This is Michigan central station. I'm almost positive it's where the "foot sticking out of the ice" picture was taken. Couldn't have picked a better picture of blight.
Posted on 10/20/2011 4:12:40 PM PDT by marty60
Taking aim at minimum wage laws, union protections, and even local building codes, Herman Cain has put the finishing touches on the last missing piece of his signature “9-9-9” plan – an elaborate proposal to create “opportunity zones” in inner-city America that the GOP presidential candidate will unveil during a major campaign appearance in Detroit on Friday morning.
Cain hinted at the move during Tuesday night’s GOP debate in Las Vegas. He and his aides hope the details they provide about their plans to encourage growth in impoverished areas will deflect the surge of recent criticism branding “9-9-9” as unfair to the poor.
But details about the opportunity zone proposal, as obtained in advance by Fox News, will likely make “9-9-9” more, not less, controversial, particularly with organized labor.
To qualify for zone status under Cain’s plan, a given jurisdiction will have to enact policies the unions consider anathema – such as the elimination of the minimum wage, the provision of school vouchers, or the declaration of a zone as a “right-to-work” area.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The main ideas behind empowerment zones—using tax incentives to encourage business investment, improve employment opportunities, and stimulate economic growth in certain geographical areas—originated in the late 1970s. Geoffrey Howe, a member of the British Parliament, announced the first “enterprise zones” in 1978 to help improve economic conditions in the dock districts of London. The system implemented in England reduced government restrictions in order to encourage the formation of new businesses in impoverished areas. It met with limited success, however, because it did not include provisions for improving the infrastructure of the urban areas, which was found to be necessary for the new businesses to succeed.
In the United States, the zone concept gained its first supporters among leaders of the Republican Party, which advocated an overall reduction of government influence. In the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan included enterprise zones in the urban policy platform for his presidential campaign, and Senator Jack Kemp introduced the first bill featuring enterprise zones in Congress. The idea gradually expanded its base of supporters to include more liberal members of Congress, such as Democrats Robert Garcia and Charles Rangel of New York, as well as the leaders of prominent minority organizations, such as the National Urban League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
The first enterprise zone legislation enacted in the United States came in 1987, with the passage of Title VII of the Housing and Community Development Act. Rather than providing tax incentives, the act was intended to relax federal regulations and coordinate the efforts of existing programs in the designated zones. Although the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) received applications from 270 distressed communities for assistance under the program, it never designated any enterprise zones. When George Bush became president, he also voiced his support for the idea of creating enterprise zones to revitalize urban areas. Several bills were introduced during his administration, but Bush vetoed the two that passed because they included tax increases. This development meant that no federal enterprise or empowerment zones were created in the United States during the 1980s, despite widespread support for the idea
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Free men should have the ability to work without paying a political organization/A Palladin for that basic right.
Free men should be able to offer their labor to the highest bidder, no matter how low that bid is.
Free men are not made free by the MANIPULATION of any TAX CODE
I’m willing to wait for more details.
Interestingly enough in 1984, Current Mayor Bing was awarded by President Ronald Reagan the National Minority Small Business Person Of The Year.
I don’t know. But I would bet some smart a** attorney would argue that the people working in the empowerment zones were being discriminated against by vertue of where they live.
Never underestimate a Leftie Lawyers ability to make a case.
If it were up to me, I’d make the whole city a duty free zone.
If it were up to me, I’d make the whole city a free fire zone.
I agree, we will see what it ACTUALLY contains tomorrow morning. Just a heads up for everyone.
The guy that developed this plan in the 70’s stabbed Thatcher in the back because she refused to submit to the Euro for Britain. Thatcher was RIGHT!
His actions forced her resignation.
“If it POs labor unions, it must be good.”
You beat me to it! lol!
Odd now we have supposed “Conservatives” pimping for the Unions.
Guess you missed it but Reagan had the exact same thing in his tax plan
http://www.enotes.com/biz-encyclopedia/empowerment-zones
“Angering Unions...”
Hmmmmm.
Honestly, if the very end of the world pi$$ed off criminal, Union dead a$$es, I ‘d have to give some thought, if after all, maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing....
So now we have supposed “Conservatives” for Perry pimping for the Unions.
Odd how the Perrybots skip right by the fact Reagan had the exact same thing in his tax plan
http://www.enotes.com/biz-encyclopedia/empowerment-zones
This is Michigan central station. I'm almost positive it's where the "foot sticking out of the ice" picture was taken. Couldn't have picked a better picture of blight.
Something tells me this won’t be the final touch up. It will be interesting to see what it becomes after both houses of Congress get through with it, and President Cain signs it, if it gets that far.
Do you seriously think that only blacks live in poverty? Cain seems like a fair minded, God fearing man, and unlike our ‘divider in chief’, I think Cain really would like to unify this country.
Yes I know. He doesn’t talk about his religion other than to say he Baptist.:
Antioch is a member of the National Baptist Convention USA Inc., a denomination in which some churches do not ordain women. The denomination’s leadership publicly broke with King over his civil rights activism. But like many black Baptist churches, Antioch has developed a strong social justice component to its ministry over the years. It offers ministries for people suffering from drug addition and those infected with HIV/AIDS, and it has been a Sunday stopover for black politicians running for office.
I don’t get the minimum wage thing though. If people aren’t making a living wage how do they survive.
Welfare,Food Stamps, Section 8 housing. Just to many holes in this one too.
Good Grief.
Detroit is the armpit of America. that’s for sure.
You think they would go for an empowerment zone with right to work and below min wage jobs. Hell no. But boy those unions sure are doing wonders for their economy/S
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