Well stated!

Quote Originally Posted by corktownyuppie View Post
Politicians exploit that emotional and social perspective into making more short-sighted and irrational decisions. Again, not justifiable. But it's what we're working with politically.

So to again, address the original poster's question on why many Detroiters prefer a bankruptcy judge to an EM from Lansing:

- Detroiters are not convinced that we are actually running out of money in any concrete way and will probably not be convinced until the city actually bounces a check.

- Even when/if that point ever happens, there is so much distrust and poison in the water that the city could never work together with the state to solve the problem. The roots of this distrust [[on both sides) are well documented. Their reactions and responses to this distrust [[on both sides) are understandable but also short-sighted.

There's the Gordian Knot.