Detroit's Emergency Manager Called The City 'Dumb, Lazy, Happy, And Rich' And Now Pensioners Are Demanding An Apology
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Orr was appointed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in March to take control of the city's finances.
Here was the full section from Finley's piece this weekend:
Much of Detroit's dysfunction is also due to simple complacency. "For a long time the city was dumb, lazy, happy and rich," he explains. "Detroit has been the center of more change in the 20th century than I dare say virtually any other city, but that wealth allowed us to have a covenant [that held] if you had an eighth grade education, you'll get 30 years of a good job and a pension and great health care, but you don't have to worry about what's going to come."
Seems pretty innocuous.
But the retirees — who sued to block Orr's Chapter 9 filing — already have it out for him. As Freep columnist Tom Walsh put it, many Detroiters "distrustful and embarrassed that a governor is imposing a taskmaster on them."
Gardner does note that other commentators like National Journal's Ron Fournier are also calling out Orr for the remark.
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