"Infantile grandstanding and financial ignorance" among Detroit City Council members remind Detroit News business columnist Daniel Howes of an earlier local crises that made front-page news.
Council members show "the same sense of entitlement that Detroit's auto industry regularly manufactured right up to its collapse four years ago," he writes.
What we are witnessing with each sorry spectacle issuing from City Hall are duly elected representatives walking a once-great American city, its residents and its remaining reputation off a fiscal cliff
Hard to know which is more stunning — the dysfunction of Detroit's political class and their paymasters in the city's unions or the denial embedded in their posturing and public statements.
Where Detroit and its failed political class are headed is clear. The only question is who will be calling the shots — a team appointed by Lansing under new emergency management legislation or a federal bankruptcy judge.
Mayor Dave Bing gets a slap for saying municipal bankruptcy isn't an option, which Howes feels "sounds more reminiscent of ousted General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner, circa 2008, than the mayor probably intends:"
