That $650,000 office allotment is about SIX TIMES larger than what the average member of the Michigan House of Representatives gets for the same purpose -- paying the bills of running their legislative office. And it's also noteworthy to point out that Michigan lawmakers are the second highest paid in America, while Detroit is one of the poorest big cities in the nation.The members of the Detroit City Council are protesting Kwame Kilpatrick's blatant corruption, but all politics there is a farce. Even school board members are corrupt. As Rush Limbaugh says, people get the kind of governance that they deserve. And years of race baiting and identity politics have established a pattern that does not seem to have any hope of ending soon. And the market is adjusting: people and businesses are rightly moving out of Detroit as quickly as possible.
Thanks to blatant political corruption wrought by grievance mongers and union thugs, Detroit is looking more and more like a feudal European state. The elite drive by in their fancy cars bought with taxpayer money while around them people struggle to eke out a barely subsistence income. This, my friends, is democracy for an electorate with the wrong priorities and values. People who believe they can spend your money better than you inevitably end up driving cars worth twenty times as much as yours.
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