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Abukai08 · 12-05-2012, 09:20 AM

LiveLeak.com - Detroit councilwoman to Obama: You owe us a bailout

DETROIT (WJBK) -- The city of Detroit faces a major financial crisis and one member of city council thinks President Barack Obama should step in and help.

City Council member JoAnn Watson said Tuesday the citizen's support of Obama in last month's election was enough reason for the president to bailout the struggling the city.

"Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president and there ought to be a quid pro quo and you ought to exercise leadership on that," said Watson. "Of course, not just that, but why not?"

Nearly 75 percent of Wayne County voters pulled the lever for Obama in November.

The White House has expressed no plans to bailout the cash-crunched city that some experts say could run out of money by the end of the year.

The federal government has bailed out cities in the past, however. In 1975, President Gerald Ford extended more than $2 billion in credit to New York City to help it avoid a financial collapse.

I know this shouldn't come a surprise to me but... Wow... If she can be a councilwoman then I'm gonna go be a doctor... I thought the auto bailout did the trick for Detroit. Apparently they make a few cars there.

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Abukai08 The Anti-Terrorist Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Florida Posts: 1,347 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Detroit Councilwoman believes Obama owes Detroit a bailout for their votes. LiveLeak.com - Detroit councilwoman to Obama: You owe us a bailout DETROIT (WJBK) -- The city of Detroit faces a major financial crisis and one member of city council thinks President Barack Obama should step in and help. City Council member JoAnn Watson said Tuesday the citizen's support of Obama in last month's election was enough reason for the president to bailout the struggling the city. "Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president and there ought to be a quid pro quo and you ought to exercise leadership on that," said Watson. "Of course, not just that, but why not?" Nearly 75 percent of Wayne County voters pulled the lever for Obama in November. The White House has expressed no plans to bailout the cash-crunched city that some experts say could run out of money by the end of the year. The federal government has bailed out cities in the past, however. In 1975, President Gerald Ford extended more than $2 billion in credit to New York City to help it avoid a financial collapse. I know this shouldn't come a surprise to me but... Wow... If she can be a councilwoman then I'm gonna go be a doctor... I thought the auto bailout did the trick for Detroit. Apparently they make a few cars there. __________________ "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson- *To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.* "The whole of the Bill (of Rights) is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals.... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." (Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789)