“Throw the bums out”
I’m not sure who was the original person who said the above quote, but I seem to think it or something similar when ever I catch the news lately. Seems there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think to myself that Detroit needs some serious clean-up. In case you haven’t been keeping score:
- Mayor Kwame is still in the midst of scandal over an affair and subsequent wrongful discharge of police officers and waste of taxpayer money to cover up said affair.
- The FBI is busy getting to the bottom of a “sludge contract” deal that is implicating several City Council members, several mayoral staff, a local anchorwoman, and God-Knows-Who-Else because of impropriety.
- Detroit Public Schools are experiencing a $400 million dollar shortfall, which will result in layoffs in order to compensate.
- Detroit tried to sell off the Detroit / Windsor tunnel (but thankfully Windsor is backing out of the deal because they don’t trust a scandal-ridden Detroit)
And that’s just the stories from the past few months.
Detroit deserves to be a thriving metropolis, but instead we get idiots who are motivated by self-interest rather than building up Detroit. These leeches need to be burned off, and some serious soul-searching needs to happen on the part of Detroiters.
This is bullshit, and it needs to stop here and now.
This is why I find myself repeatedly explaining that we moved back to Michigan to be close to family, friends, Ann Arbor, and Royal Oak—and that Detroit is avoided at best. Really wish it weren’t that way, but it seems like the place is run by brain damaged middle schoolers.