Quote Originally Posted by lilpup View Post
You specify "high taxes, arcane regulations, crime, schools., dilapidated buildings, lack of policing." Guess what - those are ALL city governance issues. Perhaps you would like the state to just take over the entire city like they have the schools? Or would you bitch about that, too, while at the same time decrying the lack of assistance? State taxpayers have poured myriad funds into Detroit without substantial oversight and have seen minimal results. Do you expect everyone to just allow the city government to remain an uncontrolled money pit? When the government gets its act cleaned up - either on its own or via outside assistance or control - the rest will follow much more readily.
Haha. Oh, yes. And all this allows people such as yourself to smugly say that they're all for regionalism; just as soon as Detroit gets it together without their help. Which is a recipe for no regionalism ever. How comfortable this must make you feel.