Detroit councilwoman to Obama: We voted for you, now bail us out

[BigBadBrian]

DETROIT (WJBK) -- The city of Detroit faces a major financialcrisis and one member of city council thinks President Barack Obama should step in and help.

City Council member JoAnn Watson said Tuesday the citizens support of Obama in last month's election was enough reason for the president to bailout the struggling the city. (Click the video player to listen)

"Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president and there ought to be a quid pro quo and you ought to exercise leadership on that," said Watson. "Of course, not just that, but why not?"

Nearly 75 percent of Wayne County voters pulled the lever for Obama in November.

"After the election of Jimmy Carter, the honorable Coleman Alexander Young, he went to Washington, D.C. and came home with some bacon," said Watson. "That's what you do."

Young served as Detroit's mayor for 20 years and served as vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1977 to 1981.

The White House has expressed no plans to bailout the cash-crunched city that some experts say could run out of money by the end of the year.

The federal government has bailed out cities in the past, however. In 1975, President Gerald Ford extended more than $2 billion in credit to New York City to help it avoid a financial collapse. LINK

[ELVIS]

LMAO !!

[Matt White]

DETROIT.....the PARIS of the WEST

circa 1930

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMysMDHdb4

[Nitro Express]

She showed us all her poker hand.

These people are going to freak hard when they finally wake up to the very real fact that nobody is going to help them but themselves. The politicians in Washington DC are nothing more than blood suckers. Detroit doesn't have much left to suck from or may I say steal from. If Detroit is going to rise from the ashes it will have to be the result of the people who live in Detroit and nobody else. The question I have to put out here is would you bet your money on the people there?

[ELVIS]

Fuck no...

The one's that know how to fend for themselves left years ago...

[Matt White]

Fuck no...

The one's that know how to fend for themselves left years ago...

*The ones who could afford to leave years ago*

DETROIT has to be witnessed to be believed...............

the vacant land could fit the entire city of PARIS in it............

[Nitro Express]

It's a far cry from these days when most people in Detroit had a job to go to and were too busy making money to cause trouble.

[FORD]

So now we get closer to the truth.... Detroit didn't "die". It was murdered by corporate greed.

And it probably didn't help that the city's second most successful industry, Motown Records, also left town, for that matter.

[Nitro Express]

It's not just corporate greed. It's union greed, drugs, a lack of a solid family structure, a lack of education, a lack of moral ethics, a lack of a work ethic. You just can't nail the whole problem on just corporations outsourcing.

[FORD]

union greed?

Bullshit.

[Nitro Express]

union greed?

Bullshit.

Oh unions can be as greedy as the corporations. Most the time they just take people's money and have little to show for it.

[FORD]

Oh unions can be as greedy as the corporations. Most the time they just take people's money and have little to show for it.

Unlike, say, the mammoth corporations, who take the people's money, have little to show for it except outsourced jobs and toxic chinese crap products, and who don't even fucking pay taxes.

None of which happened when the majority of the American working class was unionized, by the way.

[Nitro Express]

The bottom line is it's greed and the greed has infiltrated into everything at major levels. It's not so black and white as unions are good and corporations are bad. They both can be good or bad depending on the specific situation. If unions make the cost of production or the production uncompetitive they kill the company and sometimes the whole industry. Unions tend to have the attitude there are unlimited assets and rarely see the big economic picture.

[BigBadBrian]

union greed?

Bullshit.

truth.

[Nitro Express]

Non-Union Linemen Helping with Sandy Recovery Told They Are Not Welcome in New Jersey (*Update)
Posted on November 2, 2012
Given that South Jersey was plowed under by the universe a few days ago, one would think it could use all the help it could get. Yet if the help is non-union help, they don’t want it.


I am sure that the hundreds of thousands of people without power right now would be pleased to know they are helping out labor’s cause.

Your Unions at work.