WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Detroit Feeling Greek As the Technocrats Close In. “The city of Henry Ford continues on its road to nowhere. Elected officials don’t want to make savage cuts in pay and benefits for some city workers while firing many others — for understandable reasons both political and humane. On the other hand, there isn’t any money and neither the state nor the feds will bail Detroit out.” And, of course, anyone who wants to seriously address the problem is a racist.