Detroit Takeover: Rick Snyder Will Announce State Takeover, Mayor Dave Bing Says
Source: Huffington Post
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder will announce on Friday that the state will takeover Detroit, Mayor Dave Bing said at a press conference on Thursday.
Bing said that the Governor told him the decision on Thursday, after weeks of uncertainty surrounding dire Detroit's financial situation.
Last week, a state review team found that the city was heading towards financial emergency. It recommended that an emergency manager be appointed to run the city and help balance its checkbooks.
Detroit has struggled with economic hardships for years and faces billions of dollars in debt. The city was hit hard by the recession, and subsequent cuts made to the auto industry.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/detroit-takeover-michigan-rick-snyder-dave-bing_n_2783330.html
Ol' crazy eyes is tightening his parties' fascist grip on Michigan.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Why are folks so apathetic!!?!?!?!?
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)the financial manager law last November. The 2013 legislature just passed another one that cannot be repealed by voters. This needs to be a taken to court. I don't understand why this legislation isn't being challenged.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)The problem is that the Republicans in the legislature can simply pass an amendment changing constitutional powers of the governor, essentially expanding his powers to do this.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)And that it fits the same pattern as Italy, Spain, Greece....having a non-elected technocrat put in charge of a city/state.
Subject to no vote, no recall, answerable only to whoever put him there.
What city is next?
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)"Goldman Sachs dominates the Federal Reserve.
Goldman Sachs dominates the World Bank.
Goldman Sachs dominates the IMF.
Goldman Sachs dominates the New York Stock Exchange.
And now Goldman Sachs is running the European financial system into the ground as another Goldman Sachs boy, Super Mario Monti, who has taken over Italy to finish off what is left of the Italian financial system.
Monti is also the head of the European Trilateral Commission as well as a Bilderberger.
And yet another Goldman Sachs boy is finishing off the job in Greece. "
http://www.newswithviews.com/Hodges/dave115.htm
also, Daily Kos did a run down of the GS guys running Europe.Which Kos got mostly from a Guardian article.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/26/1164745/-The-Goldman-Sachs-Project-to-take-over-Europe-nearly-complete
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)that be legal? Are you saying there is a monarchy in Michigan? I thought it was a Democracy and only the people decided who ran their buiness? What if the city of Detroit refused to pay any revenues to the State of Michigan. What do the people of Detroit do with their revenues and why are they in debt? What revenues does the City get from the Industry in this city or have they been giving them a free ride? The City of Detroit should not let Republican Thugs run their affairs. If they are, Dave Bing is letting them do it. This is a city with a Basketball Franchise, Football Franchise, Auto Industry and Music Industry. Something isn't right there.
what is going on. This city is 82 percent Black and most whites fled to the suburbs. For a City that has all those Industries, unemployment is very high for minorities and wages are very low. There is something wrong with this picture. I don't know what the leaders of Detroit is doing and I see the mayor himself has a very profitable business. Why is there high unemployment in Detroit? I bet it is among minorities also. That is just my hunch.
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)And now they just shit-canned the only high-ranking party official that was trying to STOP THEM.
Let's try to keep in mind that our former DEMOCRATIC SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE *ucked over
state workers and then was appointed TREASURER by Rick Snyder.
I campaigned for Virg Bernero. The party gave him NO MONEY, despite the efforts of Mark Brewer
and others to do so.
Ask Debbie Stabenow how much money she's got left in HER war-chest.
Michigan suffers from Third Way Democrat (DLC) syndrome, and it's getting WORSE, not better.
Macomb County's new County Executive actually appeared as a "Special Guest" at a FUNDRAISER for
Snyder:
http://macombpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/10/democrat-hackel-helps-republican-snyder.html
Progressives are running on fumes in this state.
OneAngryDemocrat
(2,060 posts)Just saying.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)This clown can't wait to sell off assets to his buddies while paying a 'city manager' $500,000 a year.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)DavidWD72
(34 posts)Only in Robocop Detroit was bought up by OCP. This tale has taken a bizarre twist in real life.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)We'd throw him a hell of a going-away party!
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Getting steamrolled, it seems.
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)which is headquartered in Detroit (Ford is in Dearborn and Chrysler is out in Auburn Hills).
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Afterall, the country bailed them out, And maybe all the former Motown greats could contribute to improving the schools and childcare there? Some positive actions by the "haves" could take place instead of all the bitching. I don't remember anyone rushing in to help Bing when he was asking for help years ago.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)bobhuntsman
(118 posts)A GENERAL STRIKE in Benton Harbor, Detroit, and the other cities that have had their democracy stripped away?
Make Snyder call out the fucking National Guard to collect the trash, etc.
Police Chiefs of these cities should arrest and jail the Emergency Managers.
Force the issue!!
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)meaning that they are personally working to take over whatever they can.
Various articles:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=tea+party+koch+brothers&form=MOZSBR&pc=MOZI