Quote Originally Posted by Wesley Mouch View Post
Hype, we have received promises 'beyond agreeable soundbite rhetoric' in the past. It was the promise that we'll leave your pathetic town and go where commerce is welcomed. Comerica -> Texas. KMart -> Chicago. GM -> Mexico. American Axel -> Mexico.

Nobody signs 'community benefits agreements' unless there's a company benefit. Right now, there's little benefit to most companies staying in Detroit.

Where you do get community benefits agreements is from companies that must be in Detroit. Marathon for example. They have millions to billions invested in SW Detroit.

And here's the real sad part. Who benefits? Mostly its the Don Bardens and Bobby Fergusons. Well congratulations! With the help of Jesse Jackson, you got the opportunity to donate to Operation Push in Chicago. And you got some over-inflated contracts given to the friends of politicians. Your CBAs play only into the hands of black crony capitalists that have hurt Detroit badly.

Here's the fact. You can't manipulate the market. You can set rules all day long about who gets how much and how they have to invest in what you want them to. But unless you really create a society in Detroit where educated and motivated workers make real stuff, you're just moving deck chairs around on a sinking ship.

Oh, so you favor killing charters to save education. Brilliant. More union power for city workers? Brilliant. No to Edison to fix streetlights, we've got it under control with our lighting department who hire the right people? Brilliant. A new small business in Richmond with new, efficient ways of laying sewer pipes? Too bad, you're don't look like us. Do business in Detroit, but only if you give bribes to my friends [[CBAs)? Brilliant.
That post is borderline brilliant.