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Showing Original Post only (View all)So Detroit- what went wrong? [View all]
I admit I haven't followed it much, other than to see the usuall mocking of the state of the city over the last decade or so.
How did it get that way? What did it?
I have a few right of center friends I enjoy some lively debate with over beers now and then, and they are big on the "decades of Democrats running the city" and "poster child for what unions do" memes. I am sure they are wrong, but haven't followed this story well enough to know the debate.
So what is the real cause of the problems that led to bankruptcy?
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Kicking the can down the roadism. Pensions, TBTF bank loans, Wall Street fuckery.
Safetykitten
Jul 2013
#2
Quite simply, Detroit and much of what was industrialized Michigan, is a testament...
MrScorpio
Jul 2013
#5
Two full generations from now, the US as it is today and the wreckage of what it once was
Javaman
Jul 2013
#23
The Bethlehem Steel plant at Sparrows Point did not have to be closed. It was closed because
byeya
Jul 2013
#40
The state of Michigan (Governor Snyder) stripped Detroit of all its independent authority and
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jul 2013
#8
Unionized Detroit abandoned by Big 3 for non-unionized locales in the South.
reformist2
Jul 2013
#10
Governor Rick Snyder and Dennis Archer and Kwame Kilpatrick and years of
mstinamotorcity2
Jul 2013
#12
Factories moving to suburbs, school quality, corruption, corruption, corruption
JPZenger
Jul 2013
#17
I think there are a lot of correct answers in this thread that need to be combined.
last1standing
Jul 2013
#18
The state can request that the filing be withdrawn, but it is up to the Federal court to dismiss it.
FarCenter
Jul 2013
#42
and if the state can't pursue the case because it is declared unconstitutional
Motown_Johnny
Jul 2013
#50
Years of nation-wide support by politicians for let's-send-manufacturing-jobs-to-foreign-countries
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#51