3:05 PM, January 23, 2014
...The proposal dovetails (click here) with two other immigration plans Snyder offered in his State of the State speech last week: opening an Office for New Americans to attract and help immigrants better adjust to life in Michigan and designating the state as an Employer Based or EB5 center to expedite visas and permits for immigrants who want to open businesses in the state with investments of at least $500,000 and 10 employees.
“Let’s ask the federal government to change regulations to bring in highly skilled immigrants to the state,” Snyder told the Free Press on Wednesday. “We’d like to see 50,000 immigrants over five years coming to live and work in Detroit.”...
First he removes democracy from Detroit with an emergency manager, then he asks the court to close out pensions and now he wants to repopulate Detroit with immigrant labor. And Why? Because he believes ANY immigrant is more intelligent and more ambitious than any American.
What jobs?
Detroit has got jobs?
Then advertise through employment offices and agencies around the country and have Americans fill the jobs and settle in Detroit.
This plan of Snyder's is bizarre. He expects to go to DC and have the law changed so 50 thousand visas are dedicated to, not just Michigan, but one city. Amazing. The people of Michigan can't possibly put him back in office. He hasn't got a clue to what he is doing. As a private sector CEO the brain trust of Michigan was enough for him to sell a company grown by Michigan grad students to a major Wall Street pharmaceutical firm. But, when it comes to giving jobs to that very brain trust in Michigan or otherwise in the USA he wants immigrants to fill the city of Detroit.
I think I've heard it all now. I think this closes the book on new schemes of politicians. Snyder is a very strange man that actually is burdened by the very thought of democracy. He really needs his own little island so he can be dictator. Maybe an artificial one like "Palm" in Abu Dhabi. Given this is Michigan he could call his island "Melting Pot Peninsula." He could locate it on Lake Superior between the USA and Canada.
"The Century Foundation" has a blog entitled, of all things, "Reinventing Detroit." This is their vision for Detroit.
JACOB ANBINDER
JULY 22, 2013
3. Incentivize land-use transfers
4. Create a regionally focused transit system
Transit advocates have proposed shiny new toys like a light-rail system for Woodward Avenue.
Immigrants. Did any of them attend Michigan State or the University of Michigan? Maybe Snyder can start there.
He has a major US city with the Mayor and Council mostly mute to any future plans for it. He has instilled bankruptcy on a major US city and now he has a dreamscape of magically wonderful immigrants ready to be picked from a tree to make their dreams come true in Detroit.
The new immigrants are to come bearing gifts to Snyder of a half a million a piece. 50,000 immigrants coming to Detroit with a half a million each. That would be $25,000,000,000 US. $25 billion for Snyder to build his city on the hill. Amazing. Simply amazing. I didn't know the USA immigration department asked for a down payment of $500,000 in order to apply for a Visa.
The corruption his man sees as legitimate is unbelievable.
Why would any business person simply believe "If they built it, they would come?" That is the problem in Detroit. There is a very poor economic base. If immigrants came into a blighted and depleted city in hopes of making their dreams come true, they simply end up as bankrupt as the city is.
The way it usually works, is that the city and/or state has a reinvestment plan and offers entrepreneurs the opportunity of grants or matching funds to reinvigorate the economy.
I have to admit, if nothing else when Snyder dreams he dreams big. Well, there he goes outsourcing hope. Detroit is not Monacco, governed by Prince Albert where immigrants can wager in hopes they will not lose their half million. I realize there is a casino or two in Detroit, but, last I looked they weren't seeking immigrants to come to their tables with a half million US in their fists.
...The proposal dovetails (click here) with two other immigration plans Snyder offered in his State of the State speech last week: opening an Office for New Americans to attract and help immigrants better adjust to life in Michigan and designating the state as an Employer Based or EB5 center to expedite visas and permits for immigrants who want to open businesses in the state with investments of at least $500,000 and 10 employees.
“Let’s ask the federal government to change regulations to bring in highly skilled immigrants to the state,” Snyder told the Free Press on Wednesday. “We’d like to see 50,000 immigrants over five years coming to live and work in Detroit.”...
First he removes democracy from Detroit with an emergency manager, then he asks the court to close out pensions and now he wants to repopulate Detroit with immigrant labor. And Why? Because he believes ANY immigrant is more intelligent and more ambitious than any American.
