Your cash is being counted http://ww.daimonismo.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1004&p=84689 bat9 Rattner is, depressingly, entirely correct when he says that “while logical, the potential for downsizing Detroit is limited because the cityâs population didnât flee from just one neighborhood”. Detroit is too big; it must get smaller; it can’t get smaller. That’s the real tragedy of Detroit, and it’s one that no amount of federal funds can solve.