GOP senators seek to prevent Detroit bailout

[Newsjock]

Source: Detroit News

A group of Republican senators wants to make sure the city of Detroit doesn’t get any taxpayer bailout.

A trio of senators authored an amendment Wednesday to a pending transportation bill to ensure no federal dollars be used to help state or local municipalities grappling with receivership.

“Detroit’s debt is a national poster-child of what can result when politicians enter into an unholy alliance with powerful unions at the expense of the local economy and the people who live there,” said sponsor Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. in announcing his amendment.

... “Whatever the financial fiasco, however, it’s the responsibility of the local governments to fix,” said amendment author Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. “The federal government will not step in, as this amendment makes clear, and bail them out. We’re not going to leave taxpayers on the hook because local governments can’t manage a budget and live within their means.”

Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130724/METRO01/307240119/GOP-senators-seek-prevent-Detroit-bailout

[adieu]

1. I don't understand their philosophy

We're the UNITED States. We're united so that when one falls, the rest of us pick up the slack and help that one up to their feet. It's like if your brother is down on his luck and is in hard times. You don't ignore family; you make your effort to help your family get back on track. We're the UNITED States, not the I'VE-GOT-MINE-NOW-FUCK-OFF States.

The previous Articles of Confederation basically encouraged the individual success and failure of the states independently and it was soon realized that the states would eat each other, allowing another country to take over.

What is happening now is they're letting Detroit die not so that another country can take over, but even worse, a private entity to take over. This privatization philosophy that the GOP has latched onto has gone too far. I foresee a major revolt and the Kochs and others will be seeing their heads on pikes.

[ELI BOY 1950]

13. Wake up...

United we are not...They care not about the hard working people of detroit...cops, firemen..PENSIONS GONE

they have the money and the middle class dosen't...

keep your head...the GOP are bad people...Remember that

[bemildred]

17. They are creating a drama to show that public employee unions are bad.

It is fake. There are public employee unions here and all over the world that work just fine.

It's a deliberate part of an ongoing attack on unions in this country that started under Raygun.

Edit: and you may be sure that once they have destroyed the unions, they will start in on civil service protections too.

[liberal N proud]

2. That is because what happened to Detroit is exactly what the GOP wants for all government.

[Rebellious Republican]

3. Ding Ding Ding!

They want to change the UNITED States of America to the INCORPORATED States of America. Their Utopia is to have a complete plutocracy.

[ceonupe]

7. Do you honestly belive Hillary Clinton and the DLC

Have a different outcome in mind?

Just remember she was on the board of Walmart during the push for cheap foregin manufacturing.

Bill Clinton with nafta, other free trade agreements and china's Trade polices including most favorite nation status.

Plutocracy is right. Question is does DU bandwagon like good little soldiers?

[Rebellious Republican]

8. I can only assume that since I was replying to liberal N proud,

you must have mistakenly posted to my my reply.

[ceonupe]

9. Sorry yeah did not mean to thread under u

Sorry but yeah I'm waiting to see the native change around here over the next year and a half once Hillary declares.

[Rebellious Republican]

10. No problem!

I am not sure that she will declare, but we will see, only time will tell.

[Iliyah]

4. Yep, gopers are threatening to shut down the government.

Besides that, they want the sequester to first do the massive harm to governmental programs and governmental jobs. Privatization - meaning the 1% completely control the USA.

Hip hip hooray!

[The Wizard]

5. Fascist scumbags

Bigots reprobates and sociopaths. They all should take the Herman Goering exit strategy.

[KansDem]

6. "We’re not going to leave taxpayers on the hook because..."

"...local governments can’t manage a budget..."

This...from the Party that lied us into war and put the cost on the nation's credit card...

[dusty trails]

11. I thought Detroit wanted a bankruptcy ?

Is that a bailout ?

[blkmusclmachine]

12. Of course they do.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. A New Hockey Arena for the Detroit Red Wings with $284 Million of State Money

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mich-board-oks-red-wings-193531527--nhl.html

Mich. board OKs new Red Wings arena in Detroit
By DAVID EGGERT (Associated Press) | The Associated Press

LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- A state board on Wednesday unanimously gave the go-ahead for a new Red Wings hockey arena in downtown Detroit to be paid for in part with $284 million in tax dollars even as the broke city works through bankruptcy proceedings.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and others defended against criticism that the $650 million project should be financed entirely with private money because the city currently can't provide basic services and retirees are facing cuts in their pensions.

The Whole story at the above link

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The Joe Louis Arena isn't that old, 32 years.

[Roy Rolling]

15. Move Detroit

To Iraq or Afghanistan. Then the GOP will spend billions to rebuild Detroit.

[L0oniX]

19. Detroit would get more help if it was turned over to Iran.

[tclambert]

16. Is it a bank? No. Would non-whites benefit from a bailout? Yes.

Would it involve the federal government actually helping? Yes. Would it save retirees' pensions? Yes. The GOP has to oppose it.

[L0oniX]

18. Detroit is not the only big post industrial city in big trouble.

They probably don't want to start a trend of bailing out cities with problems that THEY helped cause.

[bluedeathray]

20. "We’re not going to leave taxpayers on the hook because local governments can’t manage a budget"

No, we'll reserve that for your buddies. The TARP program kept corporate incompetence and greed afloat.

This is a preview of something we're going to be seeing more and more often.

[SunSeeker]

21. What killed Detroit was jobs going overseas, not unions, Orrin.

How do you propose the Detroit city council could have prevented that?