[anigbrowl]

I'm overwhelmingly in favor of the Federal Government stepping in and doing some very unpleasant things - as necessary - to the city

I get what you're saying here but you're expressing it poorly, and without regard to the fact that the overwhelming unpleasantness is likely to fall on the vulnerable rather than the excessively comfortable, as exemplified by the proliferation of bad policy choices currently taking place at the federal level.