On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:15:12 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

We could have helped out the city of Detroit, but we blew those
trillions on Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and
he will eat for the rest of his life.

How do you propose fixing Detroit's issues for the long term? They
could blow through a trillion or two in no time at all. The auto
industry is not coming back any time soon and that is what built
Detroit in the first place. I know people in upstate NY who are
still waiting for the paper and carpet making industies to come back,
and they started leaving over 60 years ago.