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Why does this city or its state even exist? Do the right thing for your family Billy. Move to Ohio immediately.


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

The city of Detroit faces a major financial crisis 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. He 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.


http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/2...oman-to-obama-we-supported-you-now-support-us
 
Why does this city or its state even exist? Do the right thing for your family Billy. Move to Ohio immediately.


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

The city of Detroit faces a major financial crisis 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. He 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.


http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/2...oman-to-obama-we-supported-you-now-support-us

Dude we TRIED to get an emergency manager for the city, but it was cried down as 'racist'. That's how it is in Detroit.
 
Dude we TRIED to get an emergency manager for the city, but it was cried down as 'racist'. That's how it is in Detroit.

That's funny but it's not. Crime in Oakland is getting worse and more and more crimes are going unsolved and they've started to call the city the Detroit of the West. Having a city I grew up in compared to Detroit infuriates me but what is one to do...
 
I say, let the Detroits burn! Corinth is a much cooler city, anyway...

:burn:

We burn it every year. It's called Devils Night.

Anyways, comparing Oakland to Detroit is an insult. Oakland will NEVER be the city Detroit was. Detroit was the jewel of mass industry. Hell we STILL can build anything in the world. We STILL are a hub for culture and industry and new ideas. Oakland never has, and never will, achieve the level of greatness that once was Detroit. Even if we as a city never recover and we fall entirely to obscurity, we will at least be remembered as important once. That can never be said of Oakland. Oakland won't even be a footnote in history 1,000 years from now. Detroit will at least have 1 page devoted to it.
 
They did once have a successful football team, and they are located next door to San Francisco. That's kind of a big deal compared with the other Detroit.
 
We STILL are a hub for culture and industry and new ideas.

lol......you've been an embarrassment to the rest of the state for the last fifty years......sounds like the Wizard of Oz himself has forgotten he's just a man behind a shabby curtain.......
 
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