I think the answer is in the question. It may have to do with how much of the money goes to what instead of something else. The metro is rich, since the auto industry is still a mighty part of the economy, one of the motors that traditionally spurs other development that we now take for granted; like our beloved motorways. Wayne county may be more open to shysters and shifty characters of all sorts, and incompetency because it has become poorer, but it is easy to dismiss the wealth that surrounds it. The large middle class that makes up your metro is having hard time of it, but there is a lot of money around. The problem is not money; it never was, nor will it ever be. If the problem were money; dudes like Hank Ford would never have built the River Rouges of this world.
Detroit aint the only place this happens man, In my city, for every dollar spent on asphalting of streets, there is at least one zloty contributing to someone's cheap liquor and an easy girl.
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