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malaise

(269,157 posts) Thu Jul 18, 2013, 04:41 PM Jul 2013

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Breaking - Detroit files for Bankruptcy

Too sad.

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Breaking - Detroit files for Bankruptcy (Original Post) malaise Jul 2013 OP

Poor Kevyn Orr doesn't get any chance to demonstrate his prolific emergency management skills KamaAina Jul 2013 #1

Yup. But as much as I loathe Snyder and Orr, this is a long time coming. MichiganVote Jul 2013 #2

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

1. Poor Kevyn Orr doesn't get any chance to demonstrate his prolific emergency management skills

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 04:43 PM

Jul 2013

Oh, wait a minute, this was his doing. Probably the plan all along.

MichiganVote

(21,086 posts)

2. Yup. But as much as I loathe Snyder and Orr, this is a long time coming.

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 05:44 PM

Jul 2013

The decade upon decades of corruption in Detroit have caused this.

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