(Hat Tip From Booker Rising)
Conservative columnist Gregory Kane has penned an analysis about the conditions in the Detroit Public schools. He watched the recent documentary seen on BET entitled: "Heart of the City: Dropped Out in Detroit".
As a resident of the Baltimore area he, no doubt, understands the plight and the politics associated with large, failing, urban school systems and the people who make sure they remain that way per their ideological bigotry and incompetence.
There is no need for me to do follow up analysis as Mr Kane has laid out the issues in an adequate fashion.
Instead I choose to run with the argument: "Detroit Public Schools Need More Money Because The Children Are Suffering With The Present State Of Schools".
I have to agree that the children are suffering.
The need for a municipal government to have access to financial resources as a means of providing basic services to its citizens is as true today as it was the day that the founding fathers of the city filed paperwork with the state to obtain the city charter. It was also true on the day that the drive was initiated by the present political machine to take over every institutional seat that they now hold onto in this once great city.
Thus the question that I am forced to ask is: "Were you all aware of the financial requirements to run the city decades ago as you took the reigns and implemented a certain set of policies therein?"
The key point is that the operatives who are interested in the fate of the school children in Detroit will work to impress upon those who reside outside of Detroit to express the value of these students within the city by agreeing to share their own economic fortunes. There will be no detailed attempt to understand how they arrived at this condition as a pretext of committing to them never walking this same path again.
As with Chicago, Philly, Newark and other places - when the city drifts to the point of insolvency where it can no longer fund the provisions of its basic services we begin to hear from certain activists who remind us of their view of the facts. It is true that education is a state function, as specified in the majority of state constitutions around the nation. What they don't mention, however, is that upon the receipt of the city charter - this responsibility has been administratively yielded to the municipal government. The same charter that allowed the local government to collect their own taxes rather than having the county or state to collect also placed the expectations upon these same municipal government to deliver these services.
Intrinsic to the approval of the city charter was the assumption that these cities were viable financial concerns and that they have the combination of human, industrial, transportation and financial resources to have these disintegrated resources come together and form a greater whole.
Today we don't mention what should happen to these same cities once they become non-viable financially.
Instead we see the drive for the state to resume its redistribution effort into the city to provide for these services. Supplementing the city's mandate to run its own affairs in the process. This simply drives us toward the present "nationalization" efforts that are underway. The federal government will ultimately be the key resource provider to the masses. This will address the lack of ability of certain local governments to field an economic order that is in line with their standard of living. Secondly, the federal government, unlike municipal and state is able to print money and maintain a large debt balance.
It is all too clear what is going on people.
Ironically the more responsibility is shifted from the "bottom line" of the local economic environment up to the "magic money" of the federal government, the more people will get dependent upon producing their standard of living per their VOTE rather than per their PRODUCTIVITY and HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT order.
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