Originally Posted by
Buy American
I would venture to guess that not everyone took pay cuts in 2008, especially those in administration, the appointees, and friends and family. The bottom line is that cutting wages and health benefit premiums will not solve the problem in Detroit, you and I both know this. Any incentive to pay home taxes [[that will boost Detroit's funds) has all but blown out the broken windows when Wayne County is now offering squatters the option to purchase homes for $500. This is telling the good, taxpaying group that it's okay to skip paying taxes, you'll get a break some where down the line.
I see and hear and remember what it was like to work in Detroit. I know some of the intricate comings and goings of the administration and I know I don't like what I see.
Everyone has done their part to get Detroit solvent, but from 2008 until today, nothing has changed and it's become much worse. You can't expect people who work for Detroit to continue to shoulder the burden of those on the 13th floor of the CAY building and their mismanagement, their thievery, their extortion of others, the criminals who are still handling the financial aspect of Detroit. Detroiters may not have to worry about an EM too much because whatever police department or fire department or EMS Division is left will leave....because when a janitor or a jr. clerk is making as much as a starting police officer, that's a crying shame.
I'm ranting and I'm sorry.