Detroiters Deserve Bankruptcy

The whole situation is a mess. Detroit has become the largest city to declare bankruptcy, and outside of actually trying to set a better course, everything is wrong about it. People voting for people whom they expect to be given everything, that's wrong. Politicians buying off unions with money rather than standing up to them, that's wrong. Retirees looking at losing significant parts of their pensions, that's wrong. All the urban blight within the city limits, caused, not by so many people fleeing to the suburbs as by their flight caused by inept and downright hateful political leaders, that's wrong. Citizens, the ones who took their vote seriously anyway but stood by Detroit now faced with what is at least a momentarily bleaker situation, that's wrong. Big spending Democrats who ran the city for years without regard for the future as though Lansing or Washington held moral imperatives to bail Detroit out eventually, that's wrong. Some folks are getting a necessary comeuppance, to be sure, but this whole thing is wrong. And it really all began with the voters, the people of Detroit themselves. At least, that is, the unthinking ones who voted this disease upon themselves. What's sad is, they won't learn. And that's the real wrong above all the others. The second Detroiters get a chance to govern themselves again, it will happen all over again. All of it. Make these words.