Last week, Emergency Manager (and bankruptcy lawyer) Kevyn Orr decided to list the holdings of the Detroit Institute of Arts among the city’s assets in preparation for a possible bankruptcy. If the city goes through with it, it could be forced to sell off any of its assets–which now include the museum’s collection.
Let it burn.
h/t Marvin
Just read that article before I came back here. Sell off one or two classics and they can keep their blacksmith employed for another couple years. Mind you, if their fire equipment keeps deteriorating, they may need to shoe some horses to get a pump to a fire.
I don’t understand why the Police won’t attend fires to protect the firemen,or is it “fire-persons”,when there is gunfire close by the burning buildings.
Isn’t that the duty of those noble men in blue sworn “to serve and protect”?
Or do they have a different motto now?
what country in Africa is Detroit located in?????
If you build it…..they will come.
And millions of others will leave.
Who’d ever thought the RoboCop movies were predictive programming of where Detroit was going – in reality it was thrown to the miscreant fringe by kleptocratic socialist governments who bled the city’s wealth engines dry and production moved to more friendly jurisdictions. Now, as in RoboCop crime gangs rule the city and citizens must protect themselves as the police function dissolves in non funding –
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-31/detroit-citizens-protect-themselves-after-police-force-decimated.html
Detroit should declare themselves part of Gaza. Think of all the international funding they would receive. Perhaps even a Haitian city.
The money scams would continue unabated by the democrats in perpetuity.
Let this city be razed. It has become nothing but a moral lesson on cupidity of the left.
I’m sure there are some real Citizens left. Relocate them.
Detroit: the legacy of Democrats, unions, leftists and socialists. There hasn’t been a Republican in charge there for eons. Wonder who or what they’ll blame this on. Global warming?
Move UN headquarters to Detroit.
They are a perfect match.
The Detroit Institute of Arts was the first museum I ever visited. I found it quite enjoyable. A huge fresco? by Diego of the industrial revolution was the main draw then and likely still is today.
Another memory of the place was the street scene across Woodward Ave. Back then ,this is the late 60’s, it was quite ‘robust’ and we were warned to stay on our side of the street. I don’t imagine that is has become any less robust over the years. Selling off or relocating the building and contents to a more genteel area may be the way to go.
Another oddity.
This story and photo from the N.Y. Times was up here a month or so ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/business/energy-environment/mountain-of-petroleum-coke-from-oil-sands-rises-in-detroit.html
Now if you look at the photo of Detroit from today’s article you will notice a striking disparity. The NYT seems to have a problem with perspective.
The fruits of socialism is right.
I visited the DIA a few years ago. Outside it was a mess. Inside, they had a pretty good collection. ‘Too bad they’re going to have to sell it off. OTOH, logical consequences.