Normally I would think this was AWESOME.

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/11/6034591-detroit-robocop-statue-could-be-reality-thanks-to-internet
If Michigan were not in the midst of  unemployment hovering around 15%, as well as a self-proclaimed financial crisis, I would consider this a great success. If Milwaukee can have a statue of fucking Fonzie, why not Detroit with its legendary imaginary law enforcer? Or, maybe this $50,000 could have been donated to a neighborhood homeless shelter. Or a school. Well done. Maybe a giant statue of Ted Nugent would be better. The money would probably come from the NRA and the Michigan Militia instead. Stop encouraging poor people to do ridiculous things with their cash, like buy Shake Weights, Flowbees and George W. Bush commemorative Mission Accomplished! coins from the Franklin Mint.