Do Not Save Detroit

From the immortal words of Dr. Klahn, “Take him to…Detroit!”

For thirty-six years those words held true. Nobody wanted to live in Detroit. Nobody would ever want to visit Detroit. And this week the city of Detroit finally gave in and filed for federal bankruptcy protection.

Emperor Hirohito, from his grave, has a little smile on his face today. Japan may have never successfully taken down the US in World War II but today they officially destroyed an entire US city.

Please do not save Detroit. Build a giant wall around the city and turn it into the world’s largest prison. It is already 80% of the way there; they just need the wall to complete it.

It is nobody’s fault but their own (corruption in the city government is rampant) and the big 3 auto makers: General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.

I don’t know if the Big 3 were ignorant, stubborn or just bad businessmen but they never recovered from the 1970’s gas crisis and the Japanese. By the time the US automakers realized the Japanese were building better cars it was too late and the end of Detroit was a foregone conclusion. The only reason it took 36 years to become official is because Americans love to buy on credit and live on debt.

Who do you think will ultimately pay for the $5.3 billion dollar debt Detroit owes? It will be you and I, the tax payer.  I don’t want to pay a single cent toward saving a city nobody wants to live in. The people who are there are simply stuck and unable to move because they have no money. I would pay to relocate them. Abandon the city.

Give each of the 700,000 remaining residents (excluding government employees and auto industry executives) $5,000 to either relocate or become residents of the new Detroit Penitentiary City. That will only cost us $3.5 billion dollars.