Indeed, the state has a sizable slush fund that could be spent on rectifying the problems in both Flint and Detroit, but... Michigan. I grew up in southwest Michigan, and the prevailing view was always that Detroit&#x27;s problems were its own to solve, period. It didn&#x27;t help that the city government was openly hostile to the rest of the state too, and plagued with a &quot;machine boss&quot; type of city government.