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Originally Posted by grassfarmer
"City officials told Local 4 that Detroit was granted $15 million to help residents pay bills and their rent or find temporary housing for the homeless."
Folks lined up by the thousands to try and receive money they thought the city was going to give them. It is a sad state of affairs when folks who used to work for a living have to line up for non-existing money. So many are out of work and these big cities, and small cities also, and the stimulus money goes into the big pockets. What happened to those "shovel ready" jobs every politician was talking about?
There are solutions where the state can use this money to help business provide jobs for the jobless, but nothing ever seems to get done. Why is that?
Why is it that we are talking about mandatory health insurance payments when folks are out of work? Why is it that we are talking about "cap and trade" when it will increase taxes are reduce job opportunities for the unemployed? Why are we talking about $45,000 electric cars when folks don't have enough money to buy gas for their regular cars so they can look for work?
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Good question!
What are you going to do about it?
Don't forget the war. That takes away a lot of resources that could otherwise be used to invest in productive enterprise here.
