Detroit’s City Council Still Raking It In

by Dave Blount | February 3, 2011 3:08 pm

Even with Detroit in ruins, and nature reclaiming[1] the abandoned wasteland[2] that was once a great city, the Dems who destroyed it continue to make out like the bandits they are[3]:

Detroit’s City Council is one of the most expensive in the nation, according to a survey released Wednesday of the nation’s largest cities.

Detroit spends about $13 million for its nine-member council and staffers. That’s less than other cities such as Los Angeles [which is run by a Reconquistador and has been going broke], but it represents 1 percent of Detroit’s total general fund budget — the highest percentage of all 15 cities studied by the Philadelphia-based Pew Charitable Trusts. In comparison, New York’s council represents just 0.1 percent of its city spending. …

Detroit also ranks near the top when spending is measured on a per-capita basis. The panel costs Detroit taxpayers $14.53 per resident — higher than all other cities except Washington, D.C., which costs $32.41 per resident but performs state and county functions because of its special status…

Phoenix, which has a part-time council, is the cheapest at $2.10 per resident.

Cheaper and less intrusive government is why Phoenix is now the fifth largest US city, as Detroit once was[4]. Now Detroit is 11th[5] and falling like a cinderblock from an overpass.

On the positive side, at least former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick[6] and City Council member Monica Conyers[7] (wife of former Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers) are in jail where they belong. Two down, the rest of the moonbat kleptocrats running America’s most liberal city[8] to go.

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Applied moonbattery, via Politifake.org[9].

On a tip from /not my real name. Cross-posted at Moonbattery[10].

Endnotes:
  1. nature reclaiming: http://www.detroitblog.org/?p=287
  2. abandoned wasteland: http://detroitsghetto.blogspot.com/2009/10/detroit-dying-city.html
  3. like the bandits they are: http://www.detnews.com/article/20110203/METRO01/102030382/1409/Detroit-council-one-of-nation%E2%80%99s-costliest
  4. once was: http://247wallst.com/2010/08/23/americas-ten-dead-cities-from-detroit-to-new-orleans/
  5. 11th: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html
  6. Kwame Kilpatrick: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/25/national/main6517389.shtml
  7. Monica Conyers: http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/09/monica-conyers-begins-prison-sentence.html
  8. most liberal city: http://govpro.com/content/gov_imp_31439/
  9. Politifake.org: http://www.politifake.org/
  10. Moonbattery: http://www.moonbattery.com/

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