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I have been writing about Detroit
It appears that Michigan
governor Rick Snyder called Bing to tell him that the state would have to take
over Detroit
Bing called a news conference at 5PM and flanked by union
leaders, council members, department heads and church leaders, he announced
that hell no, we can fix the city by ourselves and will not allow the state to
take over OUR CITY!!!
You can take what Bing did a number of ways. One could be a
ploy to finally get city unions to agree to a drastic plan of concessions and
layoffs which up to now, they did not or is this a political move to brand
himself as the savior of the city and get re-elected easily or is it both.
One troubling aspect of his action was that it seemed he was
playing the race card which is standard for Detroit
Playing the race card is a very unfortunate move by Bing
because he is aligning himself with previous mayors of Detroit
Others may argue that this is a shrewd move by the mayor
threatening the city with outside control if unions don’t cooperate while
polishing his image as the black savior of the city.
The city is in the mess it is because of years of
incompetence and corruption and therefore can only point a finger at itself as
the cause.
I really think that the writing is on the wall for Detroit and the sooner the state takes over, the sooner Detroit
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