Originally Posted by
EastsideAl
I'm trying to figure out where there hasn't been "negative reinforcement". No streetlights, parks unmaintained and grown over, streets full of unfilled potholes, a broken water and sewerage system that needed to be partially given away in order to save it, limited snow removal, super slow police, fire, and EMS response, and calls to city agencies that go unanswered. To say nothing of the loss of our democratic rights, or of the people who worked and paid in good faith most of their adult lives who will now see cuts in their pension and health care, with many even having to pay back part of their retirement savings.
It all seems pretty damn negative to me.
With this talk of imposing yet more "negative reinforcement" on the citizenry an already heavily impoverished city, I have to wonder where the "negative reinforcement" is for our state. Lest we forget, a factor in tipping Detroit into bankruptcy was the state reneging on its revenue sharing for decreased taxation deal. Costing us hundreds of millions of dollars. And not letting the tax rate go back to where it was before, depriving us of many millions more.
To compound this, rather than just paying us the damn money they still owed, the state got to worm its way out of screwing us over by sending down the EM to "manage" us immediately into bankruptcy. Meaning that they got to essentially fold their own non-payment into the bankruptcy proceeding and wiggle free. Which is one reason why not everyone here feels like Lansing has our backs in all this. However, this is all just "water under the bridge" now I guess, and should be forgotten in the neat settlement of the bankruptcy.
Which it would be until assholes like Finley [[and apparently some posters here) poke their head up to tell us that we haven't suffered enough, or been "negatively reinforced" enough, to satisfy them. I guess if he was our massa [[rather than Mr. Orr) he'd make sure that ol' whipping post would be getting more use...