You're all being ridiculous. Bing came in with huge deficits, illogical union contracts, and so many departments that were mismanaged that you cant count them all. You expect him to fix that in 2 and a half years?The $9.2 million lost was from decisions in the human services department made prior to January 31. The head of the department at the time, fired by Bing due to incompetence. The mayor has managed to regionalize cobo, regionalize water, cut costs [[sadly not enough yet) and actually begin to craft a plan to govern our city logically. It;s easy for us or council to just sit on the sidelines and monday morning quarterback what is clearly an incredibly hard job, but the fact is every decision is a lot more complicated than the media or council or the unions make it out to be. I would be supportive of a Dave Bing EFM because the city needs someone with that kind of power. We need to be able to change salaries and benefits or privatize services, but you cannot do that with existing contracts. Dave Bing as an EFM would be a blessing. The council can sit on their high horse and pretend that it would be Armageddon, but that's easy to do when you're not the one making the tough decisions. Mayor Bing has done a fantastic job in these two years, and I hope there are many more to come.