Obama to Detail ‘Promise Zone’ Program to Aid Distressed Areas

New York Times ^ | 2/15/13 | Jackie Calmes

[Nachum]

CHICAGO — At a high school near his own neighborhood here, President Obama on Friday will provide new details about an initiative to select 20 communities nationwide as laboratories for better coordination of federal, local, nonprofit and private-sector investments to revitalize long-distressed areas, according to administration officials. Mr. Obama had announced his proposal to designate the so-called Promise Zones during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, but did not provide many details. As part of the effort,

[Nachum]

Kind of like the "Twilight Zone"...

They'll serve humans. -well done, medium or rare

[Nachum]

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[Nachum]

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[GOPJ]

Unlike all the other thousands of ‘programs’ and cash giveaways - I’m sure this one will work... /s

[Justa]

Potemkin villages.

[shoff]

Just a new spin on the old economic opportunity zone. It is a way for Obama to make sure our tax dollars are going to the “right” people.

I served on a case that was in an economic opportunity zone in Brooklyn. The stores couldn’t get theft insurance being in the “hood”. So they got cut rate government insurance.It covered up to$ 10,000 in losses per month. Wouldn’t you know it every month they were robbed of $9,999 worth of goods? They ran into trouble when they couldn’t prove they ever had $9,000 dollars worth of merchandise in their store.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Is this different from ‘promise land’? HALLELUJAH!

[concerned about politics]

He's going to bail out the diseased liberal areas. They've run out of other peoples money.
Apparently, he doesn't believe they're diseased enough.

[posterchild]

How can I get the constantly moving square meter or so around me declared as a Promise Zone?

[nascarnation]

Baraq

El Commandante Maximo

in the War on Poverty!!

bringing

the Great Society

to the 21st century!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

and you wondered how Detroit and Cleveland were going to get bailed out...

[Cowboy Bob]

I can guess some of the cities being bailed out: East St. Louis; Gary, IN; Camden, NJ; Newark, NJ, Detroit; New Orleans; Washington, DC.

I sense a pattern here...

[Gaffer]

Mixing state and private investments for education, health or welfare endeavors is the equivalent of being told “I’m only gonna stick it in a little bit...I promise.”

[griswold3]

Flashback-

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8747213.html

On enterprise zones, Jack Kemp is naive
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‘On enterprise zones, Jack Kemp is naive.

Jack Kemp is the most fair-minded person the present administration has, but on two accounts he appears to be naive — enterprise zones and home ownership.’

What could go wrong?

[shoff]

Yep same scam new name.