all I can tell you about Detroit is those complaining have never worked there

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109. Is it much worse than South Carolina?

If federal money from other states is cut off, South Carolina would become a desert in a matter of a generation, or will be an unsafe place to live as the have not's take from the have's, peacefully or through violence.

Detroit can improve. I am disappointed that Dave Bing couldn't turn the city around. The city needs elected officials that work hard every day to turn the city around and who are willing to make tough choices. Homes that are abandoned, buildings that are abandoned should be torn down and playing fields or urban farms put in their place, with all the property policed to prevent a few parasites from making a hell for decent people that work hard and are trying to lead productive lives. Detroit's problem is that too many elected leaders of the past and present abandoned their responsibility to the city, allowed city departments to hire some workers that didn't work, not all, but some. Detroit doesn't get lavish federal dollars sent to them to cover incompetence like South Carolina does.