What jobs?
Detroit has got jobs?
Then advertise through employment offices and agencies around the country and have Americans fill the jobs and settle in Detroit.
This plan of Snyder's is bizarre. He expects to go to DC and have the law changed so 50 thousand visas are dedicated to, not just Michigan, but one city. Amazing. The people of Michigan can't possibly put him back in office. He hasn't got a clue to what he is doing. As a private sector CEO the brain trust of Michigan was enough for him to sell a company grown by Michigan grad students to a major Wall Street pharmaceutical firm. But, when it comes to giving jobs to that very brain trust in Michigan or otherwise in the USA he wants immigrants to fill the city of Detroit.
I think I've heard it all now. I think this closes the book on new schemes of politicians. Snyder is a very strange man that actually is burdened by the very thought of democracy. He really needs his own little island so he can be dictator. Maybe an artificial one like "Palm" in Abu Dhabi. Given this is Michigan he could call his island "Melting Pot Peninsula." He could locate it on Lake Superior between the USA and Canada.
"The Century Foundation" has a blog entitled, of all things, "Reinventing Detroit." This is their vision for Detroit.
JACOB ANBINDER
JULY 22, 2013
...But today’s news of a new study (click here) on economic mobility from researchers at Harvard and Berkeley shows that effective solutions could be far simpler.
The study, which found Detroit to be below average in the likelihood of its citizens experiencing upward mobility, establishes several commonalities for governments that do it well. Mixed-income neighborhoods, strong civic engagement, and good schools and public transportation are all elements of environments that allow poor people to become middle- and upper-middle class.
So while right-sizing and urban farming are both interesting proposals, it’s clear there are several far more practical solutions Detroit could seek to get itself back on its feet post-bankruptcy. Here are four relatively quick fixes:...
Mixed Income Neighborhoods does not mean Snyder goes on a fishing expedition to find immigrants with wealth to populate and build a new city. It means THE STATE invests in the redevelopment of a city to provide vital infrastructure for people to begin again.
1. Implement “tax choice”
2. Reinstate the residency requirement
Make Detroit city workers live in Detroit.3. Incentivize land-use transfers
4. Create a regionally focused transit system
Transit advocates have proposed shiny new toys like a light-rail system for Woodward Avenue.
It’s a sexy subject, but Detroit’s biggest transit issue is far more mundane than a lack of trains. It’s that, for political and geographic reasons, there isn’t one single bus system serving the Detroit area. DDOT runs the buses within the city, while SMART, a separate authority, operates routes within the near suburbs and from those suburbs to downtown Detroit.
The problem with this arrangement is that many of the Detroit area’s major employment centers are actually in the suburbs, as this map from the organization Reconnecting America shows. If a commuter lives in Detroit but works in Warren or Dearborn, taking public transportation to their job requires changing bus systems at the city limits.
He has not got one clue about what he is doing.Immigrants. Did any of them attend Michigan State or the University of Michigan? Maybe Snyder can start there.
He has a major US city with the Mayor and Council mostly mute to any future plans for it. He has instilled bankruptcy on a major US city and now he has a dreamscape of magically wonderful immigrants ready to be picked from a tree to make their dreams come true in Detroit.
The new immigrants are to come bearing gifts to Snyder of a half a million a piece. 50,000 immigrants coming to Detroit with a half a million each. That would be $25,000,000,000 US. $25 billion for Snyder to build his city on the hill. Amazing. Simply amazing. I didn't know the USA immigration department asked for a down payment of $500,000 in order to apply for a Visa.
The corruption his man sees as legitimate is unbelievable.
Why would any business person simply believe "If they built it, they would come?" That is the problem in Detroit. There is a very poor economic base. If immigrants came into a blighted and depleted city in hopes of making their dreams come true, they simply end up as bankrupt as the city is.
The way it usually works, is that the city and/or state has a reinvestment plan and offers entrepreneurs the opportunity of grants or matching funds to reinvigorate the economy.
I have to admit, if nothing else when Snyder dreams he dreams big. Well, there he goes outsourcing hope. Detroit is not Monacco, governed by Prince Albert where immigrants can wager in hopes they will not lose their half million. I realize there is a casino or two in Detroit, but, last I looked they weren't seeking immigrants to come to their tables with a half million US in their fists.
