Matter of fact, the only thing Trevor Loudon failed to include in his accurate research on Coleman Young, is not also naming the man in the last picture, last one standing on the right, as a Communist.  That is then Councilman Levin.  Which, a now Senator Levin is still loyal to his fellow comrades in Detroit to this day.  Somehow Carl is able to ignore "bringing home some bacon".

To come full circle on this whole bankruptcy matter, it is a rather enjoyable bit of schadenfreude for this Conservative, in now getting to watch the young protégé from Ann Arbor get stuck holding the bag for his Progressive mentor.

Now, to invoke the Eleventh Commandment, which was truly designed to place boundaries on treacherous Liberals/Progressives within the Republican Party, I'm rather confident that the man who brought down the Soviet Union, and was referred to as "Pruneface" by Hizzonor is also looking upon another failure of Socialism in one of the Progressives "model cities" that is Detroit, with a great, big, ginormous smile on his face.

Rick Michigander, you should've chosen a better mentor.

Vista? Magnum Oil, anyone?

So was the opulence in which elected officials had grown accustomed to living in over the years. Pay to play from Young to Kilpatrick. Remember Ken Weiner? And who could forget the Lincoln Navigator kerfuffle? Detroit PD being assigned as personal body guards for council and hizhonor the mayor himself, while crime shot up exponentially in the rest of the city?

So was the size of city government?

Aside from the Detroit PD when did city government ever downsize to reflect a decreased population?

So were was passed for public schools?

That whole bussing flap aside, if I were to jump in the DMC-12 and go back 40 years and announce to the locals that I would be imposing a locally ran educational system that would practically guarantee the failure of students entering into it and foster government dependency of those "graduating" from it, the race hustlers would initiate another riot and burn the rest of the city (at that time), to the ground.

What future could you possible have, if the next generation (and the one following that), cannot contribute to it?

Was bankruptcy avoidable?

Absolutely!!!

Sadly, Detroit failed on purpose.

Where we go from here is most important.

Do we let those responsible for making poor decision off of the hook for their incompetence and ineptitude?