One way to insure that pay/benefit cuts happen and unions are thwarted is to keep deficits high and keep reform to a minimum. Robert Bobb knew this and that's why he could Not improve DPS; he had to keep chaos going to derail DPS in an effort to move to a capitalist system [[for profit) which is the Charter School system. Mayor Bing is doing the same with the city.

Has anyone noticed that City Council's proposals are "draconian maximas" in the sense that they know that if they don't trump/surpass Bing's proposals that they will be out of a job when Detroit is taken over by an EFM.

From The Detroit Citizen newspaper [[Sun, Nov, 27, 2011):

To avoid an EM, City Council also proposed, Nov. 21, eliminating subsidies to the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the Detroit Zoo, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, Eastern Market and Detroit Public School; outsourcing the Detroit Department of Transportation; increasing taxes on residents and nonresidents, sharing health department services; and getting the $15 million owed to the city on an electric bill from the cash-strapped Detroit Public Schools, which is currently under emergency management with a growing deficit of over $350 million.

Ummmm...am I having a brain fart or was it these institutions that council members fought tooth and nail to save just a couple years ago?

Now that councils job is on the line, everything they ever fought for is thrown under the bus to save THEIR JOBS!