"Could smoking reefer and having risky sex with hookers be the solution for an economic crisis? That’s what a prominent Midwestern Democrat thinks. This “sin solution” exposes a desperate attempt to distract voters from the fact that a morally bankrupt Democratic Party is driving the nation over a cliff.
On “Michigan Matters,” a local TV show on Saturday, Geoffrey Fieger recommended that Detroit - long known as the car-producing capital of the world - should rebrand itself as a new, more risque Sin City. If he were mayor, “I’d tell the police department to leave marijuana alone and don’t spend one dime trying to enforce marijuana laws,” he said. “I also would not enforce prostitution laws, and I’d make us the new Amsterdam.” Supposedly all the bread and circuses and debauchery would give the Motor City economy a needed shot in the arm. “We would attract young people. You make Detroit a fun city, a place they want to live, and they would flock here,” Mr. Fieger explained. The same empty promises were made when casinos were approved in Detroit 15 years ago.
Mr. Fieger’s right about one thing, though. By just about all economic and social indicators, Detroit is the pits. Motown’s unemployment and illiteracy rates are stuck around 50 percent, and infant mortality is worse than in hellholes like Syria, Russia and China. Miles and miles of abandoned property have created a moonscape taken over by packs of wild dogs and truckers dumping industrial waste in the middle of the night. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl once observed that Detroit’s urban wasteland reminded him of what his country’s bombed-out cities looked like after World War II. None of this means it can’t go to ruin faster; giving drug dealers carte blanche would only escalate the chaos. The Las Vegas area, America’s reigning den of iniquity, is one of the few places with a worse foreclosure rate than the Rust Belt, proving vice isn’t the best economic model. Abandoning the last vestiges of human decency will only make a tough place rougher. ".........read it here
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