'What Exactly Am I Doing Here?' - Time's new Detroit blog

[daddeeo]

The State and Federal governments have been throwing money at Detroit for years. It's like the war of poverty.
Some things can't be fixed with just cash.

[Retroit]

The State and Federal governments have been throwing money at Detroit for years. It's like the war of poverty.
Some things can't be fixed with just cash.

Please forward to Obama, et al.

[lilpup]

The State and Federal governments have been throwing money at Detroit for years. It's like the war of poverty.
Some things can't be fixed with just cash.

Once again, and I'll repeat it until it sinks in through thick skulls: Michigan is a donor state and has been for decades. The Federal government [[i.e. the rest of the country) has not paid in net penny one to Michigan [[and therefore to Detroit). The only money poured into Detroit has been whatever Michigan has been able to spare.

[crawford]

Once again, and I'll repeat it until it sinks in through thick skulls: Michigan is a donor state and has been for decades.

But we are talking about Detroit, and Detroit has been a net recipient of massive amounts of federal largesse since the Johnson Administration. Just take a walk around downtown.

Millender Center
People Mover
Trolley Plaza
Riverfront Apartments
Corktown Industrial Park
Lafayette Park
Elmwood Park

All government projects, built with federal urban renewal dollars and basically no regard to market conditions.

[lilpup]

It's Federal largesse in name and appearance only - in reality it's Michigan dollars routed through the Feds to Detroit and no amount of semantic manipulation will change that fact.