Quote Originally Posted by Newdetroit View Post
Really? So perhaps we should sell everything in the National Archives to China in order to pay down our debt in the USA. There have been plenty of jobs in the federal sector which have been cut and people fired from the sequestration. So should we sell the Declaration of Independence to be humane to save jobs for these federal sector workers???

The people who donated art to the DIA donated the art with one intent. The intent was to provide art to Metro Detroit and to be part of the cultural fabric of the city. Artwork in a museum shoud not be sold of because of the likes of Coleman Young, Monica Conyers, Kwame Kilpatrick, and all the other people who were incompetent or thieves in Detroit's city government.

The DIA is one of the only cultural anchors of Detroit. It brings in tourists/visitors who in turn spend money in nearby business who in turn pay more city taxes.
Very well stated Newdetroit! Also those same retirees did help to contribute to the problem over time. They are not blameless in this mess.