Rest assured union hacks will still collect unreasonable and unsustainable benefits. AP: Unable to pay bill, Mich. city turns off lights

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) -- As the sun dips below the rooftops each evening, parts of this Detroit enclave turn to pitch black, the only illumination coming from a few streetlights at the end of the block or from glowing yellow yard globes.

It wasn't always this way. But when the debt-ridden community could no longer afford its monthly electric bill, elected officials not only turned off 1,000 streetlights. They had them ripped out -- bulbs, poles and all. Now nightfall cloaks most neighborhoods in inky darkness.

The predictable result of giving Democrats unchecked power over everything. Their union buddies get a sweetheart deal, the taxpayers get screwed.