LeDuff: Answers, accountability lacking as more bodies fall in Detroit

[corktownyuppie]

You make services so poor in the neighborhoods one deems too far gone to save [[which are most of them) that even the remaining hardcore residents will also get fed up and leave just to escape the suffering. Once those remaining residents leave, you can officially remove those places from the grid and close them off without fearing lawsuits from them

Assuming that's true, my only issue is the implication that "someone is making services so poor" by choice. Services are poor because there is no money. And so that begs a dialogue of whether we are spending the money we do have in an effective way.

People have been saying for years that turning the city around is like amputating the leg of diabetic. You are going to have cut off parts of the city in order to save the rest.

[313WX]

Assuming that's true, my only issue is the implication that "someone is making services so poor" by choice. Services are poor because there is no money. And so that begs a dialogue of whether we are spending the money we do have in an effective way.

Well, it depends on whether or not there's a better way to resolve the city's finances besides MORE cuts to the already poor services, even if the solutions aren't politically popular.

[corktownyuppie]

Well, it depends on whether or not there's a better way to resolve the city's finances besides MORE cuts to the already poor services, even if the solutions aren't politically popular.

You'll get no beef from me here. I've always thought that the solutions are much easier to find than navigating the political minefield of trying to execute them.