WAKE UP DETROIT!!!!!!

Yet another venting alert!!!! BEWARE!!!!

Good morning Detroit! Let me start out by saying, Nice Job! Nice job at killing an entire city. Back in the 60's you had over 1,000,000 people in the city. Now you have less than 700,000. People have been leaving the city in droves since the early 1990's. With all the corruption in the city and in Wayne county do you really think you can save your city without outside help. To put it bluntly, when you fail, not if, but when you fail it will fall on the rest of the state to bail out the city. NEWS FLASH - Detroit's problems are Detroit's problems, not the rest of the state's.

The most recent story in the news is about the Detroit Water Department. Apparently an independent firm came to evaluate you. You currently have 1,982 employees in 275 different departments. This investigation firm says you can function with 375 employee in 33 departments saving $140 million dollars annually. AND YOU ARE RAISING WATER RATES???????? WHAT????? Trim some of the fat and become operationally functional and self supportive. You have 6 times the employees you need to operate. This is just one more reason that unions should go. Unions are worthless. They had their time and place and are now worthless. Unions were setup to help the workers get equal pay, better working conditions and other things. There is no need for unions. They just enable lazy people and their lazy habits. Yup, I said it!!!! I am by no means calling everyone in a union lazy.

Another story in the news is Belle Isle. Gov. Snyder wants to lease, key word is "lease", it from Detroit for 99 years. Turn it into a state park and charge people to go there. The fees would go towards the maintenance and security of the island. Leasing Belle Isle from Detroit would benefit everyone. Detroit won't lose one of their "jewels", the state would gain a state park for everyone to enjoy, and Detroit would make some annual cash on the lease. It's a win/win right? WRONG!!!! Hands off our island is in protest because they think whitey is taking one of Detroit's jewels. WHAT!!!! Are you kidding me???? The grass is 4 feet tall, the bathrooms are trashed, the toilets don't work, the zoo is closed, the aquarium is closed, that flower house thingy is closed and there is trash everywhere. That's a jewel????? It was, but it certainly isn't anymore. GIVE IT UP ALREADY!!!!!!!

I remember going there as a kid on field trips for school. You could also count on the Grand Prix being there every year. Why would someone like Roger Penske want to bring a high profile race to Detroit if the island is a mess. If Detroiters are so proud of their city, do something about it. I feel really bad for Mayor Bing. City Council needs to go and get real jobs. Charles Puge, you're the biggest joke of them all.

Don't even get me started on the Wayne County Commissioner.

Signed - Angered state taxpayer that doesn't want to support Detroit!!!