Jumping straight off the pages of Atlas
"... in Detroit, no one inside the transportation department could direct payments to the most important vendors. A bureaucrat working miles away in City Hall, not responsible to the transportation department (and, frankly, not responsible to anyone we could identify), decided who got paid and who didn't. That meant vendors supplying noncritical items were often paid even as public buses were sidelined."
Seriously!?
Seriously!?
This reads like the "Dummies Guide to Bankruptcy".
Way to many juicy quotes to choose from, so I will just use the closing paragraph:
"The last thing Detroit needs is a bailout. What it needs is to sweep away a city charter that protects only bureaucrats, civil-service rules that straightjacket municipal departments, and obsolete union contracts. A bailout would just keep the dysfunction in place. Time to start over."
The author of the original article is an elected Republican from New York. The guy is an out-of-state politician from an opposition party who took a temporary job with "Disaster" labels all over the front cover.
We love to kick Detroit. Detroit's problems are historically complicated. They did not spring up over night. More on that later, elsewhere.
And your point is?
After over 60 years of the Democrat party calling the shots, it makes sense to bring in someone from the "opposition" side to infuse the opposite approach. He gave up trying in the quagmire he writes about....
There is nothing complicated about confirming that the Democrat party DNA is all over this rotting corpse.