Sunday, March 26, 2006

Export Detroit to the rest of the state?


The High Price of Detroit's Welfare Mentality: "The same welfare state mentality was leading to an even bigger calamity in the public sector. Detroit, remember, was going to be the 'Model City' of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the shining example of what the 'fairness' of the welfare state can produce. Billions of dollars later, Detroit instead has become the model of everything that can go wrong when you hook people on the idea of something for nothing - a once-middle class city of nearly 2 million that is now a poverty-stricken city of less than 900,000

Check out the reverse graph. Up equals down in Detroit. Awful!

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