Saturday, March 24, 2012
Detroit Nears Bankruptcy | Via Meadia
Detroit highlights failed policies that affect many cities.
Even so, the voters that haven't moved away continue to suffer AND make the mistake of electing the same type of politicians over and over again.
Go figure...
Even so, the voters that haven't moved away continue to suffer AND make the mistake of electing the same type of politicians over and over again.
Go figure...
At the-American-Interest.com blog, Walter Russell Mead writes about it:
"When American cities embraced the high cost, high regulation statist model two generations or so ago, they were often the richest and most dynamic places in the country. Increasingly “progressive” policies, with higher wages for unionized teachers, bigger bureaucracies enforcing tighter regulations, more “planning” by qualified technocrats and more government services and benefits to improve the quality of residents’ lives were supposed to take the American city into a new golden age.
It’s hard to think of many social experiments that have more disastrously failed. Now many of these once flourishing cities are hollowed out shells, while around them suburbs and increasingly exurbs flourish away from the deadening influence of urbanist politics."
