Detroit Mayor Duggan: Obama 'very interested' in plans to bring jobs to city

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Source: Detroit Free Press

EAST LANSING — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says President Barack Obama is “very interested” in his plans to bring jobs to Detroit and wants him to present a written plan to the White House within 90 days.

“I’ve got some work to do,” Duggan told reporters after dining on salmon and rice over lunch with Obamaat the Michigan Biotechnology Institute at Michigan State University.

“I laid out some very specific economic strategies,” and “he was very interested,” Duggan said. “He asked me to flesh out some details,” and give him “a formal proposal in 90 days.”

Obama and Duggan were joined at the lunch by White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and Don Graves, Senior Adviser at the National Economic Council.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20140207/NEWS06/302070107/Obama-Duggan-lunch-Michigan-State-University

[Demeter]

1. You don't want to know what I think of this pair

My city needs help, and that ain't it. Neither was the farm bill the President had to nerve to drag out here to sign, and as for Debbie Stabenow....the less said, the better.

[vdogg]

2. So...

You seem to have a lot of animosity to people actually trying to come up with a solution, what is it that you wish for them to do? I'm asking honestly here because both measures sounded like relatively good ideas to me. I haven't lived in Michigan for over a decade though so I may be out of touch.

[Demeter]

3. My dear newbie

If you are as new to the struggles of Detroit, the city I was born and raised in, and all my family, as you are to Democratic Underground, then let me assure you, a "solution" for the 1% is nothing of the kind for the other 99.

And this is NOTHING like a solution for the 99%. Cui bono? That is the question to ask, in any crime.