San Bernardino, Calif., has now followed Stockton into bankruptcy.
Harrisburg and Scranton, Pa., and Jefferson County, Ala., home to Birmingham, are already there to welcome them.
Detroit has been taken into receivership by Michigan. A plan under discussion is to level a fourth of the city and reconvert it into the pasture and farmland it used to be a century ago.
On the Web, one may find a pictorial tale of two cities: Hiroshima, a smoking flattened ruin in 1945, now a beautiful gleaming metropolis. And Detroit, forge and furnace of democracy in 1945, today resembling Dresden after Bomber Command paid its visit.
Other American cities are exploring bankruptcy to escape from under the mountain of debt they have amassed or to get out of contracts that an earlier generation of politicians negotiated.
No longer shameful, bankruptcy is now seen as an option for U.S. cities. The crisis of the public sector has come to River City.
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4 comments:
They should just level Detroit, period! It is nothing but the toilet of Michigan. Years ago when Mayor Young had tons of state money he rebuilt the city into something great, BUT, the natives distroyed it, you can't give them nothing nice.
Anyone who refers to public sector jobs as having ever had a time that could be called "salad days" has never worked in the public sector- certainly not as the ditch digger or public works.
Merideth Whitney said 2 years ago this would happen and the liberals laughed at her.
People were promised pensions and so they took the jobs. Now years later they admit they stole the pension fund (or gambled it away to one of their friends) and want us and the retired employees to forgive them.
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