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The White House plan to revive struggling cities

Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, San Diego...a lot of cities have reinvented the city core over the past 20 years. If other cities can't figure out how to follow the blueprint of others, I don't see how the federal government's help will be of any....help.

Instead of investing in cities that are failing, why not invest in the cities that are already creating growth and jobs? Why should the Government continue its policy of rewarding failure and punishing success? This program is about as smart as paying unemployment, instead of paying the unemployed to learn new jobs and skills and compete?

The government needs to stay the heck out of all the state's business. No one, not a single high paid suit in DC could run an ice cream stand let along give advice on how to bring up a down trodden city! Have they looked in their own back yard, a total dump! All these fools are going to be looking for jobs soon so DC will go further down the toilet!

So what is this really about? If it's not about doling out more federal dollars or mandates, then what is it? Why is it that these cities are not able to solve these problems on their own if they have all of these people who supposedly already have all the answers? Most of that video was full of the usual focus-group-tested feel-good buzzwords. Blech. I can't tell what they are really offering.

As a resident of Portland, I am a beneficiary of the intelligent planning that now characterizes the local and regional governments that cooperate in making very liveable communities. Portland's residents did all of the hard work on their own without any support or interference from the Federal government. The best thing the White House can do for these test cities is to point them in the right direction by suggesting they take a look at the inner workings of communities such as Portland and consider some of their infrastructure and the decisions that were made in order to achieve recognition as a "strong city."

Meaningless drivel.

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