Any impression that Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder is anything more than a weak corporate hack have been completely put to rest with the actions of Kevyn Orr, the Emergency Manager he appointed to oversee the city of Detroit's fiscal mess. Seems Orr, after threatening to sell off the Detroit Institute of the Arts artworks (the last thing that needs to be done is give people one less reason to go to Detroit--sports teams and gambling are about the only reason most folks go to the city as is), is threatening to take the city into bankruptcy.
And why would he do that? Wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that it will allow him to do an end around on the city's public unions, who otherwise would have to approve the cuts to their pensions (which were promised and earned), and at the same time, pay back the financial firms that stand to lose billions because, basically, they made a bad bet on the city turning itself around, now would it?
How much longer do these people think we're going to watch our government fork over our money to banks and financial firms while they take even more of ours away before all hell breaks loose?
Detroit, with its proud history of standing up for the working rights of America's poor and middle class, would be a fine place to start unleashing the hounds of hell.
Peace,
emaycee
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