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Report: Detroit Could be Broke in One Week, Faces State Takeover

DETROIT (The Blaze/AP) — Detroit could run out of cash in a week if a lawsuit challenging an agreement with the state to fix the city‘s finances isn’t dropped, the city’s new chief financial officer said Friday, raising concerns of a full-fledged takeover by the state.

“If our city runs out of money, there is no bigger crisis that we would have in our city,” Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said Friday morning, adding that his frustration level is “off the charts,” according to the Detroit Free Press.

Finance chief Jack Martin offered his assessment a day after the state treasurer’s office told city officials Detroit is at risk of losing $80 million in revenue sharing because of the lawsuit. He said the city will be broke by June 15. He said the city should be able to make payroll for employees, but it will be operating under a deficit.

Report: Detroit Could be Broke in One WeekDetroit Mayor Dave Bing

Bing, who wants the lawsuit withdrawn, told reporters Friday that the agreement with the state could be violated if the city runs out of money.

“It’s an emergency,” Bing said. “It is a crisis and we’ve been in a crisis for a long time. This just ups the ante more than anything else. And I think, from a leadership standpoint, it’s incumbent upon us as leaders to deal with this expeditiously, which means ASAP.”

Bing planned to meet Friday morning with City Council to discuss the situation, but that meeting was pushed back to Monday.

Detroit Corporation Counsel Krystal Crittendon last week filed a lawsuit with the Court of Claims in Lansing asking that the consent agreement be overturned. The suit claims the state already owes Detroit $224 million in past revenue sharing and that Michigan law prevents the city and state cannot from entering into a consent agreement if one of them owes the other money.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has said the state doesn’t owe Detroit any money. The state wants Bing to compel Crittendon to drop the lawsuit.

However, Council President Charles Pugh said he and other council members are urging Crittendon to “stand her ground.”

As for the warning that the city might be broke next week, Pugh said “We feel like that may be a bit of an exaggeration,” according to the Detroit Free Press.

 Report: Detroit Could be Broke in One WeekVia Detroit Free Press

Bing said in a statement Friday that he has urged Crittendon to withdraw the lawsuit but that the city charter gives her “the independent right to take whatever action she deems reasonable,” including judicial action, if she thinks the charter has been violated.

“It’s unfortunate that as an appointee of the mayor’s office she does not report directly to me with the change of the charter,” Bing said. “She really doesn’t report to anybody.”

Martin said at least $35 million of the $80 million has been withdrawn from the city’s escrow account. A bond sale was approved earlier this year by the City Council with just over $80 million in interim financing backed by state revenue sharing due Detroit.

Report: Detroit Could be Broke in One WeekDetroit City Council 6, 22, 2009 (via tellusdetroit.com)

The bond sale is not part of the consent agreement, Treasury spokesman Caleb Buhs said Thursday, but the city’s failure to meet its obligations to the sale could lead to it losing revenue sharing. Without the millions of dollars from the state, Detroit would find it difficult to meet payroll and other bills. Any further slippage in the city’s already poor financial standing could lead the state to reconsider the effectiveness of the consent agreement.

Bing, the City Council and Gov. Snyder approved the agreement in April that would allow the state’s involvement in correcting an accumulated budget deficit of more than $200 million and billions of dollars in structural debt. In return, Snyder agreed not to hand the city’s finances over to an emergency manager.

Read the full DFP report here.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Comments (194)

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  • GaryInTheMiddle
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:33pm

    Hopefully other dem. run cities wake up before it’s too late.

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    • Mrs. Bowers
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:34pm

      So true!!!

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    • rangerp
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 10:26pm

      Hmmmmm, Detroit.

      A city run by a black democrat mayor, and done so for decades.

      A city that was a model city for LBJ and liberals in their war on poverty

      A city that is basically owned by the unions

      A city that the libs destroyed.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 10:47pm

      They all got in this position… believing in Robin Hood… and not being Educated as to the functioning of Capitalism! Pigs will fly… before there a Cure for Stupidty!

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    • drattastic
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 11:04pm

      Seeing the mayor and the city council tells me all I need to know as to why the city has failed . Go ahead and elect some more DUMBOCRATS you morons. Dumbocrats are great at bankrupting things ,Detroit looks like a 3rd world country.

