Of all the states currently under Republican misgovernment, Michigan, with its Emergency Management act, is probably the worst. That's saying a mouthful. In other states, corporatist stooges in the state legislature simply pass legislation designed to prevent poor people from voting. Here, they'll let the poor people vote, declare that the people elected crooked politicians who misgoverned the community, appoint an "emergency manager" whose first act is to fire the community's elected officials and then proceeds to sell off the community's assets to the highest bidder. Then, supporters of the emergency manager system claim, things will be better and the emergency manager can turn the city back to the people.
Things are better? In the wake of the emergency manager's misgovernment, according to Mr. Williams, forty percent of the residents of Detroit will be without water. How is that better? By what twisted set of priorities is that better?
This is class warfare. The poor aren't the ones who fired the first shot. And the corporate lackey who plays proconsul? Like some Roman proconsuls, he came to a rich province a poor man and leaves a poor province a rich man.
Imagine this: masses of a large American urban/industrial center are without running water. That's the sort of thing we used to associate with third world countries, like parts of the South where local officials willfully did not provide public services to poor, black communities.
= new reply since forum marked as read
