Title needs "(2008)". And the very first para suggests that the author is not-so-competent at foretelling the future:<p>> IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.
3 years later the author of this article flip-flopped and renegade that opinion, because he needed votes from the workers whose jobs this bailout saved.<p>But the flip-flop didn't work.<p>Reality has a knack at making ideologies look pathetic.
Cities in decline, like Detroit (population halved in only 35 years), need a plan. There are going to be a lot more such cities, especially in countries with low birth rates.