| [NATIONALREVIEW] Two page opinion piece using Detroit as the model for all cities in decline, which it isn't. The valid point the author does make is that the cities' regimes keep acting as though the money was still flowing like it did about the time they started being run by Dem machine politicians. Detroit is well on its way to winking out of existence -- but it's the city council that's to blame. But Chicago's got a different set of problems even though they stem from a similar source. Washington D.C.'s problem with the Marion ("The Bitch Set Me Up!") Barry administration made the place a national laughingstock, but the voters gave him another term as soon as he was out of jail and he's still on the city council. New Orleans' problems during Katrina stemmed a lot more from its corrupt and incompetent city administration than from FEMA or G.W.Bush. |