Watching the local news about Detroit
The mayor and the rest of the city leaders desperately wanted to avoid an emergency manager who would have all the power of a dictator to fix the city by hook or by crook so they opted for a “consent decree” which means they will sign a document outlining exactly what the city must do to get itself into financial health.
The difference between an emergency manager and a consent decree is that an emergency manager would be all powerful even to the point of firing elected but incompetent officials and negating any and all union contracts.
What the mayor and the city council thought was that a consent decree would allow them to continue to do what they have been doing all along which is driving the city deeper into financial bedlam and this is why the mayor and the council are labeled as INCOMPETENT TWITS; why would anyone allow the idiots that caused or at least did not fix the problems the city faces, with continuing to keep doing the worthless job they have been doing…how in the hell does that fix anything?
The mayor had the balls to also ask for money in the form of a bridge loan from Michigan
Governor Snyder said how can you ask for more money without a fucking plan to get the city out of the fiscal shithole; just because that has worked in the past does not mean the same morons are in power today and will fall for that crap…Michigan taxpayers have had enough!
Governor Snyder has presented a plan and put it on the table as a starting point in the discussion; the mayor or the council have no plans to propose, just objections.
The plan appoints a 9 member financial board that will carry out the consent agreement but the council will have no say so in this plan except to approve it and of course they don’t like to be told to go sit in the corner and shut up but on the other hand why would anyone with a brain listen to anything they had to say; they had their chance.
The mayor does have the power, under the decree, to nullify union contracts and privatize city services and that in itself does not sit well with the unions who will fight this plan to the bitter end…
BUT here is the point, this is the BITTER END. The city had a lot of time to straighten itself out and it could not because it is incapable due to plain incompetence, corruption and of course, city politics.
So the bitter end is agree to a consent decree and at least have 9 responsible people carrying out the plan or have one emergency manager takeover OR go into bankruptcy where a judge will be the emergency manager…take your choice.
I am really hoping and I do have faith in Governor Snyder because he is a businessman first and a politician second, that he will do the right thing and that he also is cognizant of the Michigan taxpayers and voters that do not live in Detroit but want a strong Detroit but will not put up with the total mismanagement by Detroit leaders anymore…
The bitter end is here…the road ahead is clear…
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