If you want to
see America’s future, look to Detroit. Detroit’s unhappy state of affairs
presents a microcosmic view of where America is headed. The liberal media, when
it covers the Detroit debacle at all, views the situation as a financial
disaster, one that could have been prevented and can still be solved by more
government spending. However, an objective observer of Detroit’s current
condition will reject the more-government-spending solution out of hand. Trying
to solve Detroit’s problems by spending more federal dollars would be akin to
trying to fill a bottomless pit by throwing dollar bills down it.
Yes, Detroit has
financial problems, big ones. But these financial problems are just symptoms of
a much larger problem. Detroit is financially bankrupt because it is morally
bankrupt. Corrupt and city officials—all Democrats—have driven the city into
financial and moral bankruptcy. Here is what John Stossel has to say about
Detroit’s problems: “All of Detroit’s mayors since 1962 were Democrats who were
eager to micromanage. And spend. Detroit has the only utility tax in Michigan,
and its income tax is the third-highest of any big city in America (only Philadelphia
and Louisville take more, and they aren’t doing great either)…Detroit in 2011
had around twice as many municipal employees per capita as cities with
comparable populations.” Read more at
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