Time To Euthanize Detroit?

Time To Euthanize Detroit?
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=710

In the movie “Revenge of the Nerds,” one of
the nerds asked an interesting question: “Would
you rather live in the ascendancy of a
civilization or during its decline?” Alas, those
who remain in Detroit know very well what the later is like.

A Detroit councilwoman has declared that
since Detroit voted for Obama, he is supposed to bail out the city.

Video: http://bit.ly/TPYDhH

Aside from the fact that this is just an
explicit and vocal declaration of how a welfare
state with a large dependent population works,
this is also an example of what happens when you
run out of other people’s money: Decay on the
order not seen since the fall of the Western
Roman Empire. In his “Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire,” Edward Gibbons described what
became of Rome after the Western Empire fell:

“Survey the other hills of the city, the vacant
space is interrupted only by ruins and gardens.
The forum of the Roman people, where they
assembled to enact their laws and elect their
magistrates, is now enclosed for the cultivation
of pot-herbs, or thrown open for the reception of
swine and buffaloes. The public and private
edifices, that were founded for eternity, lie
prostrate, naked, and broken, like the limbs of a
mighty giant; and the ruin is the more visible,
from the stupendous relics that have survived the
injuries of time and fortune.”

The comparison of this description of
post-Empire Rome with Detroit is not hyperbole. If anything, Detroit is worse:

Images of decay and disintegration can be
seen here (http://bit.ly/U1gORK) and here
(http://bit.ly/U1gVwI). For a particularly
striking contrast, compare Hiroshima and Detroit,
both after WWII, and today
(http://bit.ly/U1h1nX); it is enough hope for Detroit to be nuked from orbit…

Things in Detroit have gotten so bad, that
the state of Michigan is considering abolishing
the city as an entity entirely; essentially, this
would be euthanasia their local government.

Perhaps it would have been best if we had
just listened to, and accepted the offer of, Omni-Consumer Products:

Despite the insane and drug-addicted giant
cyborg, it’d still be more peaceful and safe then Detroit is now…

This will not end well…