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Bankrupt Detroit Cannot Wait For Federal Cavalry: City Manager
Submitted by Sharon Secor on Mon, 2013-07-22 02:00
"We are not expecting the cavalry to come charging in," he said. "We have to fix it because we dug the hole."Well, seeing as municipal monies are basically made up of money taken from taxpayers – something Detroit has been losing pretty rapidly – digging out is likely to prove quite difficult.
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