You know, I think, for the most part, we get what we deserve. I think, though, our children and grandchildren are going to get what we really deserve, through our incompetence, apathy, negligence, ignorance.
Consider what Mayor Dave Bing wrote the other day. Tons of people have flooded his office with calls about cutting bus schedules 10%. Buses will still run, every day of the week, all day long--just not as many of them. Yet, the phones at city hall have been ringing off the hook. And, I suppose, rightfully so. But, Hizzoner also noted, the police still wait by unringing phones for tips about crimes throughout the city. On that, crime, people are silent. That, as much as anything, is the problem with Detroit, yet people sit on their thumbs and spin rather than report anything.
A survey done a couple weeks ago showed that almost 40% of Detroit voters would again vote for Kwame and Monica. I have no doubts that Bill Clinton would have been elected again had he not been term-limited (and the stuff that was allowed to proliferate while he was asleep or otherwise engaged continues to amaze me--yet, ask most people, "He was a good President," one who would be re-elected in a heartbeat). Gov Jennie? What did she do to earn another term as gov? Nothing or worse. Yet, she was re-elected in a landslide. How? Now, granted, the the other parties also threw garbage for candidates at us, but.....
I still laugh at people who say "Detroiters get what they deserve." So do we.
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Well, would you rather have cops waiting by phones, just in case, or a few less buses running and maybe some overcrowded buses? Especially in Detroit?
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