Kevyn Orr Sorry For Calling Detroiters Dumb, Lazy

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Source: CBS Detroit (WWJ AM & TV)

State-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr says he “was being dumb” when he criticized Detroiters for being "dumb" and "lazy" as the city sank fiscally.

Orr released a statement apologizing to Detroit residents for comments published earlier this month in the Wall Street Journal.

Orr said then that, “For a long time the city was dumb, lazy, happy and rich … Detroit has been the center of more change in the 20th century than I dare say virtually any other city, but that wealth allowed us to have a covenant [that held] if you had an eighth grade education, you’ll get 30 years of a good job and a pension and great health care, but you don’t have to worry about what’s going to come.”

On Wednesday, he backtracked.

“I would say — very clearly to the people of Detroit — I apologize,” Orr said. “That was a slip of the tongue. I was being dumb. I’ve since come to realize it’s a distraction.”

Read more: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/08/14/kevyn-orr-sorry-for-calling-detroiters-dumb-lazy/

[branford]

1. Ov vey.

Detroit is doomed.

[KamaAina]

2. But was he being lazy?

So help me, when I saw that, I thought "Please, god, let that be The Onion." No such luck.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. That's mighty gracious of him to apologize

After all, Orr is a fucking dictator and doesn't need the approval of the people of Detroit for anything he does.

[Demeter]

4. Orr continues to Astound and Underwhelm

Unpaid tax liens on his Maryland home, taking pensions away from people who don't qualify for social security, trying to cop the art in the DIA for the banksters, and now this: insulting the people he's already destroying.