[freekitty]

Obama’s audacity of hype is exactly what it is.

[Rumplemeyer]

Gary was build by US Steel Co., when the mills closed so did Gary, sad but the way it is, the United Steel Workers and their good friend the Democrats made the mill unprofitable with wages and environmental regulations.

Just think they can make steel in India and ship it to the USA cheaper than we can make it here, and Jug Ears wants CAP Trade, and India is going to say...no.

[DogBarkTree]

It’s encouraging to know that the British press is not impressed and they know a naked emperor when they see one.

[Vince Ferrer]

The author is counting on a gullible audience of foreigners to peddle blame for Gary’s destruction on the refusal of level headed people to fund their dysfuncional city any longer. Gary, and other rust belt cities, have been self destructing for decades, and any money spent now is completely wasted. If I were in Gary, I would open up a bus tour of the ruins for Europeans.

[VeniVidiVici]

Gary, Indiana is like an eagle poised to fly," mayor Rudy Clay tells me, "All we need is the air of the fiscal stimulus beneath our wings and we'll soar once again and make America proud."

Goebbels has been reincarnated.

[GeronL]

The mayor is an idiot. He thinks a little government debt spending thrown his way will let his town fly again.

what an idiot

[truthguy]

Gary, IN and many cities and communities across the country are suffering the effects of deindustrialization. This has been caused by many factors.

The big problem is that the people who have caused the problem keep getting reelected by the same people who are themselves suffering. This is because those suffering cannot establish the link between cause and effect.

Cites like Gary, Detroit, Cleveland, and many others have become very unfriendly to Businesses who might want to expand. The elected officials and the electorate have enacted policies that chase business away rather then being friendly. The cities have done next to nothing about the crime and decay in their mists and find problems with Capitalism itself. They tax business out of the area and then plead with the Federal Government to help them out.

In the meantime the lunatics in Congress enact every policy they can to discourage business from operating in the US. Look at the idiotic regulations about to be enacted with regards to carbon emissions. This will drive what industry we have left from our shores. This Waxman is a madman, plain and simple. He must be stopped.

[Hardastarboard]

"Gary, Indiana is like a eagle cesspool poised to fly,"

Quote corrected to reflect reality.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There are three levers the federal government can pull in the face of this crisis: monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and bank recapitalisation

Seems he's yanking awfully hard on the "outright nationalization" lever, too. AND pushing terribly hard on the "appease our enemies" button.

[upchuck]

"Gary, Indiana is like an eagle poised to fly," mayor Rudy Clay tells me,...

Then the Mayor says...Top of his wish list are automatic weapons and Kevlar vests for the police, and some more police to tote them: last year, in this, the crime capital of the Midwest, he had to lay off police officers due to shortage of funds.

Gonna be the most well armed eagle in all of mankind.

Gary is a pit. Lots of reasons why. The liberal political establishment hasn't helped.

[upchuck]

I note again: What a shame we have to read foreign publications to get the real skinny.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

My grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins all lived in Gary, Indiana. In the 50’s and 60’s we frequently would gather there for family functions - it was fairly nice.

Now I wouldn’t visit that place on a bet. It’s a slice of the third world that grew where a once thriving town existed.

GO CUBS GO!

[Oztrich Boy]

What would a Brit reporter know? US media is reporting incredible, and I use the word advisedly, success for the first 100 days

[kitkat]

Somebody tell me just what four million would buy to start a new company to employ all the able-bodied residents of Gary, Ind., especially since it wouldn’t even pay for new police and their equipment for very long.

[littlehouse36]

In the first place, the mechanisms for turning public money into private-sector jobs are as crumbly as the concrete that holds up America's freeways.

Ouch.

[littlehouse36]

"Historically, our model has a bit more of a boom-bust element to it, but every time we've had these busts we came roaring out. If we change to become more like Europe, sure we'll stabilise. But we'll never be the growth engine and the protector of the world again."

Double ouch.