New hope and old woes as Detroit exits bankruptcy

Detroit is a perfect example of the impact of unrestrained Progressive governance. Poverty, inequality, and insolvency. Once governing power is returned to those that caused the disaster in the first place, the city will once again start to deteriorate.

Actually, Detroit is a perfect example of what happens to a city when it loses half its population and its biggest industry is decimated.

Actually and actually, Detroit and this article are perfect examples of spin doctoring. Pay big bucks to the consultants to convince us that everything is fine. A little bit of reality slipped in at the end of the article.

**Detroit’s well-deserved reputation for violence hasn’t been curbed.

While the crime rate has dropped, the city still has the highest murder rate and violent crime rate of any city with a population of over 100,000,**

The big problems still remain and they were not caused by the vctims.

With budget cuts reducing the police force to just 2,300 officers, Detroit Police Chief James Craig has suggested the best thing residents can do is buy a gun.

A prescient description of the future of the US. money printing is keeping the bubble inflated for now, but when that stops this is going to be the future for a lot of cities and counties and their residents.....

Fact that it continues to lose people says it all. The positive spin in this piece (a few cafes full, some new building eing built, etc) is just that.