(Emerg mgr) Kevyn Orr wants to create blueprint for Detroit's future: 'This is democracy in action'
Source: Detroit Free Press
Kevyn Orr, the lawyer who will become Detroits emergency financial manager March 25, said today that his goal in helping fix the Motor Citys 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 Orrs 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 citys finances and establishing a longer-term model so the city can grow once hes 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
(73,630 posts)caseymoz
(5,763 posts)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.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)... has dropped their challenge to the EM means that they are okay with Orr?
Roy Rolling
(6,906 posts)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
(3,276 posts)of conflating capitalism with democracy.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)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
(90,061 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)"EcoEng", (for Economic Engineering.) How's about "PrivaInc"? or PRINC (for Privatization, Inc).