Originally Posted by
Detroitnerd
For the average person living in Detroit, that's sort of approaching black humor. This is not out of the goodness of Lansing's heart, you know. They wanted an EM there, and abrogated their revenue-sharing agreement to plunge the city into bankruptcy, even rammed through a law rejected by referendum to get it through with sneaky appropriations so it couldn't be voted on again, then appointed Orr before the law took effect specifically to deprive Detroit of having any choice in what happened next. This isn't a ship being rescued so much as a ship being rammed. The facts bear that out.
But even the average Detroiter who hasn't followed the events closely enough to know that has got to know this: Why the fuck everybody so concerned about me all a sudden? That don't make no sense. They come here wanting something, and it isn't the plight of little old me they care about. Detroiters, who've had a hard go of it for decades, are to believe that suddenly everybody in the state has become an altruistic disciple of Jesus and Mao, ready to lend that helping hand? Hahahaha. Oh, man. That's just ... hahahahaha ... :D