>Detroit’s leaders engaged in a billion-dollar borrowing binge, created new taxes and failed to cut expenses when they needed to. Simultaneously, they gifted workers and retirees with generous bonuses. And under pressure from unions and, sometimes, arbitrators, they failed to cut health care benefits — saddling the city with staggering costs that today threaten the safety and quality of life of people who live here.
That is eerily, if not disturbingly, parallel to our national problems. Though, hopefully, we have a bit more time to fix the national problems.
That is eerily, if not disturbingly, parallel to our national problems. Though, hopefully, we have a bit more time to fix the national problems.