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