Federal Judge to Order a New Management System for the Detroit Water & Sewerage Dept.

[Gistok]

OK.... this entire discussion is turing into a "city" vs. "suburb" rant, with lots of slogans [[and crickets) being used to make points. As a suburbanite who really doesn't care who owns or runs the damn thing, as long as a better job is done, let me ask a few things....

1) why are Detroiters so adamant about holding on to the system... control... understandable... you did start and build it... but at some point its' maintenance has become a nightmare.

2) is selling the system for billions such a bad idea? I mean not to the suburbs, but to a private entity... is that really so horrifiic? Wouldn't you rather sell it on "Detroit's own terms", rather than have it taken away.... or to have an EFM say it's on the auction block?

3) it's not exactly Detroit's ace in the hole on stopping "exurban sprawl". If anything Detroit created a monster that helped sprawlsville.

4) why are so many of you using the fallacy of "false dichotomy" in this discussion? It's not an all or nothing argument... and yet many of you sound just like "JoAnn Watson" in your "we ain't selling our crown jewels"... all the way to L. Brooks Patterson's suburban rants. Is there no middle ground on what is best for Detroit?

5) If this discussion is so polarizing [[as it has become)... then there really is little to help this region... because I see this as a litmus test.

As Ben Franklin once said, either we all hang together, or we all hang separately....30+ years is a long time for federal oversight... as the saying goes.... "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result"....