Again, Bytor, that is a myth. Detroit does NOT have too big of a government, again, compare their numbers with comparable "Republican" cities and counties. The difference is that in Detroit, ONLY the public sector employees have remained because of layoffs and migration out of the city. Public workers don't have competitive resumes outside of public sector work, and the public sector is simply NOT hiring around the country, so where would these folks go? No where. So they are more or less stuck in Detroit. Further, many of these have invested their futures in Detroit, through their pension and retirement plans as well as the tenure they've worked towards within the system. So leaving wouldn't necessarily benefit them. Yet, neither does staying when bankruptcy means their pensions can get nullified or gutted through restructuring, and their very jobs are also on the line.
But hey, its not like we need teachers, police, fire-fighters, city maintenance workers, bureaucrats, or any other workers. Lets just have a free-for-all, a Rightists dream, NO government to speak of
