Doing what’s good for America, generally means jobs will be created as a result. I’m not one of those who assumes that people are on welfare, food stamps and unemployment are just plain lazy (I’m a Michigander after all).
Its why I go against the conservative grain in select situations like spending taxpayer money to build a second bridge across the Detroit river. It isn’t specifically for Detroit but Detroit will benefit greatly as a result. Its the second busiest freight crossing in America and easing the bottleneck and dividing traffic between two crossings will bring warehouses more traffic, truck plazas, duty free shops etc. They’ll be jobs in one of the most economically depressed areas of the city. A lot of the residents of Del Ray see it as their ticket out of that neighborhood and into potential jobs.
Basically I see it as good for America and for the state with Detroit reaping the benefits as a result rather than as a primary goal.
In the case of Compton, what is truly needed is obviously different but I’m sure that there’s something of value there that could be exploited with the city reaping the benefits. Cities grow where they are for a reason. We need to look at what spurred growth in the cities and concentrate on that and not giving handouts. Give them a hand up instead.
I’ll disagree with your Compton statement. The reason cities grew where they did were usually geographic convenience and resources. Those reason are no longer really as relevant as they had been. The Detroit case with the bridge won’t transfer to most of the cities filing bankruptcy.