An excellent series of articles on former NBA great Dave Bing, now Detroit Mayor, as he struggles to remake the dying city. His battle with spoiled and stubborn public-employee unions demonstrates the insanity and corruption that exists everywhere. It's an epidemic of budget-busting promises to public employees and lavish pensions at taxpayers' expense. Time to bust contracts.
Detroit mayor Dave Bing says the city plans to encourage residents to move from some neighborhoods:
- "If they stay where they are I absolutely cannot give them all the services they require."
- "Either they can't read, they can't add or they can't comprehend," Bing said at a press conference this morning in his office at City Hall. "It has to be one of the three.
- "Everyone is running with a deficit in their budgets. It's leadership or a lack of leadership that has got us to where we are."
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Bing on unions: 'Either they can't read, they can't add or they can't comprehend'
Detroit Mayor Bing emphasizes need to shrink city
Bing battles a culture of entitlement