Media and Detroit

http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/why-motor-city-is-stalled/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/23/detroit-decline-distinctively-capitalist-failure

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/22/charles-krauthammer-takes-on-sally-kohn-detroit-is-not-a-gop-failure-its-been-run-by-the-democrats-for-60-years/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/22/ed-schultz-on-why-detroit-went-bankrupt-the-city-became-a-conservative-utopia/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/19/melissa-harris-perrys-delusional-analysis-of-bankrupt-detroit/

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/267900/print

Detroit maintains 13,000 government workers but has 22,000 government retirees burrowed into the body politic, and their health-care subsidies alone account for nearly $200 million of the city’s budget. Pensions alone already account for a quarter of city spending; in three years, they will account for half.

Pensions and city workers’ health-care subsidies account for $561 per year from every resident of Detroit, which has a very poor population — average monthly income of barely $1,200 before taxes, a fifth of the population in poverty, etc. The official unemployment rate is 30 percent; the real rate is much higher.

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