White House to announce $300M in aid Friday to make Detroit safer, erase blight

[roo_ster]

White House to announce $300M in aid Friday to make Detroit safer, erase blight


http://www.freep.com/article/20130926/NEWS01/309260199/white-house-bankruptcy-aid-for-detroit-blight-removal

Nearly $300 million in aid for Detroit — from federal and state coffers, private businesses and charitable foundations — will be announced Friday as Obama administration officials visit the city to discuss what can be done to help eradicate blight, improve transportation, encourage new business and make residents safer.

The funding will include $150 million in blight eradication and community redevelopment, including $65 million in Community Development Block Grant funding — which had already been awarded over two years but could not be accessed by the city. An additional $25 million could help hire as many as 150 firefighters in the city.

Some $24 million in federal resources that had been tied up will go to repairing buses and installing security cameras, part of an overall $140-million investment in transit systems. And several charitable groups — the Ford Foundation, Kresge Foundation and Knight Foundation — will put millions into spurring entrepreneurship and creating jobs.

“Detroit historically had some major problems deploying grants and other resources, and so there could be a fair amount sort of stuck in the pipeline,” said Snyder, who was in Washington on Thursday. “Financial systems, accounting systems for the city of Detroit? They are a disaster.”

More tax dollars down the toilet.

They fouled their own nest, let them clean it up.

[Fitz]

White House to announce $300M in aid Friday to make Detroit safer, erase blight


http://www.freep.com/article/20130926/NEWS01/309260199/white-house-bankruptcy-aid-for-detroit-blight-removal

More tax dollars down the toilet.

They fouled their own nest, let them clean it up.

D-day can chime in, but it's my understanding that Detroit is already making a long, hard slog toward recovery on its own. It's slow and painful, but it's happening.

I've already seen a change in it.

[Tallpine]

Shouldn't we bomb Detroit and force a regime change? 

[SADShooter]

Shouldn't we bomb Detroit and force a regime change? 

No. Just threaten to bomb, and promise to ship guns to the residents rebels. That'll turn 'em around.

[Sergeant Bob]

No. Just threaten to bomb, and promise to ship guns to the residents rebels. That'll turn 'em around.

I think it would work as well in the country of Detroit as it did in Libya and Craptanistan!

[zxcvbob]

D-day can chime in, but it's my understanding that Detroit is already making a long, hard slog toward recovery on its own. It's slow and painful, but it's happening.

I've already seen a change in it.

Don't worry, Obama et al will give Detroit a bunch of tax money, then derail the recovery by micromanaging it.  It'll be just like Mogadishu eventually, which is the goal.

[Balog]

What do you want to bet a lot of those millions that are "stuck in the pipeline" were embezzled already?

[Perd Hapley]

D-day can chime in, but it's my understanding that Detroit is already making a long, hard slog toward recovery on its own. It's slow and painful, but it's happening.

I've already seen a change in it.

That would be a perfect reason for the fed.gov to get involved. Can't have recovery going on.

[HankB]

Since it's the House that controls the purse strings, I'd like to see an audit of where & how El Presidente is getting the money . . .

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

What do you want to bet a lot of those millions that are "stuck in the pipeline" were embezzled already?

thats just priming the pump for the looting about to begin

[roo_ster]

thats just priming the pump for the looting about to begin

Dingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingding!

[Scout26]

Yep, pretty sure the Detroit PTB, have already divvied it up to the connected pals and cronies.  Not one dime will be used to build or improve anything.  It will all be written off as "Outreach Efforts".


 

[Gowen]

Don't worry, Obama et al will give Detroit a bunch of tax money, then derail the recovery by micromanaging it.  It'll be just like Mogadishu eventually, which is the goal.

You mean they will shoot down a Black Hawk and drag the dead National Guard troops through the streets?

[zxcvbob]

You mean they will shoot down a Black Hawk and drag the dead National Guard troops through the streets?

Not that specifically, more like the current conditions in Somalia.

[Azrael256]

Not that specifically, more like the current conditions in Somalia.

I wouldn't be so quick to rule it out.

[vaskidmark]

Have any of you ever published a RFP/ITB for a government project?  $300 Million is barely enough to repaint city hall, or mow the grass in all the untended parks (so long as you do not insist on the clippimgs being collected and carted away).

It is also not quite enough to take the PTB from Detroit on a fact-finding trip to some mythical city that has risen from the ashes.

In many grant programs there is not even a full auditing required on an amount that small.

stay safe.

[JN01]

Shouldn't we bomb Detroit

If we did, could you tell the difference?