Posted on 05/05/2011 2:28:32 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
Hundreds Show Up For Bogus Job Fair May 4, 2011 1:10 PM
DETROIT (WWJ) – A text message promised a job fair that was supposed to be held Wednesday morning by Chrysler at Detroit’s Lafayette Tower. Crowds of people reportedly showed up – only to find out there never was such an event.
That included a client of Corrinda Washington, program director of Michigan Legal Services.
She told WWJ Newsradio 950 her client borrowed money for a ride to what she thought would be a shot at finding work.
“She said there were hundreds of people, that there were people getting off the bus in droves; that there were people getting dropped off, people getting out of cabs. When she was talking to me she was just saying, ‘Here are more people showing up’,” Washington said.
Recently, there have been other Metro Detroit job fairs advertised by word-of-mouth that also turned out to be false.
“It’s just really sad, because it just speaks to the desperation and the climate of unemployment. I think that it’s just a cruel practice,” she said.
Washington suggests that if you hear about a job fair, you should contact your local Michigan “Works First” office to verify that it is legitimate.
(The comments are most interesting and not to be missed! - LVD)
Michigan’s response will be to raise taxes. Suckers.
Just burn Detroit,,,,then bulldoze the ashes flat.
You were right, the comments are very good. #2 coment is awesome.
But next year they will eagerly line up to vote for their hope and change homie three or four times because after all “It’s Whity’s fault.”
I concur - they sound a lot like F.R.
First comment......
“THIS IS AWFUL WHY WOULD A IDIOT DO SOMETHING THIS DAMN STUPID”
This is why:
Excerpted from an excellent article about Detroit, titled “The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep” by M Labash.
Its recently resigned mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, he of the Kangol hats and five-button suits, now wears jailhouse orange as he’s currently serving a four-month sentence as part of a plea agreement for perjuring himself regarding an extramarital affair with his chief of staff, which yielded soupy love-daddy text messages that would make Barry White yak in his grave.
Those in Detroit who are neither recipients of sweetheart contracts nor Kilpatrick family members on the city payroll at inflated salaries think he got off easy. Because what led to the perjury was concealing an $8.4 million payout from city coffers to settle a whistleblower suit brought by cops who’d been fired for investigating, among other things, the murder of a stripper named Strawberry who, prior to her death, was allegedly beat up by Kilpatrick’s wife when she caught her entertaining her husband.
In a city often known as the nation’s murder capital, with over 10,000 unsolved murders dating back to 1960, the police are in shambles through cutbacks and corruption trials. (They have a profitable sideline, though, as one of the nation’s largest gun dealers, having sold 14 tons of used weapons out-of-state.) Their response times are legendarily slow.
Their crime lab is so inept that it has been closed. One Detroit man found police so unresponsive when trying to turn himself in for murder that he hopped a bus to Toledo and confessed there instead.
Detroit schools haven’t ordered new textbooks in 19 years. Students have reported having to bring their own toilet paper. Teachers have reported bringing hammers to class for protection. Declining enrollment has forced 67 school closures since 2005 (more than a quarter of the city’s schools). The graduation rate is 24.9 percent, the lowest of any large school district in the country. Not for nothing did one frustrated activist start pelting school board members with grapes during a meeting. She probably should’ve reached for something heavier.
An internal audit, which was 14 months late, estimates next year’s city deficit to be as high as $200 million (helped along by $335,000 embezzled from the Department of Health and Wellness Promotion). With a dwindling tax base – even the city’s three once-profitable casinos are seeing a downturn in revenues (the Greektown Casino is in bankruptcy) – the city has kicked around every money-making scheme from selling offownership rights to the tunnel it shares with neighboring Windsor, Canada, to a fast food tax. It’s perhaps unsurprising that Detroit now has the most speed traps in the nation.
It also has one of the highest property tax rates in Michigan, yet has over 60,000 vacant dwellings (a guesstimate–nobody keeps official count), meaning real estate values are in the toilet. Over the summer, the Detroit News sent a headline around the world, about a Detroit house that was for sale for $1. But it’s not even that uncommon. As of this writing, there are at least five $1 homes for sale in Detroit.
The city council has been such a joke that one former member demanded 17 pounds of sausages as part of her $150,000 bribe. Its prognosis for respectability hasn’t grown stronger with Monica Conyers, wife of congressman John Conyers, taking the helm. She has managed to get in a barroom brawl, threatened to shoot a mayoral staffer as well as have him beaten up, and twice called a burly and bald fellow council member “Shrek” during a public hearing. But with all the problems facing the city, the council still found time to pass a nonbinding resolution supporting the impeachment of George W. Bush.
How bad is Detroit? It once gave the keys to the city to Saddam Hussein.
Over the last several years, it has ranked as the most murderous city, the poorest city, the most segregated city, as the city with the highest auto-insurance rates, with the bleakest outlook for workers in their 20s and 30s, and as the place with the most heart attacks, slowest income growth, and fewest sunny days. It is a city without a single national grocery store chain. It has been deemed the most stressful metropolitan area in America. Likewise, it has ranked last in numerous studies: in new employment growth, in environmental indicators, in the rate of immunization of 2-year-olds, and, among big cities, in the number of high school or college graduates.
Anyone still left in Detroit is cutting theri own throat.
I remember visiting Detroit on Thanksgiving as a boy in 1950. Watching the parade (sponsored by Hudson’s department store?), sipping hot Vernor’s hot (yes hot) ginger ale. It was altogether pleasant.
It’s sad that the people of Detroit are totally unaware that they have helped as much as anyone to create the economic morass in their city.
One thing this does show is that even the down-and-out still want to work. The policies of Michigan, Washington and the Federal Reserve have all conspired to keep them poor and stupid.
bttt
My parents and grandparents all have their stories of a brighter, better Detroit. It was a different world. My MIL worked for a Sanders ice cream parlor...and locked it up at night before *walking* home. My FIL graduated from Cass Tech when it was a world-renowned school.
Just this morning the Detroit News published a story detailing how $7,000 was spent on business cards for the Detroit library personnel...including clerks and janitors because they were “library ambassadors.”
Detroit is a bleeding cancer on the state. It should’ve been allowed to die a long time ago but we keep shoveling in the money.
This is what happens when you let “the people” vote to raid the treasury for themselves.
“Just this morning the Detroit News published a story detailing how $7,000 was spent on business cards for the Detroit library personnel...including clerks and janitors because they were “library ambassadors.””
Total waste considering 47% of Detroit residents are functionally illiterate.
Put the Osama Bin Laden Monument and Memorial Library there......and they will come.
Leni
I thought it was one of those bogus events where they invite a bunch of wanted felons and then arrest them when they arrive.
Some sick bastard exploiting human misery for a laugh.
The only solution to detroit is to bulldoze it, and perhaps one day return it to farmland. The people of detroit need to find new places to live and they need to realize that being democrats is what caused their city to die in the first place.
That’s why my economic dream targets the regulatory agencies first with extreme prejudice. The regulatory agencies kill jobs. Once they’re reigned in or destroyed, jobs will be created and we can start cutting away the entitlements.
If they really want to draw in the crowds put a full page ad in the Detroit newspaper for another job fair.
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