The result of decades of total Democrat control.
A team led by a state-appointed emergency manager said Friday that Detroit is defaulting on about $2.5 billion in unsecured debt and is asking creditors to take about 10 cents on the dollar of what the city owes them.
Fun facts about Detroit:
- 20 percent of Detroit is on food stamps.
- It's violent crime rate is 5 times the national average and it’s rated as America’s Most Dangerous City.
- 40% of Detroit residents want to leave the city.
- Home prices have fallen 54 percent in the last 3 years.
- Detroit has the highest poverty rate in the nation.
- Detroit voted for Obama by 98 percent, because when you’re already living in a hellhole, your prime motivation is to drag the rest of the country in with you.
- The 40 percent of Detroiters who want to leave have drawn no conclusions about the causes of all their problems.
- 50 years ago, Detroit's population was more than two million.
- 700,000 are left
- The number of people who left Detroit in the last decade is nearly twice those who left New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
- Detroit’s public schools are among the worst in the nation in spite of spending nearly $16,000 per pupil, 60 percent more than Georgia spends.
- Detroit school graduation rate is 32%.
- Test scores are so bad the superintendent of the city’s schools once said they were no better than if the students had simply guessed at the answers.
- Detroit’s per capita tax burden is several times the average for the Michigan cities.
- Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit's last mayor was convicted of 24 federal crimes, including racketeering, extortion and bribery and is going to jail for up to 30 years.
- Detroit is so Democrat that it's mayoral elections have two Democrats running against each other.
- As an interesting sidelight, Kwame Kilpatrick was one of the Mayors Against Guns crowd started by Michael Bloomberg.
The problem is if Detroit completely dissolves, its denizens will move and bring their criminality and welfare-extorting voting patterns to other jurisdictions. Bad as Detroit is, it's probably best to keep it afloat if only to save other communities from its refugees.
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