A city run by criminals!

Where is the outrage? Is this what liberals expect from a city run by afro-Americans?
toledoblade.com -: "Little bang, big bucks.
MAD at your own city council? Consider Detroit's and you'll feel a little better. .....Estimates of the city budget deficit are as high as $400 million. The city's population, less than half what it was 50 years ago, is still fleeing at the rate of 1,000 people a month.
But in a stubborn denial of reality, Detroit City Council is asking for a 23 percent budget increase. The nine councilmen say they need that money, bad. Why? They have to pay for increased pensions and health care costs for their own bloated staffs.
'As long as you don't go crazy and do something illegal, you can spend that money as you see fit,' Council President Kenneth Cockrel, Jr., said.
Earlier this year, the council nearly put the Detroit Zoo out of business after one councilwoman, fresh from a bar fight, held up plans to transfer the zoo to a private society. She said she thought General Motors should be asked to pay to support the elephants. The Detroit Zoo doesn't have elephants. (This councilwoman is the wife of Congressman John Conyers)
As calculated by the Detroit News last week, New York's city council costs residents $6.18 a citizen. Chicagoans pay $6.49. Detroit, the nation's poorest big city, has a council that costs every citizen $17.33.
That will go up, of course, after they vote themselves a raise.
The old saying is "you get what you pay for." Detroit should be so lucky.