Cities of Ruin: ABCNews.com Profiles Five 'Bankrupt' Cities, Ignores Liberal Causes
With all due respect to Petula Clark, things may not always be that great downtown.
On June 28, ABCNews.com profiled five municipalities “teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.” That list included
Despite detailing budget cuts and mass layoffs in each city, author Ray Sanchez attributed the cities’ struggles on the national recession and “mounting debt.” But Sanchez failed to delve into the liberal economic policies that got some of these cities into the perilous situation, such as
“From
But he ignored the fact that four of those five cities were run by liberal mayors whose policies have contributed to their city’s financial troubles. For example,
He buried complaints about the “ineptitude” of
Unions were also a major factor in some of the cities on the list, but Sanchez didn’t criticize them.
“When Bing took over in May 2009, the city had about 13,000 employees and a deficit of more than $300 million,” Sanchez wrote.
While Sanchez reported that
NBC “Nightly News” recently reported on one of the same cities:
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