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Detroit Debacle: Missing Party at Bargaining Table July 30, 2013

All along the painful decline of the once thriving Detroit, one party was consistently missing at the bargaining table: the tax payers.

The elected representatives gave Detroit tax payers’ money away until they were no longer able to afford the endless fat checks to public sector labor unions.

This is called “况慷他人之慨.“ Of course, “费别姓之财，於人为不利，於己甚无谓乎？”

The ones who have generously spent other people’s money buying votes got re-elected again and again. This amounted to “legalized bribery” disguised as democracy, even though the other 49.99% might disagree with the so-called “majority.” The only recourse those disgusted tax payer had was to vote with their feet and move to other communities. In the end, the ones without any means got totally screwed.

I hope the bankrupted judge is able to see through this legal but unethical practice and reduced pensions to union members. It is only fair, isn’t it? I also hope that the disguised tax payer file a class action law suit against current and former city officials who failed miserably to protect tax payers’ interests for so long. Someone or some people have to be held accountable for their mistake.

Of course, this didn’t just happened in Detroit. It has been happening up and down the entire political spectrum for decades in the United States: from the president of the United States on down to the Senators, the Representatives and to many if not all elected officials in the State and local levels.

For sixty or seventy years, America repeatedly declared itself the “sole defender of democracy” in the world. The United States gave itself the license to wave the “flag of democracy” in the faces of others nations. It also repeatedly called on other nations to change and constantly told them that this was the only way to go.

In the mean time, the U.S. government either covertly via secret CIA operations or overtly in the form of wars, interfered in other nations’ internal affairs or engaged in nations building. It then installed a so-called “Democratically elected” government. Once again, those elected representatives spent our tax money on other nations often without our input. Of course, in the case of Mursi of Egypt, democracy decidedly took a back seat because the United States didn’t like the policies the elected president tried to do. Obama looked the other way while a military coup removed Mursi, free election can wait.

I call this Hypocrisy of epic proportion because the flag of democracy was conveniently folded for Mursi.

Well, our tax money to Egypt is still on because a coup is not a coup when America doesn’t like the free-elected president.

Sorry, Mursi and millions of Mursi and Muslim Brotherhood supporters. It was not America’s fault because Obama has been tired of playing the role of the leader of the world. As far as Obama is concern, someone else can take it.

Here is the new definition of Democracy:

“Generously spending tax payers’ money for the benefit of publicly elected representatives.”

Again, the tax payers are not at the bargaining table. In the end, the ones who get screwed are the tax payers.

Royally, every time!