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Do you think the City of Detroit should sell it's share of the Windsor tunnel to Canada?

 

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Tallmanok2 read my blog view my photos
Jun 25, 2008 | 5:52 AM

Selling off assets isn't a wise move because where do you get money from after it's sold? If you retain the tunnel the price will not go down, and you have a generating source of income.

Det313 read my blog
Jun 25, 2008 | 8:46 AM

yes i do. if it will save jobs do it in this environment we need another job lost like we need another hole in the head. we only gain 6 mill a year off of the tunnel and they want to give us 75 mill to LEASE it (please stop saying sale it) the governments have came together and agreed on it.(the US and Canada) + windsor. the only hold up is the City Councel. WOW. anything can happen but I hope they really think about the lives they are going to affect with their decission. P.S. if they would have listened to the budget or read it they would have known about the importance of this deal long ago, instead they didnt want to here it for personal reasons

Det313 read my blog
Jun 25, 2008 | 8:48 AM

...in this environment we need another LOST job (sorry)...

Tallmanok2 read my blog view my photos
Jun 25, 2008 | 11:39 AM

It is normal for the Mayor to use workers as pawns, as they really are worthless to him. When the bridge it out of the city's hands there is no lock on the fees that may change. Privatizing a city service only lines someone's pocket. I can't believe that losing Six Million a year is in the citizens best interest, as the Mayor has time and time again helped his friends before the people. If you sell the tunnel what do you do next year when the budget falls short? Six million will be missing right from the start.

teaspoone101 read my blog
Jun 25, 2008 | 11:55 AM

Yes sell all the Bridges, tunnels and all of Detroit to Canada, make Detroit a suburb of Canada, let em have the whole mess. If Canada wants all the bridges and tunnels, make Canada pay for those to Wayne county, but they have to take Detroit too (FREE) of course. Or no DEAL!

former_detroiter read my blog view my photos
Jun 25, 2008 | 12:57 PM

No, Kwame should be made to repay the 9 million+ to help the city budget. Also his salary for the years he has been in seeing as most of those years were spent in deceiving everyone.

jax276 read my blog view my photos
Jun 25, 2008 | 12:57 PM

Why not keep the tunnel and leave everything as is and then sell Kilpatrick? (I still can't call that thug a mayor). Or possibly just donate him if Detroit can't find any takers.

Det313 read my blog
Jun 25, 2008 | 2:16 PM

I cant respond to ignorance. but tall mkes a good point. it would take 12.5 years to get 75 mill off of the tunnel and they only want to lease it for 10 years. seams like a good deal to me

Tallmanok2 read my blog view my photos
Jun 25, 2008 | 2:30 PM

Det now keeping with just your latest spin here inflation and the right to raise prices will be out of the citizens hands. If you think there going to lose money you have lost your mind. I know were not supposed to be able to think this through, but were not the sheep you want. When they drive the price up, who will pay it? We all will because of higher prices charged for goods that come to Detroit through the tunnel.

bye-byeMI read my blog view my photos
Jun 25, 2008 | 3:49 PM

Why can't the State take it over?

Det313 read my blog
Jun 25, 2008 | 4:12 PM

all depends on the negotiation

Det313 read my blog
Jun 25, 2008 | 4:13 PM

bye bye
because the state does not own it

former_detroiter read my blog view my photos
Jun 25, 2008 | 7:59 PM

KK thinks Detroit s his personal pawn shop. He needs moolah to make up for his bad management so ..........let`s pawn it all. Only thing is he has no intention of buying anything back.

Mikey66 read my blog view my photos
Jun 25, 2008 | 9:04 PM

IM WITH FORMER DETROITER SELL IT ALL EXCEPT IT WOULD BE FOLLOWED BY THE BULLDOZERS

springthing read my blog view my photos
Jun 25, 2008 | 9:24 PM

KK thinks that the onlyl way to balance the city budget every year is by selling off parts of the city. I can't wait to see what we are going to sell next year. Maybe if he stop allowing his friends to overbid on city contracts and stop allowing bogus change of work orders the city wouldn't have such a large debt, but then Kwame's bank account wouldn't be as large either now would it.

springthing read my blog view my photos
Jun 25, 2008 | 9:35 PM

If Kwame laid off some of his body guards, his gardener, the pool guy. Stop taking so many trips to his vacation home in Florida (at the tax payer expense of course) we could probably save a kool mill right there. If he fire a couple of his personal lawyers from his dream team that's another mill!

Alexxi read my blog
Jun 26, 2008 | 8:41 AM

Isn't that income for the City of Detroit??
Now what clown came up with this idea??
Come on people how many more mistakes have to made before this city hits rock bottom!!!!

car7858 read my blog view my photos
Jun 26, 2008 | 8:53 AM

It's quite simple really; When the Mayor has ripped off too much money, he uses the city assets & city employees to foot the bills. I see the Mayor has no trouble hiring high end lawyers & people like Monica Conyers taking a trip to London for "city employee union talks". I know most of the corruption is well hidden in the new construction along the Riverfront, the New Center area and the Woodward Corridor because I worked there & saw it & reported it. Why that issue is ignored by the media & officials is beyond me but that is where the real money is being shuffled around while qualified city laborers are being side-stepped by major construction firms like Jonna Companies and inner-city departments like New Detroit. One can bet it goes all the way up to the thug Mayor & his cronies.

Alexxi read my blog
Jun 26, 2008 | 10:22 AM

Well now we got the clown and the clowns that helped him and fools that stand by him. I still confused on another issue that has covered up that young girl is dead why wasn't that wife arrested or investigated for the beating, what sort of country do we live in, and I can say Detroiter's should be angry with themselves in kk 1st year he fired 2 city workers for drinking on the job but suspended his relative with pay and he was still re-elected.

Alexxi read my blog
Jun 26, 2008 | 10:28 AM

And people should stop comparing kk to coleman coleman is dead, and another thing, kk has done anything that wasn't already is progress before he got in office, he has spent plenty money laughed in our faces at the same time and his mother and father and council buddies and police chief and officers no if that tell the truth it won't be anymore free rides at the tax payers expense, Why is he still here damn I hate to say that I'm from Detroit we're the laugh stock everywhere you go!!!!

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Tallmanok2

I am an American Indian. I developed Muscular Dystrophy in 2001 at the ripe old age of 44. I spend my days mostly on line and with my wife, and kids. I guess you could say I'm a Democrat but I am most interested in what any candidate can do to improve the world in which we live. I know I really spell poorly but I take solace in the fact that neither could Einstein. LOL

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