Bing It! Democratic-Run Detroit Decays to Point of Mayor Seeking Bailout
Former Syracuse sensation Dave Bing, after failing to balance the budget as mayor of dying Detroit following more than 60 years of Democratic-rule decay, is weaving through the press(ure) looking to dish the rock (bankruptcy bailout). Despite the Motown metropolitan mess being 1,200 miles away from Sanford, Fla., the delusional Detroit City Council didn't have anything more important to do amid the blight but unanimously pass a resolution calling for a federal investigation to see whether civil rights charges are warranted against acquitted George Zimmerman. Detroit is so undeniably dense that the Pistons probably think Jason Collins can keep them from being deep-sixed in the NBA after averaging a robust 1.6 ppg and 1.9 rpg over the previous six seasons.
Didn't POTUS claim "we saved Detroit" before the feds threw $300 million down the drain trying to clean up the dump? Kwame Kilpatrick, one of Bing's predecessors, was sentenced to 28 years behind bars for an assortment of crimes. If vibrant Dick Vitale didn't do it, then no one is capable of reviving the entitlement-driven municipality. Our nation is beset by an abundance of ineffectual politicians such as a U.S. Senate that hasn't provided a rudimentary budget for more than three years and is infected by a "Dingy Harry" majority leader who makes his staff excempt from ObamaCare but not the average citizen paying his salary.
Is Detroit specifically a precursor of what could happen to the United States in general because of a mountain of debt? With a backdrop of half of the city's population being functionally illiterate, the facts don't lie and no plan is workable sans concessions that unions have strongly resisted. Do the union bosses need to take a remedial math class before budging? What could the impact be from stop paying the city council and mayor, strip union contracts and sell off assets or have the city enter into a consent agreement with the state? In other words, a white conspiracy theory to clueless clowns invested in some loathsome liberal narrative.
The pressure on Bing, a two-time All-American swingman, probably hasn't been this intense to deliver results since the weight of the world was on his shoulders in the 1966 NCAA Tournament when the senior teammate of Orange coach Jim Boeheim was limited to 10 points (more than 18 below his nationally fifth-best average) and committed a team-high 6 turnovers in a 91-81 setback against Duke in the East Regional final. Boeheim, who scored 15 points in the loss, probably can commiserate with Bing about crisis management in the aftermath of the abuse allegations involving long-time assistant Bernie Fine and Yahoo Sports' report about SU's longstanding pattern of failing to adhere to its drug policy.
Boeheim became one of the nation's all-time winningest coaches and an expert on how writers can win a Pulitzer Prize while Bing is among a list of ex-college hoopsters in the political arena. Check out CollegeHoopedia.com's exhaustive research on what All-Americans have done in a wide variety of vocations in the "real world" after their basketball-playing days ended.