Image via WikipediaWhen you think you have heard about everything bad about Detroiters abusing their city, you get a fresh example of the culture of incompetence and corruption.
Now the same department has been implicated in a scheme where gift cards were issued using Federal Community Services Block Grants for anti-poverty programs. These gift cards did not go to the poor but to department employees and their friends, imagined and real, for purchases of refrigerators, washers and dryers and other appliances.
This is the same department that did not open “warming centers” in the winter until the end of February due to lack of funds…can you believe this.
My problem is that the mayor (the good guy Bing) had no clue this was going on until the local paper exposed the scheme and now the federal government is investigating.
I mentioned some time ago that Mayor Bing needs to look at every department in the city to see what other shenanigans are going on. Years ago I said that this culture of incompetence and corruption is so ingrained in the very fabric of the city that all city employees should be suspect.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was in town denouncing the new powers of the emergency manager to end union contracts and fire elected officials as taking away the power of the people to elect who they want to serve them…well…I say to hell with the people…look at the mess they have made and allowed to continue for so many years.
I have to believe that many people are aware of the incompetence and corruption going on in city government and other city institutions and they accept it as normal and are probably jealous they can’t get in on the action. I can only hope that a majority of Detroit
Mayor Bing needs to take control of his city and put all employees on notice that everything they do will be scrutinized and all wrong doing will be punished to the full extent of the law and back that up by appointing an auditor with a badge to put the fear of god into those that defile their city.
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