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    • Chancellor
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 12:55am

      No it happened in Buffalo NY. and it went into State takeover and nothing

      changed. The problem is most of the people living there don’t pay taxes of

      any kind. Those that are left leave the city to get away from the out of reach

      taxes. Same thing happened in Buffalo and the city was under a 5 person panel

      for 3 years and everything was paid for by the state. Now the states broke!

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    • historyguy48
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 6:51am

      Dream on sweet dreamer and head back to your “reality TV”. What needs to be done won‘t be done because it can’t be done without strong leasdership and political will. We do not have either!

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 7:08am

      and when Detroit falls… It’s residents can all stay there and fix it. Don’t bring your failure south, we don’t have room for it and will fight it fiercely.

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    • poorrichard09
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:13am

      Maybe they can get a loan from the IMF like Greece, Spain, etc etc.

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    • old white guy
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:21am

      hmmm. cities going broke, states going broke, federal government going broke. common denominator, african american run administrations????

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:42am

      I hope the state government does not take over Detroit. There are more than enough Democrat African Americans, who play the race card. With a Republican state legislature & governor, some politicians are just waiting for Republicans appoint a committee to straiten out Detroit’s finances so they can scream racism.

      I think the Detroit city council & mayor have to experience vendors not providing services & goods, because the vendors were stiffed by Detroit the last few times or for 2 or 3 months. When the city council & mayor no longer can provide, then maybe just maybe they will wise up. The people will demand fiscally sound government.

      If the citizens do decide to riot, they should remember to not head north west toward Dearboristan, because they will not put up with it. the race card will not work with them.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:28am

      Ohh….you dreamer, you!! There hasn”t been a Dem-run city or state which has been in the black$$, or had anything like a surpluss….ever. Look at our fair country….a great surpluss of uber-debt! We have had a majority of [D.] presidents and everyone except JFK(TAX-CUTS!) has given us the gift of tax-and-spend-and-defficites as far as oureyes can see! we have allowed TheBuilderburgs and G.soros to force their choice-presidents uppon us since LBJ, and fuge our voting with corruption, “just complaints” and NO action!

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    • SELECT
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 3:26pm

      if the financial advisory board members appointed by the mayor, they will be democrats and black. enough said…..?

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 1:42am

      @Walkabout

      Unfortunately, there are plenty of comments in this thread to scream racism.

      The only obvious problem is the mentality of those nominally in charge. The same bad results would occur if everyone in the room was white and if all those white people held the same mentality.

      I can’t tell you how much I wish the racists would find another sweet hangout spot on the internet. I bet the Nazi Worker’s Party website would be thrilled with you guys. Plus, a lot of you guys with union mentalities would be welcome, too!

      You might think about it. I‘m sure it’d be nice if no one criticized you for your repugnant world-views.

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    • ltcwilly
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:21am

      @Drat….You’re giving third world countries a bad name.

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    • Yeah_Buddy
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:54am

      Looking at the council members, I’d say ban Big Gulps!

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:29pm

    what else could you expect with obama- likes- running it. Just give it to the people and fence it in.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 10:01pm

      I say demolish the entire town turn it into farmland. scrap the metal, reuse any useable building materials and just move these folks out of there. many cities need to be repurposed.

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:55am

      I agree …. Detroit has been bringing the rest of the state down … demolish it .. the whole state would be better off.

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    • IMAWAKENOW
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:22am

      I like the idea of buldozing and repurposing but how do you change the mindset of the people there? I know we have plenty of the hand out crowd standing around waiting to take it from me or anyone else that works and pays taxes in my state, we don’t need any more.
      Fire half the people sitting around that table and cut the pay of those that are left. If yoy can‘t pay for it then don’t buy it. It also looks like there is enough work cleaning up that city there should be no one getting a dime of assistance without working for it.

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:32am

      OOOOO, I like it! We fence it in and then send in Snake Plissken to demolish it and air it live on the OWN (Oprah’s network). We’ll call it Escape from Progressivism.

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 2:24pm

      Send them all to live in one of those empty cities in China. Then we can make bets on how long the cities will last before they end up looking like Detroit. It would be a interesting experiment. Hell, I am even up for paying China to let us try it.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:06am

      Racists and Nationalist Progressives. Yuck! How did The Blaze fall so far?

