movie Escape From New York: build a big wall around it to keep all from without safe from all those inside the wall and let those inside build whatever society within the walls that pleases them with no outside interference. It will of course be a nightmare existence where life will be nasty, brutish, and for all too many, VERY short – but hey, this is what Detroiters have been VOTING for for years, so let them have the full monty.

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- sparkyrules
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:47pm
  I almost agree and love the Escape from New York comparison.But Snyder and the EFM are Detroits last hope in my opinion.In these days of tight budgets and government stability,it takes good people with strong convictions to get the job done.Snyder is wholely up to the task.Detroit will never be the same.Lets hope.
  
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moreteaplease
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:03pm
“appears all but ready to name an emergency manager”
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Hmmm….Detroit Riot City?

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pap pap
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:51pm
I hope they hire a Conservative manager or else it won’t work. Too many Demorats spoiled the broth.

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- JRook
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:58pm
  Maybe if their lucky Detroit will end up as nice as Flint. That turn around plan has worked well.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:03pm
  What exactly has Snyder being doing for the past 2 years in terms of helping Detroit avoid this state of affairs? Either way at this point he is now on the clock. So let’s see what miracle he can perform for Detroit. A city which represents the worst in terms of impacts of our “free-market” trader agreements which are designed to do nothing more than make it easier for US companies to access and exploit labor in developing countries and avoid reasonable regulations.
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:26pm
  JRook.Huh?
  
  You expect Snyder to turn around/cleanup 50 years of DemocRat policy in 2 years?You gotta be kidding me..
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:27pm
  JCrook loves to see shining cities on flaming hills of crap. It’s the DEMOCRAT way.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:47pm
  @JRook, It can’t be saved. It is a lost cause. Messing with it will just drag the rest of MI down with it, not that the rest of MI is that far behind. It should be left to die on its own. Anything or anyone touching that diseased cesspool will be corrupted and infected with the consequences of leftist policies. Let it die.
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:14pm
  ” It can’t be saved. It is a lost cause. Messing with it will just drag the rest of MI down with it, not that the rest of MI is that far behind. It should be left to die on its own. Anything or anyone touching that diseased cesspool will be corrupted and infected with the consequences of leftist policies. Let it die”
  
  Cavallo.You don’t know Michigan,you don’t live in Michigan and you could gives a rats ass less about Michigan.Nobody up here cares what you think about Michigan,Bucko.
  I’d hate to see what you’d do in a survivor situation.You’d be the first to cry and give up I bet.But we wouldn’t let you take the easy route.
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:17pm
  Sparky-
  I live in Michigan. The only way to cure cancer is to cut it out and radiate the crap out of it. The same with detroit. Revoke it’s city charter, cut off all state funds and let the citizens fix it or burn it.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:48pm
  Re: Sparky
  I personally have never been to MI, but from what I’ve seen move down here, it ain’t that great. I never could rent to them, because of bad credit and had to take one to court for making threats.
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:47pm
Coming to your State, City, real soon! Thanks to the Trio in WashDC.

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Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:44pm
Looks like President Lyndon B. Johnson ‘Great Society – War On Poverty’ is going to end like his war in Vietnam, total defeat.

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- Outlaw_Josey_Wales
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:58pm
  When Detroit goes completely bankrupt and riots in the streets. I wouldn’t be surprised if the fall of Detroit looked similar to the fall of Saigon in Vietnam. The military would have to come in and evacuate city employees with helicopter on the roof of Detroit city hall building.
  
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biohazard23
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:37pm
Detroit is doing so bad I heard Haiti was looking to throw them a benefit…

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:47pm
  BIOHAZARD, Have heard that numerous times before, but funny enough to still get a laugh out of me, LOL!
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:04pm
  Yeah, I’ve recycled it here a couple of times and it still cracks me up, too. :)
  
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denkat56
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:35pm
Tell us something we didn’t already know. The choice is who to blame, the unions, or the local politicians, or even both.

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The-Monk
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:28pm
I’ll bet the new troll BaldingBeagle lives there. LOL

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:47pm
  Hi MONK, Wonder if he already signing of like ETCHIE/PORKY?
  
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AboveMyPayGrade
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:27pm
I am VERY much opposed to Gov. Snyder’s move.

So WHAT if Detroit is in a financial emergency? I doubt the average denizen of, say, Escanaba or Traverse City could care less – unless he or she is a retired Detroit city employee and is worried about the continuance of the monthly city pension check.

Basically, the emergency manager is going to pretty much have to ignore Mayor Bing and the Detroit City Council and all the REST of Detroit’s elected officials: if these people were up to the job of competently managing the city’s finances, an emergency manager would not have needed to be appointed in the first place.

This manager is going to have to make some VERY unpopular decisions – which means that HE will draw all the fire from unhappy Detroiters over the tough choices that are going to leave some left out in the cold, and in the process take the heat off all the elected officials in Detroit who created the mess for their mismanagement.

I say, let Mayor Bing and the City Council have to make the tough and painful decisions over who is allowed to remain on the teat of the city’s rapidly-depleting milk (in this case, cash) supply and who has to be cut off. The people of Detroit VOTED for these boobs, so let THEM have to live with the full monty of the consequences of their votes.

I’d bet that the vast majority of Michiganders outside of the city limits couldn’t care less if this liberal hellhole finally gets put out of its misery once and for all.

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- sparkyrules
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:49pm
  But Detroit citizens are Michigan citizens.And if nothing else,we all love this State(mostly) and look after our own,regardless of past mistakes.I’m damn glad that Snyder is taking the initiative and finally putting the hammer down.Detroit will survive and be a better place EVENTUALLY.Governor Snyder knows business,that’s why we elected him.Maybe he’ll be the one who FINALLY cleans up the failed liberal/Democrat mess called Detroit….and next up..Flint….
  
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- Disgusted_150
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:47pm
  Which is why the UP should come to it’s senses and become part of Wisconsin. Their governor just balanced their budget and got elected twice in two years! They could use the surplus to pay MI to partially fund the process. Sounds like a win win to me…
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:51pm
  No doubt, MI will eventually get bail out funds from DC. Bring on the dollar collapse.
  
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stopprintn
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:27pm
Must be result of the sequester.

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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:25pm
Sixty years of Democrats have run a once great city of 2 million into a bankrupt dump of 700,000, which was just named the worst city in the USA to live in. Could that be a coincidence?

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Cavallo
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:23pm
Just let it die. Don’t bail these poor morons out. Let them sleep in the leftist bed they made. Detroit is an excellent example of the rot, corruption, and crime the Leftist Fascists have in store for the rest of us.

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:21pm
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This is what happens when you let the Free Lunch Slaves run the plantation…..

SVD

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Fubared
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:13pm
Wow. Just using Detroit as a map to the lib/union utopia, how soon until we are all in a Detroit state of affairs?

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- Fubared
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:23pm
  http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/senator-obamas-golf-weekend-tiger-cost-much-341-federal-workers-furloughed_704915.html
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:52pm
  FUBARED, Rush was covering that earlier while I was out and about today. I guess according to Maxine Waters those 170 million would loose their jobs if they took into account those trips the Wookie took.
  
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