Hillary Clinton knocks those who want to ` ` Let Detroit go bankrupt '' Clinton argued the city would have ` ` let manufacturing just wither away '' This was a choice that would change the future of an industry , a state and a nation . '' Mitt Romney famously wrote an essay titled ` ` Let Detroit go bankrupt '' in 2008 . The oped was used effectively against Romney during his failed 2012 presidential run .
Hillary Clinton knocks those who want to ` ` Let Detroit go bankrupt '' Clinton argued the city would have ` ` let manufacturing just wither away '' Mitt Romney famously wrote an essay titled ` ` Let Detroit go bankrupt '' in 2008 . The oped was used effectively against Romney during his failed 2012 presidential run .