Originally Posted by
R8RBOB
My opinion:
Detroit is at Def Con 2. We all know that decades of escaping population, government mismanagement, industries relocating and many more reasons have brought Detroit to where we are at today. Snyder's rubber stamp group of Detroiters is just that, a rubber stamp to authorize Governor Snyder to appoint his viceroy to Detroit and the funny thing about this is that Snyder needs no group to do this. This is window dressing because there is a racial component in play here and Snyder does not want to look like Massa returning home kicking the freed slaves out of the main house.
What we as Detroiters should demand is bold ideas not only to free Detroit from its money problems but what direction it can go. Some time ago, Rep Hansen Clarke stated that he introduced a bill that would mandate that the federal government withhold Detroiters fed. income tax for five years and then use that money for Detroit debt issues. Granted we know that the bill will never see the light of day but it was a bold idea. I want to hear "out of the box" ideas because the old line about cut this, cut that can save you a dollar today but what about next week?
Back to the review team......I know that Detroit is in a different class from the other cities that have had EM appointed to run those cities but were those cities afforded the opportunity of having a review team of their citizens to view the books before the state dropped the hammer and inserted the EM? I would imagine that the answer would be no but Detroit being Detroit gets a review team to "gloss" over the number before Snyder announces the new EM for Detroit. I wonder why?