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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... y/2552819/
The city of Detroit has filed for bankruptcy protection, becoming the largest city in U.S. history to do so.

State-appointed Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr on Thursday asked a federal judge permission to place the city into Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.

The filing would begin a 30- to 90-day period that will determine whether the city is eligible for Chapter 9 protection and define how many claimants might compete for the limited settlement resources that Detroit has to offer. The bankruptcy petition would seek protection from creditors and unions who are renegotiating $18.5 billion in debt and other liabilities.

Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, who in June released a plan to restructure the city's debt and obligations that would leave many creditors with much less than they are owed, has warned consistently that if negotiations hit an impasse, he would move quickly to seek bankruptcy protection.
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Fucking conks. :ohno:
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D1B wrote:**** conks. :ohno:
Fuc***g donks. **** that cesspool that is Detroit. And **** the unions who are responsible along with those donk leaders for running that city into the ground. Dumb ***** voters were stupid enough to give donks 100% power in that city for decades. They reap what they sow. :nod: And your boy Barry aint going to be able to use taxpayer $$$ to pour down that sh**hole to bail them out either. :nod:
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BDKJMU wrote:
D1B wrote:**** conks. :ohno:
Fuc***g donks. **** that cesspool that is Detroit. And **** the unions who are responsible along with those donk leaders for running that city into the ground. Dumb ***** voters were stupid enough to give donks 100% power in that city for decades. They reap what they sow. :nod: And your boy Barry aint going to be able to use taxpayer $$$ to pour down that sh**hole to bail them out either. :nod:
Yeah, I'm sure it's all their fault. :coffee:
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Another rustbelt city bites the dust and more mass migration to the Southern states. :coffee:
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Good thing Rick Snyder and his emergency managers were able to save Detroit! :thumb:
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kalm wrote:
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Good thing Rick Snyder and his emergency managers were able to save Detroit! :thumb:
To many decades of "progressive" control to recover.

Not to worry. Detroit is to big to fail.
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kalm wrote:
BDKJMU wrote:
Fuc***g donks. **** that cesspool that is Detroit. And **** the unions who are responsible along with those donk leaders for running that city into the ground. Dumb ***** voters were stupid enough to give donks 100% power in that city for decades. They reap what they sow. :nod: And your boy Barry aint going to be able to use taxpayer $$$ to pour down that sh**hole to bail them out either. :nod:
Yeah, I'm sure it's all their fault. :coffee:
How could it be...D1B has already told us that it was 100% the fault of conks.
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As Herman Cain might say, Detroit has filed a "Chapter 9-9-9!" :mrgreen:
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During the most recent presidential campaign 0bama chided Romney for suggesting that Detriot be "allowed to go into bankruptcy."

What say you now Mr. President?????????????????

Just a classic result of a liberal utopia that ran out of other peoples' money.........
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Ivytalk wrote:As Herman Cain might say, Detroit has filed a "Chapter 9-9-9!" :mrgreen:
I read that in Hermaine's voice! :lol:
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blueballs wrote:During the most recent presidential campaign 0bama chided Romney for suggesting that Detriot be "allowed to go into bankruptcy."

What say you now Mr. President?????????????????

Just a classic result of a liberal utopia that ran out of other peoples' money.........
And yet they are so stupid they will come up with excuses about why it wasn't their fault. Idiots

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Theres a bunch of people who relocated from Michigan down here in Texas. Detroit just carried all their eggs in one basket and are now paying the piper. Pittsburg reinvented themselves after the stell industry. Time for Detroit to be about more then cars.
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blueballs wrote:During the most recent presidential campaign 0bama chided Romney for suggesting that Detriot be "allowed to go into bankruptcy."

What say you now Mr. President?????????????????

Just a classic result of a liberal utopia that ran out of other peoples' money.........
This is coming from all these pensions that are dragging the city into debt. Just wait 5-10 more years when the boomers start really collecting SS. SS has been known as a problem for decades and every leader crosses their fingers hoping it won't hit until their term is up.
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This one can fairly easily be pinned on Unions and Liberal politicians pandering to the union vote :nod:
Ironically our congress also quite literally functions as a union
a) It's everybody else, not me attitude
b) Zero accountability while holding themselves to the lowest possible standard
c) inexplicable salary money for life

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How could Detroit survive under the control of rampage workers Unions and being pandered to by Congress
that is a sure thing disaster right there
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ALPHAGRIZ1 wrote:
blueballs wrote:During the most recent presidential campaign 0bama chided Romney for suggesting that Detriot be "allowed to go into bankruptcy."

What say you now Mr. President?????????????????

Just a classic result of a liberal utopia that ran out of other peoples' money.........
And yet they are so stupid they will come up with excuses about why it wasn't their fault. Idiots

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Chizzang wrote:This one can fairly easily be pinned on Unions and Liberal politicians pandering to the union vote :nod:
Ironically our congress also quite literally functions as a union
a) It's everybody else, not me attitude
b) Zero accountability while holding themselves to the lowest possible standard
c) inexplicable salary money for life

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How could Detroit survive under the control of rampage workers Unions and being pandered to by Congress
that is a sure thing disaster right there
They got great contracts when times were good and then can't understand why those contracts can't be better or god forbid the same when the Detroit economy crashed. It's like at my job, if the company's profit suffers over the year, there will be less raises and promotions to hand out. There may be layoffs or cutbacks.

For the record I worked for the State of Texas for four years. I got one promotion, one raise, and zero cost of lving raises. In my grop of 16 maybe 2 people a year got a raise due to budget cutbacks. So not all government programs are bloated and giving each other money all the time.
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