(Emerg mgr) Kevyn Orr wants to create blueprint for Detroit's future: 'This is democracy in action'

[alp227]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Kevyn Orr, the lawyer who will become Detroit’s emergency financial manager March 25, said today that his goal in helping fix the Motor City’s fiscal crisis will be to set up a blueprint for growth and reinvestment seen in other ailing big cities.

Orr, 54, cited Pittsburgh and Baltimore and even New York as examples of cities that have confronted crises and learned how streamlined local government can help foster business-climate turnarounds that, in turn, lead to population growth and higher revenues to pay for crucial public services for residents.

“Detroit is deserving of that,” Orr told Free Press reporters and editors in an interview today with him and Gov. Rick Snyder, who announced Orr’s upcoming appointment on Wednesday. “It is a great American city.”

He was careful not to oversell the improvement he hopes to bring to Detroit, saying his time here – 18 months or less – will be focused on a short-term stabilization of the city’s finances and establishing a longer-term model so the city can grow once he’s gone.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20130315/NEWS01/130315064/Kevyn-Orr-aims-to-create-blueprint-for-Detroit-s-future-This-is-democracy-in-action-

[MrScorpio]

1. Can you say, "Fire Sale?" nt

[caseymoz]

4. Yep. Parks. Utilities. Schools.

Everything must go!

And after all of his purportedly hard work, Detroit will end up declining into small-town status. Repubs wrote off Detroit in the 1970s after the race riots. They punished the town in the same way they punished academia for opposing the Vietnam War.

They'd like to kill city, and in fact, don't think it can or should be saved.

If I worked for the city, I'd go on a general strike. Or failing that, would sabotage this guy at every turn.

[Blue_Tires]

6. +1

[iandhr]

2. The fact that the city council...

... has dropped their challenge to the EM means that they are okay with Orr?

[Roy Rolling]

3. Here's a start...

How about recovering some of this money?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-14/only-wall-street-wins-in-detroit-crisis-reaping-474-million-fee.html

[Lindsay]

5. Yet another example

of conflating capitalism with democracy.

[Trillo]

8. That was my first thought.

It's pretty sickening when the smarter, more intelligent deliberately deceive the masses; then the masses in turn are blamed for being ill informed, and 'need more education.'

[bemildred]

7. I love it when unelected and imposed "Emergency Managers" start babbling about democracy in action.

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. Kevyn Orrwellian's democracy inaction.

[ReRe]

10. Privatization on a grand scale...

"EcoEng", (for Economic Engineering.) How's about "PrivaInc"? or PRINC (for Privatization, Inc).