Why hasn't Detroit ever owned up to its urban planning blunders?

[ghettopalmetto]

Bailey, you ever hear of a self-fulfilling prophecy? Bo said it the best, "What the mind can believe, the body can achieve, and those who stay will be champions."

Unfortunately, it seems that Detroit's biggest export of late is Excuses. So much for that blue collar work ethic, huh?

I guess I'm just curious to know how, if Detroit is completely irrelevant, how you propose to pay for the utilities and roadways in Detroit. How you propose to integrate 800,000+ people into the economy, when a third of them do not have adequate transportation. How you intend to have clean water to drink. How you intend to achieve any sort of critical density necessary for conducting business--density that East Coast cities have in spades over suburban Detroit's entertainment-oriented "downtowns".