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The plan is to use government largesse to drive mini-recoveries in the cities, providing tax credits for new businesses to move in, and more federally funded pre-K schooling, mandated increases in the minimum wage, and focused job training for the jobs he dreams might someday appear in their midst.

I get it. What has failed so miserably on the national level will now be expanded to the local level.

If the "leaders" of the failed cities are invariably corrupt democrats(marxists) and the leaders of the failed national programs are corrupt marxists bringing bags full of taxpayer money, one can almost predict what will happen.

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IFF (and that's a big iff) such a program would work, it would be great. Get people off welfare and into productive employment (not government make-work), paying taxes and gaining self-respect, and that would be a great step forward. However, the chances of it working are very low, since it will be government-run.