If you read the Detroit News, you would’ve read this today:
You would also see a flawed graph pointing out that there are approximately 12,900 city employees in Detroit or, to slice it another way, 55 residents for every city employee.
However, if you read motorcitytimes.com, you would’ve read that Detroit’s two largest employers , by far, are the city itself and Detroit Public Schools.
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.
The Detroit News chart is flawed because they neglected to include the Detroit Public school employees. They should also point out that there is a significant contingent of state and federal employees within the city that don’t contribute to Detroit’s economy.
Sounds like the liberal dream – everyone working for the government. Someday we will all grow up and understand money is a symbol of a failed past, and just working for the good of the collective will be the only reward necessary. Yeah…and maybe I’m a Chinese jet pilot.
Yep, a liberal dream our fearless Obama is pursuing.
How many lib bureaucrats does it take to oversee the fail. A lot, apparently.
Good one!
What will you all do when it reaches 1:1. Are you seeing any bright lights there at all, Steve? Someone should do a documentary on Detroit. Sad. Very sad.
I think there are a few small pockets of good things happening. But as far as Detroit’s government, and the press covering them, they still don’t get it.