Mitch Albom: Broke Or Not, We Carry On In Detroit
Dear America,
Yeah, we’re broke.
But we got up this morning.
Yeah, we’re broke.
But we woke the kids. We went to church.
Yeah, we’re broke.
But we ate breakfast. We cleaned the plates. We called friends. We lit the grill.
Yeah, we’re broke.
But we carry on.
Yeah, we’re broke. But we saw it coming. We’ve had an outsider in charge for the last four months. His background is bankruptcy. The first word of his job title is “emergency.”
Yeah, we’re broke; we’re not naïve. We know it. We expected it. We watched for years as our leaders mismanaged funds, made patchwork repairs, borrowed and borrowed and didn’t pay back.
Does that sound familiar? Hasn’t our federal government done the same?
--CLIP
t was the perfect storm. We’re built for 2 million. We’re down to 700,000 people. We’re too big for our numbers. We’re too small for our britches.
Yeah, we’re broke. Our city grew on automotive explosiveness and shrunk on economic implosion. Manufacturing died or was sent away. Jobs dried up. So did tax revenue. Our pension funds teetered; when the big recession hit, they fell over. Other cities suffered similar fates. We just took it harder.
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http://www.freep.com/article/20130721/COL01/307200055/mitch-albom-detroit-bankruptcy-america-auto-industry
Mitch Albom has a great afternoon radio talk show on the otherwise rightwing hate radio WJR out of Detroit. He is like a breath of fresh air after 11+ straight hours of venom.
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