One theme covered extensively at motorcitytimes.com is the failings of liberalism in Detroit.

Much has been made over the newly released 2010 census data showing that there are now only 713,777 residents in Detroit. The numbers put into perspective the abject failure LBJ (and his fellow liberals) Great Society project has been.

Detroit was the prototype for LBJ’s grand social experiment that put big government front and center in all affairs. Looking at the results today, there is no denying that big government has failed miserably.

Detroit was once an economic powerhouse. Today it home to staggeringly high unemployment. Worse, accompanying the high unemployment, there is another interesting and under-reported statistic that does not bode well for the city. Detroit’s two largest employers , by far, are the city itself and Detroit Public Schools.

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Looking even more closely at the list of major employers in Detroit one can see that there is something is seriously wrong with this picture:
This unsustainable employment unbalance between public and private sector employment is a direct result of Detroit putting government front and center in its economy much like what Washington is doing today. Nearly half of the people working at Detroit’s top 20 twenty employers do not contribute anything to its economy (government, including education, is an expense) and in fact subtract from the economy.

Looking at the much ballyhooed 2010 census data you can see one unmistakable fact. People are voting with their feet , leaving Detroit and the results of LBJ’s Great Society experiment.

Detroit was supposed to be the model progressive city. Today, people are fleeing the city as fast as possible.

As pointed out numerous times here @ motorcitytimes.com, team Obama’s economic policy is based on inflationary practices.  And now we are starting to see the true effects of these policies.

Via CNBC:

Headline numbers, which include the things we eat and drink and power our car with, showed an ugly 1.6 percent increase. But, of course, we’re not supposed to look at “headline” inflation, just the core numbers because they represent more constant cost patterns.

So let’s do that.

After all, the criticism against those who focus on the headline is that we dismiss areas that show decreases and only focus on those numbers that build our case for inflation.

The trouble is, in the latest report, which measures February prices, there are almost no negative numbers to be found.

One index after another shows stunning surges, none more so than the gain in finished consumer foods. Those prices jumped 3.9 percent in February, the biggest gain in 37 years, going all the way back to the Nixon administration. Fresh and dry vegetables soared 48.7 percent in just one month!

Energy prices posted shocking gains as well: Crude energy materials rose 0.9 percent in February and were up 17.8 percent over the past three months. The natural gas index jumped 7.6 percent in the month and intermediate energy goods rose 4.3 percent, the largest one-month gain since January 2010.

Here’s the worst part when it comes to energy: The PPI measures prices at a fixed date just before the mid-point of the month, which in the case of February would have been before the huge run in oil that sent crude prices over $100 a barrel and gas at the pump to $3.50 a gallon. Thursday’s consumer price numbers, which measure the entire month, should be a real hoot.

Think about the statement “the trouble is, in the latest report, which measures February prices, there are almost no negative numbers to be found.”  Everything across the board is getting more expensive.

Which is exactly what the Bracketologist-In-Chief wants.