IS IT TRUE the City of Detroit became the largest city in the United States to legally declare bankruptcy yesterday?…this filing was done at the direction of the Governor of Michigan who gave Detroit over a year to clean its own affairs before sending in an appointed trustee type to see what has to be done including ripping up employee pension contracts and union contracts to get this beleaguered city to a point that it can pay its day to day expenses from revenue?…the second step will of course be to devise a plan on dealing with the massive debt that Detroit has accumulated over the 60 year period of its fall from grace?…it is hard to believe that Detroit was once seen as the center of American innovation much as Silicon Valley is today?…60 years of disastrous public policy lead to a population loss of 65% people, the abandonment of some 40,000 homes, crime ridden streets, the exit of employers that provided middle class jobs, and dozens of public works projects that spent Billions of borrowed dollars to build temples to sport, parks, and even some dog parks?…Detroit even went on a binge and built multiple skateboard parks that are now known for having few users and a drain on an already insufficient maintenance department?
IS IT TRUE Evansville over the last 50 years since its population peaked in 1960 census has been doing the same things that Detroit has been doing?…Evansville being a bit more pragmatic and conservative has not been doing these nonsensical things to the same degree that Detroit has but it has been doing them none the less?…while Detroits population fell by 65% Evansville’s has only fallen by 20%?…the debt per capita in Detroit is much higher than it is in Evansville yet the spending was for the same kinds of things?…it is clear that while Detroit was borrowing and spending like a drunken sailor, Evansville was in the same bar and mimicking that behavior to a lesser degree?…the difference today is that Evansville still has a chance to escape from the death spiral that pushed Detroit into bankruptcy?…we eagerly await the next 10 years when it will be quite clear whether Evansville will adopt policies and principles that will enable our city to escape the death spiral or if our leaders continue to take us down the Detroit path to failure?
IS IT TRUE in a federal court in Indianapolis yesterday United States Circuit Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker looked into the attorney for the City of Evansville and said, “YOU DON’T HAVE ANY POLICY, YOU JUST MAKE IT UP AS YOU GO ALONG?â€â€¦the nature of the proceeding is irrelevant as Judge Barker hit the nail squarely on the head with respect to how Evansville operates?…it took Judge Barker less than a day to figure that out?
IS IT TRUE unions are a key Democratic constituency, and many unions that once supported Obamacare are now screaming for Democrats to reopen the law?…last week, the Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and UNITE-HERE wrote Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) that Obamacare “will destroy the very health and wellbeing of our members along with millions of other hardworking Americans?â€â€¦Obamacare, they wrote, “will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits,†but is already creating “nightmare scenarios†in which “employers have begun to cut workers’ hours,†leaving workers with “less pay while also losing our current health benefits?†…in April, the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers called for “repeal or complete reform†of ObamaCare?…we wonder where these wizards were 4 years ago when they were
supporting every candidate who voted for this monstrosity before reading it?…yet another group of blind followers of President Obama’s 2008 initiatives has awakened a day late an a dollar short to realize the damage caused by reactive legislation?
