Despite bankruptcy, Detroit’s new $400 million dollar taxpayer-funded hockey rink is a “go”

Read the whole thing at HotAir.

Failure sometimes has an inertia that is difficult to stop. Detroit’s reality is anything but pretty:

Detroit city services are already stretched extremely thin. On average, police take about an hour to respond to calls for help, and 40% of street lights are shut off to save money.

Because of a lack of funds, the police force has shrunk in size to the point that it simply can’t respond in any meaningful way to help citizens who are victims of crime. As you might imagine then, crime is horrific. City services are so minimal as to almost be non-existent. Yet the refusal to face that reality and deal with it still exists among those who should know better.