Jumping straight off the pages of Atlas

Posted by sdesapio 11 years, 9 months ago to Government
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"... 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!?

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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 11 years, 9 months ago
    Why is the city operating a bus line?

    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.
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  • Posted by $ Tap2Golf 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Surreal. Truely. Can you imagine the task ahead of that city. Who will ever be able to execute a viable plan that will begin a new era in Detroit. It is going to take a hell of a leader. This is a real life Man Made Disaster.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "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."

    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.
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Detroit's problems are historically complicated" Mike this a nonsensical statement. The survival of any business, private or public, demands that revenues exceed costs. Cities, counties, states, and the federal government have been violating this basic rule for the past eighty years. And we are now reaping the whirlwind.
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