Out of Pod Experience

You know, what is so sad about this.

Like with Greece and Spain, it's the ordinary hardworking folk who are going to suffer. The people who are only interested in earning enough money to look afer their families, pay their way through life, and have a bit left over for treats now and then.

But the people who have brought that fine city to it's knees, rather then being hauled up and made to account for their actions, they will be walking off with their already overfull pockets stuffed with even more money.

Perhaps we should all get our 'Vendetta' masks out, even died in the wool old farts like me, the player behind Max.

*Looks to his front doot, and waits for the people from MI5/CIA to come and kick it down and drag him off*

It is all a joke! The people at the top point fingers at all the moochers errr I mean the helpless at the bottom for taking all our hard earned tax money for welfare..... People at the bottom point to the top where white collar thieves errrr I mean State/Federal officials are allowed to 'forget' to report tens of thousands of $ in gifts.


EDIT: They are in cahoots with each other I tell ya.......... to add a little color to my off color post


EDIT 2: It was inevitable that this was going to happen. Just saw a story that there are probably many versions of, but I husband and wife are both ex Detroit officers who will probably lose their pensions... at least for the foreseeable future.

Detroit also been trying to sell thousands of properties that have been in disrepair for decades. You can literally by acres upon acres of property extremely extremely cheap, but the cost to demolish the buildings, haul out the trash and the lack of a foreseeable opportunity to recover any cash and turn a profit has kept all land tycoons from tossing a penny at the properties

So the voters that listened to the politicians, and voted for the promise of 'free stuff', paid for by stealing money from the productive base of the economy aka taxes, share no fault?

It's easier to blame the greed of a few, than blame the greed of the crowd, why stop pandering to the mob now when it has always worked in the past. The same pandering that created the problem in the first place.

Stop electing people that want power and promise government hand outs.

That's not the problem, as they are already down to skeleton staff.

They need to track down the original perpetrators of the corrupt system that led to this.

But as most of those city officials were in their 40s and 50s in the 1970s and 1980s, most of them are 'not with us any longer'.

Since they are safely in the ground, all Detroit can do is re-structure and move on at this point.

Isn't the whote elephant in the room being ignored? The UAW? I mean European and Japanese cars are an order ofagnitude better than their American counterparts, even ones under Ford and GM ojtside the atatea use different models that go over 30mpg as standard. Volkswagen and Toyota desighn a car, and build it everywhere, Chrysler might end up being the best given they are using more advanced FIAT enginens a d are owned by the italian firm.

End of the day they were selling an inferior product because the UAW didn't have the strategic understanding that they were making so much because the rest of the world was in ruin and the starving German and Japanese populations didn't need to worry about poor Detroiters while they built better, faster and cheaper.

First the auto industry, then the Higgs Boson. Methinks America needs to wake up to the fact that the whole world is capitalist, and free trade works both ways, or it willbe eate for breakfast by leaner morr ambitious nations.

Good point.

No, we are unionised and support a national health service at the same time getting more done with less % of gdp (USA 17% vs 8%). This isn't about the union movement or socialism, this is how the UAW itself has ****** up.

Granted I'm no expert on US government official salaries but what I've picked up on from many a newsposts pasted around the web is that most officials - particularly congress level, but lower as well - are already millionaires. I remembere there coming a ruckus when one official refused to give their salary for whatever charity was relevant at the time (possibly Haiti?) because she wasn't rich unlike just about everyone else working with her.

That said, I think no elected official should earn much more than the average consumer which is what, around 44k a year in the US (median income, I know many earn much less)?