What should be done with Detroit?

gatz, I like your suggestions. It's a Michigan problem. I don't know if the state can guarantee bonds, but if they can, that's the way to go. I think the state should also really ramp up looking to get private investment into renewing the city. You can still have government employees, but the pay and benefit structure will have to change. I am very sorry for those folk who will most likely lose what they were "promised" during their work before retirement, but this is a unique situation requiring some strong change.

Detroit is the victim of over 50 years of corrupt government. This corruption starts in the mayor's office, and extends all the way down throughout the system. The few honest employees that manage to end up in city government often end up being pushed out in favor of their corrupt coworkers.

Also, isn't it illegal to cut pensions? I know that won't make the budget problem any easier, but frankly, it's unfair to ask the workers to take the hit for something the government had screwed up even before they were born.

As for city services, they already do outsource everything. They dissolved Detroit Edison, which was responsible for the lighting in the city. The new company defaulted on some payments, and the bank literally repossessed the city's new light poles - yanked them right out of the ground. Anyone who has driven on the streets or freeways in Detroit has the private works company to thank for the car-destroying potholes that exist. At one point, "The Motor City" had the nation's worst roads. That was despite hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into the city for repairs. Where exactly that money went, no one knows, or even seemed concerned enough to both finding out.

Honestly, at this point it seems the only real solution seems to be to redraw the city borders, and turn the outside areas back into unincorporated zones. If people don't want to move inside of the new city (assuming they can even still call Detroit a "city" anymore") then they'll have to fend for themselves.

Good plan, the taxpayers of Michigan will be happy to back Detroit bonds. Maybe we should also have federal, UN, and international federation of planets backing for the wonderful voters of Detroit.

why don't they throw some money at it and build a university take some money from the Israel budget

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

why should Israel get $8,000,000 a day when they don't need it and US blacks do

Plant cotton ?