How Taxpayers Will Bail Out Detroit

Detroit is proposing an effort to offload much of its bloated healthcare costs onto the American taxpayer, using ObamaCare

 On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew ostensibly ruled out a federal government bailout of Detroit following its recent declaration of bankruptcy.  “You know George, Detroit’s economic problems have been a long time in developing…I think when it comes to the questions between Detroit and its creditors, that’s what Detroit is going to have to work out with the creditors,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. Not quite. Detroit is proposing an effort to offload much of its bloated healthcare costs onto the American taxpayer, using ObamaCare as the vehicle for doing so.

“The Affordable Care Act does change the possibilities here dramatically,” said Neil Bomberg, a program director at the National League of Cities. “It offers a very high-quality, potentially very affordable way to get people into health care without the burden falling back onto the city and town.” In reality, the proposal would do nothing more than shift the so-called “burden” of fiscal irresponsibility produced by decades of “city and town” politicians colluding with labor unions onto other cities and towns that had nothing to do with that irresponsibility. As for “affordability,” such a statement is equally nonsensical. More affordability for Detroit, and other progressive sinkholes, equals less affordability for those expected to make up the difference.

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Letter to the Editor by Nancy Murdoch, CCTA Education Chairman, July 26, 2013

Detroit and the Black Community

Detroit, once the seventh largest city in America, has recently filed for bankruptcy.  The statistics of Detroit are frightening:  40% of the traffic lights are broken, only 1/3 of the ambulances work, the police force has been cut by 40%, the murder rate is eleven times higher than New York City, only seven percent of 8^th graders are proficient readers, and 47% of the citizens are functionally illiterate; even though billions were poured into the education system.  Millions have fled leaving urban blight in their wake.  The future of Detroit is dismal.

The black population of American finds itself in similar disarray:  over 70% of black children are born to young, single mothers; high unemployment and poverty; high incarceration rates; rampant drug and alcohol abuse; gang membership; huge numbers on welfare; malaise and hopelessness.  While it may be easy to blame whites and the history of slavery, there comes a point when personal responsibility and other factors need to be examined.

Detroit and the black community have one commonality---50 years of progressive Democrats with destructive and corruptive policies, destroying Detroit and the black family. 

“The War on Poverty” has effectively made the black man irrelevant as government has taken the place of the father in the home.  Because of entitlement rules it has become more beneficial for black men to become sperm donors than fathers.  Male children look in all the wrong places to replace the missing fathers:  gangs and drug dealers are often popular choices.  Statistics overwhelmingly suggests that marriage and family is a better way to prevent poverty and crime.  However, the progressives and the race baiters would not profit from such a scenario.  The race baiters need to constantly pick at the scab of racial tension, and the progressives don’t want to lose the black vote.

The election of a black president did nothing to alleviate the racial conflicts, but has seemed to exacerbate them.  A NBC /Wall Street Journal poll shows a sharp decline in perceived racial harmony since 2010.  The leader of the free world misses the opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions about how we are all Americans, preferring to enflame by throwing gasoline at situations which are divisive.  Granted, these are not confined to racial issues, but to all people who disagree with his agenda.

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.”  It’s probably too late for Detroit, but hopefully not for the black community and the rest of the Nation.

How Democrats and Unions Destroyed Detroit

July 22, 2013

This is what liberals will do to America.

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Light years seem to have passed between Detroit’s June 17, 2013, bankruptcy filing and the warning issued by the city’s newly elected Mayor Coleman Young in his 1974 inaugural address.

“It is time to leave Detroit. Hit Eight Mile Road. And I don’t give a damn if they are black or white, if they wear Superfly suits or blue uniforms with silver badges. Hit the road,” he said.

To the first African-American mayor of a major U.S. city, equating the police with criminals was a way of telling his overwhelmingly black constituency that he understood their concerns about police brutality and civil rights.
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To the city’s white residents, it was a message that he placed those concerns above public safety and civil order. White flight, which began in the late ’60s, accelerated.

In 1970, Detroit’s population was 1.5 million. Forty-four percent was African-American, 54 percent was white. By 1990, the city’s population had fallen to slightly more than 1 million, with African-Americans accounting for 78 percent and whites only 20 percent.

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25 Facts About The Fall Of Detroit That Will Leave You Shaking Your Head

It is so sad to watch one of America’s greatest cities die a horrible death.  Once upon a time, the city of Detroit was a teeming metropolis of 1.8 million people and it had the highest per capita income in the United States.  Now it is a rotting, decaying hellhole of about 700,000 people that the rest of the world makes jokes about.  On Thursday, we learned that the decision had been made for the city of Detroit to formally file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy.  It was going to be the largest municipal bankruptcy in the history of the United States by far, but on Friday it was stopped at least temporarily by an Ingham County judge.  She ruled that Detroit’s bankruptcy filing violates the Michigan Constitution because it would result in reduced pension payments for retired workers.  She also stated that Detroit’s bankruptcy filing was “also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy“, and she ordered that a copy of her judgment be sent to Barack Obama.  How “honoring the president” has anything to do with the bankruptcy of Detroit is a bit of a mystery, but what that judge has done is ensured that there will be months of legal wrangling ahead over Detroit’s money woes.  It will be very interesting to see how all of this plays out.  But one thing is for sure – the city of Detroit is flat broke.  One of the greatest cities in the history of the world is just a shell of its former self.  The following are 25 facts about the fall of Detroit that will leave you shaking your head…

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Foreshadowing: Detroit and the United States

Posted by David DeGerolamo on July 19, 2013 at 9:25am

Foreshadowing or adumbrating is a literary device in which an author gives hints of certain plot developments that will come later in the story.

The news story of the hour is the Detroit bankruptcy. The pundits are pointing fingers and wondering how this could have happened. The consequences of the city's fiscal mismanagement will be decided in court but again, the pundits are giving their opinions on who will pay.

Let's look at this bankruptcy from a different perspective. I believe that the bankruptcy of Detroit is a foreshadowing of the economic collapse for the United States. Not a depression. Not a great depression but a complete economic collapse. Take any of the "causes" for the bankruptcy in Detroit and there is a corresponding cause in the United States' federal government. Even normalizing the statistics based on the scale of the two economies, the United States is in a worse financial condition than Detroit.

Pending a bailout by the federal government, look to Detroit for the future economic state of the country. If you are living on a government pension or are owed money by a governmental agency or department, adjust your finances accordingly. As stated at the beginning of this article, "adumbrating" is another term for foreshadowing. The irony of "a dumb rating" in the case of Detroit and the United States is self-evident.

David DeGerolamo

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