      Do any of you call yourselves Constitutional Conservatives? If you do, you’re wrong:

      “I say demolish the entire town turn it into farmland. scrap the metal, reuse any useable building materials and just move these folks out of there.”

      “I agree …. Detroit has been bringing the rest of the state down … demolish it .. the whole state would be better off.”

      “I like the idea of buldozing and repurposing…”

      “We fence it in and then send in Snake Plissken to demolish it and air it…”

      “Send them all to live in one of those empty cities in China.”

      These are the comments I see on HuffPo and any number of Progressive websites. We can just take all their land and property? None of the human beings in Detroit deserve basic Natural Rights? Is it because they don’t think like you do, or do you just want to feel like you have power over someone else’s life?

      I don’t like the idea of demolishing Detroit. The city is corrupt and decaying, but putting YOUR jackboots on the necks of those people probably isn’t the most free example of a solution. When I think of Detroit and their problems, a lot of solutions come to mind, and not a single one sounds like any of yours. I think you folks hang out on the wrong website.

      Good luck with all your hatred and “final solution” mentalities.

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    • ltcwilly
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:26am

      @Jaycen…..come on, man. If you have spent any time at all on “conservative” sites such as The Blaze, you know that comments come in roughly three categories: Reasoned and intelligent; outright stupid; sarcastic. You have to learn to discern between the three or you’ll go insane….especially here.

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  • Dallasmarine
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:28pm

    When it goes under I’ll make the first bid. 250.000.00 PESOS !

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  • gbfreak
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:25pm

    What???? The poster child city of liberal ideolgy is a failure? Wow…how’d that happen?……lol

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    • sn000zey
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 11:48pm

      The answer to the problem is simple… Just RAISE taxes!!! Its not that there socalist ways dont work. They just need to do a little bit more of it, then everything will be ok.You can ask any liberal democrat. That many people that are smarter than the rest of us cant be wrong.

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    • starman70
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:37am

      Not olny raise taxes so that any working people and business owners are forced to leave but let the city be occupied and run by those who have NEVER worked or paid taxes in their lives. Here you have the finest example of the Democratic Party’s utopia. If the liberal Democrats have their way, every city in America will be in the same fix. The reason, unmitigated spending. Union contracts which are out of sight, politicians making and then keeping promises of utopia with no tax revenues with which to pay for the extravigances and just plain total mismanagement by city officials.

      It’s high time that the voters in any state, facing the takeover of any city like Buffalo or Detroit, vote in govenors like Governor Walker of Wisconsin. Those voters were sick and tired of being run over by unions and mamby pamby Democrat political hacks. CONGRATULATIONS WISCONSIN!!! YOU DID IT!!! Now it is time for the hard working taxpayers and business owners of New York and Michigan and every state which will face the takeover of the any city’s finances and have to bail out any city in their state to follow suit.

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  • YesNdeedie
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:25pm

    And, the very same corrupt, over-their-head, non-qualified type administrations that have run Detroit into the dark abyst over the years are now seated in DC.

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  • semihardrock
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:24pm

    I SAY….Give it to Democrats to PROVE to the world that their ways are correct and will “turn the economy around” using their laws and way of life…..

    OH WAIT…..They already showed the world what they can do…. and Detroit IS the example…..

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  • Magyar
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:23pm

    This disaster is what happens when an entitlement citizenry, unions and democrats all coalesce in one place!

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    • Nod
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:39pm

      You hit the nail on the head!

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    • OklahomaBound
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:43pm

      They need to put a fence up around it, if you let the animals out they’ll just go infect another city and bring that one down too. The worst punishment you can give a liberal is to make them stay and live within their own mess without bailing them out.

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  • possom
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:19pm

    Good bye detroit! HAHAHHAHAHAAHAH

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 12:44am

      That shining city on a hill….What a trash heap!!..Just remember…… “Socialism Rocks!!!

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  • hauschild
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:18pm

    Yet another “Mission Accomplished!” moment for liberals and progressives.

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 7:35am

      Exactly. They would like to do this to all states and have already heavily damaged some of the largest cities in the U.S.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:38am

      …and they will do it to all of the USA to make that socio-eutopia like Nazi-Germany or Mau-China(…). Oooh it just works-out just sooooooooo goooood!!

