mlwashington:It is fair that there are thousands of children in the city who are hungry? Report something that really needs changing. The mayor has made many poor decisions. So have we all! Forgiveness is the key to healing a very ailing city. Start reporting how to heal. Stop helpimg to air the cities dirty laundry all over the country. This should only involve the City of Detroit's residents. We tax payers have been paying for every former mayor's indiscresions since the 1960"s.
How ignorant are you MLWashington? Never mind... your above post says it all. I would have to say you are delusional to think that the City of Detroit is self sustaining. All of the restaurants in Detroit, The Fox, the Opera House, The Red Wings, The Lions and the Tigers... do you think that the people that are buying the season tickets, and parking their cars are predominantly DETROITERS??? Per capita... Detroit receives the greatest amount of welfare dollars in the State of Michigan. Detroit also receives the greatest amount of Federal Food Stamps. Then there is Medicaid... again Detroit, is the BIG recipient.
The State funding for the Detroit Public Schools... The State Funding for everything else Detroit needs... all come from ALL the residents that have jobs and pay taxes. Oh wait... Detroit does generate revenue from the payroll taxes that it charges to people that work in the city of Detroit but that don't live int he city. By the way...72% of the people that work in the "renewed" Downtown area of Detroit, don't live in the City.
Exactly where do you think the money comes from for the operation of Detroit? Do you think that people are paying taxes on the abandoned, burned out homes? Any business that has come to Detroit has done so because KK gave abatements on taxes... in other words, IT COST THEM NOTHING!!! Do you think the drug dealers pay income tax? Payroll tax? All of those men sitting outside of the party stores... with their "40's" in brown bags... you think they are bank rolling KK's escapades???
How about we let "Detroiter's HAVE Detroit? No more state funding. No more suburbanites coming to Detroit restaurants, or to Joe Louis, Comerica Park, The Fox, The Opera House, or Ford Field. Detroit Public Schools have a graduation rate of something like 21%. Obviously a waste of good money, so no more of that either. We will put a 10ft. electric fence around the city with razor wire (Kwame can take off the tether), and we will leave you all alone. There is much left to sell off... Kwame has sold off most of the city assets, so... you will all have to live on the money that DETROITERS contribute. Good luck with that :)