White House to help bankrupt Detroit demolish buildings, hire firefighters

[Geee]

Town Hall:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House will send a group of top officials to Detroit on Friday to offer millions in assistance for knocking down empty buildings, hiring firefighters and adding buses to the city fleet, as the city struggles after filing for bankruptcy.

 

The federal aid has been tapped from a variety of existing programs and is part of a patchwork of grants complementing investments by the city, state and private foundations.

 

"We're going to continue to support the efforts under way in Detroit and ensure the federal government is an active partner in supporting the revitalization of the city," said Gene Sperling, director of the White House National Economic Council, who has led federal discussions with Detroit on how best to help.

 

Sperling and cabinet officials will discuss the plan at a meeting with Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, the city's emergency manager Kevyn Orr, members of the Michigan congressional delegation and other leaders.

[Geee]

Obama administration plans $320 million to aid Detroit recovery

 

Top Obama administration officials will head to Detroit on Friday to announce nearly $320 million in federal and private aid as the city grapples with the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.

 

The aid includes money for housing rehabilitation and demolition, some $30 million targeted to fight crime and reduce the city's notoriously long emergency response times, and millions more to rehabilitate the city's transportation network.

The aid package will be announced Friday by HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, Attorney General Eric Holder and White House Economic Council director Gene Sperling.

 

“We’re going to continue to support the efforts underway in Detroit and ensure the federal government is an active partner in supporting the revitalization of the city," Sperling said. "This effort is about lifting up Detroit, and committing to a shared, long-term investment that will enable the businesses and residents in Detroit to expand opportunity and renew this world-class city.”

 

The aid, which comes from existing federal spending that is being expedited, pledged and re-purposed, is designed to improve the safety and security of Detroit, which has been devastated by a rapid population decline — and corresponding loss of tax receipts.

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/325057-obama-administration-plans-320-million-for-motown-aid

[Valin]

@Geee

 

Great news for These Cities.

We knew this was coming.

[Geee]

Cavuto was just discussing this on Fox - that if we bail out Detroit we are setting a precedent for these cities.

[Valin]

Cavuto was just discussing this on Fox - that if we bail out Detroit we are setting a precedent for these cities.

That would never ever happen!

 

Why the slightest thought has not even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of anything remotely like that happening.

You're just being paranoid. Fortunately as we speak our beloved betters are prepareing a place for troublemakers like you.

but you didn't hear that from me.

[SrWoodchuck]

Thursday Humor: Detroit Union Demands Payment For 13th Month Every Year http://beforeitsnews.com/gold-and-precious-metals/2013/09/thursday-humor-detroit-union-demands-payment-for-13th-month-every-year-2529000.html

 

Beggars once again have become choosers it would appear. As Bloomberg reports, a Detroit city union is demanding that the bankruptcy judge reinstate a policy that enables a "13th" monthly check to be cut for pensioners every year. The policy, which was ended in 2011, cost the city $1.92 billion, according to a report commissioned by the city. We are just not sure whether this an "Onion" headline or real.

 

 

It's real according to Bloomberg News: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-27/detroit-union-seeks-to-revive-13th-pension-check-policy.html

 

'Tacit Agreement’

 

The 13th checks for retirees were allowed by the city almost every year for so long that they became a right that couldn’t be revoked unilaterally, according to a ruling by Doyle O’Connor, an administrative law judge with the employment relations commission.

 

“A practice that continues for three decades is a tacit agreement,” O’Connor said in an oral ruling in February. The city should have negotiated the change with the union as part of a new employment contract.

 

In its motion, the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees asked Rhodes to lift the automatic stay, which prevents lawsuits against the city while it is in bankruptcy. Because of the stay, O’Connor hasn’t made a written recommendation that the commission can use to force the city to restore the pension board’s power to issue the extra checks, the union said.

 

‘Damage Award’

 

O’Connor is retiring next month and the union said it wants him to be free to issue his recommendation to the commission, including “affixing any damage award” the city may owe for barring the 13th-check policy.

[Casino67]

Would be interesting if someone would 'follow the money'. Which pols are going to get rich?

[quantim]

Pffft.

 

As someone who has spent 50 years in the suburbs of Detroit can tell you one thing:

 

This is not about doing a darned thing for Detroit, this is about propping up UNIONS, what's left of them.

 

Detroit is indeed bankrupt. But can't really blame the unions as they have been enabled for decades by the liberals, Marxists, progessives, The Projects, drugs, gangs, corruption.

 

Notice the code words though... firefighters...

 

Why do you need more firefighters if the amount of buildings are being drastically reduced? And all the workers, truck drivers, etc. will be union too.

 

Detroit unions are going to be busted, largely.

 

And Michigan is now-right-to-work, this is nothing more than the Obama admin trying to a few more votes for next year.

 

Karl Marxist Lenin, Michigan senator is retiring.

 

It's an open seat and the two leading candidates, socialist Gary Peters, congresscritter and whose nose is in Obama's posterior, and our former two-time Sec. of State Terry Lynn Land are tied in the last poll.

 

Smell a pickup here...

[Valin]

Thursday Humor: Detroit Union Demands Payment For 13th Month Every Year http://beforeitsnews.com/gold-and-precious-metals/2013/09/thursday-humor-detroit-union-demands-payment-for-13th-month-every-year-2529000.html

 

Beggars once again have become choosers it would appear. As Bloomberg reports, a Detroit city union is demanding that the bankruptcy judge reinstate a policy that enables a "13th" monthly check to be cut for pensioners every year. The policy, which was ended in 2011, cost the city $1.92 billion, according to a report commissioned by the city. We are just not sure whether this an "Onion" headline or real.

 

It's real according to Bloomberg News: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-27/detroit-union-seeks-to-revive-13th-pension-check-policy.html

 

'Tacit Agreement’

 

The 13th checks for retirees were allowed by the city almost every year for so long that they became a right that couldn’t be revoked unilaterally, according to a ruling by Doyle O’Connor, an administrative law judge with the employment relations commission.

 

“A practice that continues for three decades is a tacit agreement,” O’Connor said in an oral ruling in February. The city should have negotiated the change with the union as part of a new employment contract.

 

In its motion, the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees asked Rhodes to lift the automatic stay, which prevents lawsuits against the city while it is in bankruptcy. Because of the stay, O’Connor hasn’t made a written recommendation that the commission can use to force the city to restore the pension board’s power to issue the extra checks, the union said.

 

‘Damage Award’

 

O’Connor is retiring next month and the union said it wants him to be free to issue his recommendation to the commission, including “affixing any damage award” the city may owe for barring the 13th-check policy.

 

My head hurts...real bad.