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  • matinva
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:04pm

    Memo to Democrapheads everywhere:

    If this is what you want for all of America, just keep pushing your thoughtless, empty agenda on the rest of us. Socialism doesn’t work. Get over it!! Unions are the cause of all this. Get over it!! Democrats are losers!! Get over it!! Change your thinking or YOUR town will look just like this….SOON!!

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    • cykonas
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 2:34pm

      @LUKERW
      Do not heap… the failure upon the People… but upon the Leaders who promised Social Benefits
      ___________________________________________________________________________________

      I can’t agree totally with that sentiment. Just like a Ponzi Scheme ala Bernie Madoff; they don’t work unless you have greedy people to fuel them. When someone believes they can make superior returns regardless of market conditions they fuel the success of the Ponzi schemer.

      When greedy people believe that they can make a good living without bustin’ it they fuel the success of socialistic governments.

      The success of the Ponzi Schemer and the Socialist government are short lived and those in charge are at fault. But, I can’t let the greedy people off the hook. It wouldn’t work without them. In the case of Detroit you add greedy and corrupt unions and it has been a foregone conclusion that it would come to this.

      I lived in Detroit from 1955 until 1963, It was a great place. Full employment. Virtually no crime. Then came the entitlement society and the Unions told people that they should make big money whether they worked hard or not, and the governments (the State of Michigan government has a hand in this too) started passing out money as de facto graft when you didn’t work at all! When that happens, this is what you will get. Every single stinking time. I’m still a Tigers fan though!

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  • Forced_Union_Worker
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:00pm

    I live just north of Flint, Michigan, about an hour north of Detroit. I’m old enough to remember when Detroit was truly a great city, a gem of the mid west. Sadly, those days are long gone. The last time I visited Detroit it nearly broke my heart. The city is falling down around the residents. Half the population is gone. The auto jobs that fueled Detroit have left never to return. The schools are some of the worst in the nation, most kids don’t graduate and the ones that do are functional idiots. Yes, the people of Detroit are mostly to blame for this disaster, but that doesn’t limit our responsibility to find a way to help rebuild this once vibrant city.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:19pm

      Looks like Detriot might be Americas first large American city to become a real ghost town. More to follow if the cities are managed by what appears to be knuckleheads who are more concerned about power, titles, how much money they can grab for themselves and care nothing about really fixing anything. Who will the people at that table blame for their mistakes…..let me guess, GWB?

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    • lukerw
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:34pm

      Do not heap… the failure upon the People… but upon the Leaders who promised Social Benefits… and delivered Graft! Michigan is the typical Liberal State… and Detroit a Victim of Ideology!

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:07pm

      And what’s their answer to improve the economy ?
      Build more Casino’s no joking
      How about just hitting Granny over the head after she cash’s her SS check.

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  • bdandsl
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:00pm

    Detroit, one of the wonderful results of unions.

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    • BO_Bill
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:46pm

      Do you really believe that unions are the principle reason for Detroit’s collapse? Most residents don’t work. Despite a $15,000/child school budget, half of the city is illiterate.

      You know, question with boldness, and all that. Even if they call you a name.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:13pm

      Yes unions have a large portion of responsibility everyone works as if they have a union job never taking inititive to get the job done but rather stand there waiting for someone else to do the job for them.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:15pm

      You’ve seen them 10 to 15 road workers standing there watching as 1 man shovels.

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  • LameLiberals
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:00pm

    Everyone around that table is a die hard communist in denial and corrupt politician who ran the city into the ground. FIRE THEM ALL! ! Put Herman Cains and David Webb’s in charge. They will clean it up. Kick the unions out and maybe make the other races who fled Detroit come back.

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  • right
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:58pm

    How long have the dems been running Detroit? How many other cities have they run into the ground?
    Chicago and New Orleans to name 2 more. Thanks guys! Good job. Keep your folks on welfare, keep control of them. Your results SUCK!!

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    • jacques.daspy
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 10:00pm

      New Orleans hopefully, has averted a disaster because of a disaster. Katrina resulted in the exit of many of the majority minority that had run the city for the past thirty five years. The same corruption, that incidentally, accounted for much of the city’s disaster. The federal government has realized that the city is now a minority minority city. They are however, building new “mixed income” housing at $240,000 each in the hopes of luring the minority, or their Title 8 clients back. So far, they only leadership position that the city has reacquired is the top of the national murder rate.

