Here is yet another example of the lunacy that pervades our universities especially in regard to the post-colonial philosophy that reigns supreme. This is WSU professor Thomas Pedroni talking about the problems in the Detroit schools.
http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4810
Since Wayne State is located in Detroit, Pedroni should know better. Who runs the city of Detroit, Democrats or Republicans? I don't know anything negative about the current mayor, Dave Bing, but I know a lot about the previous mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, whose administration was riddled with corruption. He wound up going to prison, as did another another high-ranking city official, Monica Conyers, the wife of Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). She was convicted a couple of years back for corruption and sentenced to 3 years in prison. And who was the governor of Michigan until a few years ago as things were crumbling? Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, who ran that state financially into the ground.
But when you get Democratic politicians together with union types and academics like Pedroni, this is what you get. Schools in Detroit in a mess? Why not look at corrupt city government? Why not look at the community in general? No, better to blame it on those white, colonial, greedy Republicans.
better to blame it on those white, colonial, greedy Republicans.
ReplyDeleteWell, they did have quite a lot to do with it. Not to mention, they made Kilpatrick look good by comparison.
The real problem with Detroit is that it grew up around industrial production that isn't there any more, and the city needs to shrink by better than half, turning the other half back into farmland. But it has debts run up by people who have long since moved away, predicated on those people still being around to pay the taxes to pay the debts.
Perhaps everyone who owned property in the city at the time a bond issue was floated should remain liable to pay on it until its paid off.
Or, the liability could attach explicitly to the property, which of course would affect the price the property could sell for, so the seller would pay off their obligation and the buyer would get a price discount based on future liability.
But you and this Wayne State professor want to point fingers at clowns.
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteThanks for "clearing that up".
The clown in this case is that WSU professor.
Yeah, he's one of them. You don't seem to want to look at all the others.
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