thousands of former city
workers like retired worker
bees or colonies of ants,
not the unemployed victims
of stereotypical prejudice
characterized as welfare slugs
and even worse on the economy,
will get a few pennies on the
dollar in their pensions because
da gov. and da emergency man-
ager decided the time was short
and progress had to be made
and enough was enough. In
light of the news that so many
would lose so much, they both
sounded empathic, no emphatic
when they said something like,
“that’s too bad, but the city will have
a great opportunity now economic-
ally to move forward.” what
about moving forward morally
and ethically toward all those
who worked all those years?
what is enough is to pay those
workers 100 cents on every dollar.
it was the agreement, guaranteed
or not. if da gov thinks that starting
anew on the backs of those bees and
ants who paid their due, maybe da
gov should consider forking over
a part of his personal accumulated
wealth and co-opting the west
michigan billionaires to pony up
so the hapless retirees can continue
to contribute to the economy and the
city can still rise like a michigan
phoenix from the ashes of complex
factors such as the pollutants of
bias, prejudice, incompetence,
greed, stupidity, hubris and a
dozen other factors and a whole
lot of sinful social behavior
which have nothing to do with
people who have worked all
those years and should be the
darlings of the gop’s call
to fiscal responsibility but
apparently are not. did I
just hear the nerdy guy say,
“let dem eat cake”?