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  • BTC55
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:56pm

    Bulldoze it.

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    • LameLiberals
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:01pm

      They are and ALL TAXPAYERS are paying for it.

      They are bulldozing the empty homes and making it into farmland which of course taxpayers pay for again by paying the farmers who are not really farmers anyway to NOT grow crops. .

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:19pm

      It‘s bad news for other cities though cause the rat’s got to go somewhere.

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  • TulsaYeeHaw
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:53pm

    The Workers Paradise is on display.
    WAY TO GO COMMUNISM!!!

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  • Constructionist
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:52pm

    I think every Keynesian economics class should have a class fieldtrip to Detroit.

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:09pm

      Will we get to feed the animals?

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    • MFHorn3
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:10pm

      It’s a good idea, but I’m pretty sure the Keynesian professor would teach the students that, ” not enough money was spent to stimulate the local economy.” Being a Keynesian means never having to admit you were 100% wrong about economics. Inspite of the economic meltdowns all over the world, you still hear Keynesians saying.” the government needs to borrow and spend more, not enough has been done.” It would be comical if it weren’t so freaking pathetic.

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  • barber2
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:52pm

    Lawsuits..crisis..overspending..in- fighting..anger..accusations…Blame Game…. Yes, Detroit has “ Democrat Party ” written all over it ! Wonder how their Occupy is doing ?

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:49pm

    Check to see if Kurt Russell is free to star in “Escape From Detroit” …cause if they made it one giant prison, I’d go for the wall expense : )

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  • eyestoseeearstohear
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:49pm

    AND, FOLKS….

    THERE YOU HAVE IT…

    THE GREAT WORK OF THE SOCIALIST IN CHIEF!
    PLANS ARE GOING EXACTLY AS HE HAS DESIGNED THEM.

    Detroit – you have YOUR POTUS to thank for the state of your city.
    ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?

    He’s got 49 to go….oh wait…according to him it’s about 56 to go!

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  • nighttrainno9
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:48pm

    Detroit has been broke for years,decades really. When I lived in MI. thirty years
    ago all the tax money paid by people north of town line 46 was poured into the
    rat holes of detroit, flint and pontiac, to no avail I might add. The blacks tore things
    down faster then they could be put up. Southeast MI is a racial mess, the state
    of michigan would be better off to give the deed to that area to canada and see
    if they could do anything with it.

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    • LameLiberals
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:56pm

      I haven’t been back in years and refuse to go back even to visit famly. Michigan is full of left loons and now being overrun by Muslims (have you been to Dearborn?)

      I saw the writing on the wall long ago and left as soon as I graduated from high school.

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    • dirtypotter
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:43pm

      The Canadians might declare war on us for that

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  • NJONY
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:47pm

    Well this is a great example of what Liberalism/Democrats and unions can do to a city. Every city should look at Detroit and run the other way.

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  • marcus_arealius
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:43pm

    Take Detroit to Hard Core Pawn, maybe the family will buy it, for 1 cent on the dollar. The owner Les LOVES Detroit !

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    • Patriot of My America
      Posted on June 12, 2012 at 8:02pm

      Hard core pawn will have all the remaining wealth remaining in Detroit. Think Detroit and also think this mantra. Democrats, demolish Detroit… Now say it over and over and over… That is the new Detroit mantra… As we speak D-9 Cat Bull Dozers are razing entire square city blocks in the Motor City..

      Now repeat after me ” Democrats demolish Detroit. …. …. … … …

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  • barber2
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:42pm

    Shades of Greece ! All of that entitlement spending. All of that Stimulus Spending . Still in a hole ? Now what could possibly be the cause of that ? George Bush ? The Tea Party ? The rich bankers / CEOs / Wall Street ? Just KEEP SPENDING like the Obama / Krugman Lefties keep insisting. Raise that deficit. Blame someone ! Shades of Greece ! Shades of Stupidity.

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  • Warpath18
    Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:40pm

    But the real question is, would Michigan take it? Or would they try to trade it to Canada? Hmmmm….

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:29pm

      As a resident I prefer the Canadian route if you look at Michigan it is a logistical nightmare for trade routes the best hope would be make it the countries largest prison.

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