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Tag: Fountains

Fluff

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Tue Aug 20, 2013 at 02:42:42 PM EST
Tags: Michigan, Detroit, Personal Responsibility, Money, Bankruptcy, Water Features, Fountains (all tags)

The futile exercise of responsible governance in today's America requires no further example than Detroit.

Detroit, the once beautiful jewel of Michigan, tortured with decades of progressivism, Cronyism, and corruption, just cannot stop failing. Somehow, in the midst of a bankruptcy, preceded by the spending of 15 or so billion dollars as yet unearned, and the jail sentences of ONLY a few of the officials responsible, the city still must do stupid things, like build water play fountains it cannot afford.

Or make work. From Fox2:

"They served up free ice cold bottled water and delicious grilled hot dogs. The T-shirts looked good reading "Palmer Park Splash Park" and the ribbon cutting went well. Just one little glitch at the new park, there was no water! A water main break dried up the splash park for its grand opening!
"We had a mishap with a water main that broke," explained Detroit Mayor Dave Bing. "We have a water system that's 100 years old so those things happen."

So maybe, just maybe, the money spent on the splash park could have been spent towards that 100 year old water system first?

Continued below the fold.

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