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July 22, 2013

“Oh, well, Detroit’s an ‘outlier.’”

It’s an outlier only in the sense that it happened here first. The same malign alliance between a corrupt political class, rapacious public-sector unions, and an ever more swollen army of welfare dependents has been adopted in the formally Golden State of California, and in large part by the Obama administration, whose priorities — “health” “care” “reform,” “immigration” “reform” — are determined by the same elite/union/dependency axis. As one droll tweeter put it, “If Obama had a city, it would look like Detroit.” The Downfall of Detroit | National Review Online

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 22, 2013 8:07 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Not an outlier so much as the far end of the curve, the marginal case. The marginal is the piece of land next to the cliff edge. The cliff edge collapses one day, and guess what. You have a brand new marginal case. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Posted by: ed in texas at July 22, 2013 6:09 PM

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