DETROIT COLLAPSES INTO A BLACK HOLE

"Mayor Dave Bing said Wednesday he "absolutely" intends to relocate residents from desolate neighborhoods and is bracing for inevitable legal challenges when he unveils his downsizing plan.

In his strongest statements about shrinking the city since taking office, Bing told WJR-AM (760) the city is using internal and external data to decide "winners and losers." The city plans to save some neighborhoods and encourage residents to move from others, he said.

"If we don't do it, you know this whole city is going to go down. I'm hopeful people will understand that," Bing said. "If we can incentivize some of those folks that are in those desolate areas, they can get a better situation."
Detroit News

I think we have just seen the future. If you choose to live in an urban environment, dependent upon public services, you will sacrifice your autonomy. This is perfectly reasonable and completely evil. This is the very essence of central planning, reminiscent of Soviet Central Committees and gray concrete warehouses called apartments.

But what can cities do? The tax base that supported the web of government services that have supported the urbanites very existence depends on the redistribution of wealth; wealth that is no longer available to the planners as the economy collapses. Sewers, electric, food, protection and even water; access to all of these rely on access to a common pool of wealth, a social contract that is being destroyed by economic depression. To retain these services cities must necessarily shrink.

What about the suburbs? They have the same problem as the cities but on a much larger and far less manageable scale. As the economy contracts, eventually to a point far below that of the Great Depression of the 1930's suburbs will cease to exist. They are too large and scattered to be serviced by the limited public utilities yet too populated to support the people that live there from the land alone. The suburbs will turn into a no mans land of those living on the edge of existence until even they are no more. The American dream will turn into a junk yard, a giant outdoor warehouse of materials for those that survive.

St. Michael, defend us!