We will begin this morning with the city of detroit and your thoughts on the federal bailout for them. What is your take . Michigan residents, we want to hear from you let me begin with detroits mayor who was on the sunday talk shows and was talking about the prospects of a federal bailout. [video clip] i know the president has a lot on his plate. This will add tremendously to that. We are not the only city that is going to struggle through what we are going through. There are over 100 major urban cities having the same problems we are having. We may be one of the first. We are the largest. The way absolutely will not be the last year so, weve got to set a benchmark in terms of how to fix the cities and come back from the strategy from this tragedy. Governor rickan the nationn face and he was asked the city with the city be asking for a bailout. [video clip] expect one. The state cannot be allowed the city of detroit. Is not just about putting more buty in the situation Better Services to citizens and accountable government. What we are doing at the state State Government and i would ask the federal government the same thing targeted programs with real value to citizens. One example, we are partnering with the city, state, and eral government on taking deployable to obtain and dollars taking some of the 78,000 abandoned structures down that have been going on for years. The federal government bailed out General Motors and chrysler and it worked out pretty well. Our you saying it is just simply not on the table . If the federal government wants to do that, it is always there option. The way i view that, i want to partner with all levels of government and focus on services to citizens. But you as a state official, you would not ask the federal government. Again, i do not view that as the right answer. Host that was michigans government governor saying no, he does not view as the right answer. There are questions about whether or not the president should be allowed the city of detroit. On our facebook page, alan says allan lamb says Michael Anderson says Brian Johnson matthew tweets in if the federal government does not bailout of detroit there will be a huge rush of munis going bankrupt. Start calling in now. Host michigan residents, we want to hear from you. What do you think . We want to get your take from michigan. Here is from the detroit free ss he says thisece, on joe biden being asked whether or not the administration will consider a bailout for the city of detroit, and he said we dont know how the federal government can help detroit. That is what he told them is nbc friday. Stephen henderson writes host this from the Detroit Free Press the stephen henderson. Scott, what do you think . Is a perfectit example of the Public Employee unions just completely destroying the place. It has finally come to a head. It was never going to work. You are promising people things you are never going to be able to deliver. Host talking about the pensions specifically . Caller absolutely. That is what got them so far in the hole. The Public EmployeeUnion Members and their pensions. This let me show you Washington Post politics piece. A federal bailout. Pensions not the problem, is what they say here. Host scott, what do you think . Caller who do they own the the money to . You are saying it is not the pension who do they owe . Let me make this point. Democrats have been running that city for so long, and liberalism and democrat liberalism, just to spend, spend, spend and never worry about the future. The future has arrived, and they are broke. I dont owe them or neither do any of the u. S. Taxpayers owe them one cent. Period. Int this from the piece the Huffington Post politics section. Host karo from michigan. Democratic caller. Caller thank you from cspan. I am calling from the northern part of the state. What i wanted to point out is the joints success in the tricounty area and that part of the state is so critical is sots success critical. A lot of the money gets spent throughout the state with tourism and travel and that sort of thing. Host do you think a bailout is warranted from the federal government . Caller i would not be asking for a bailout i do understand what people say about the history and the does go back a long way. But theyve got to figure out a way. And everybody is going to have to suffer through this. But we need the city to have some modicum of success so the rest of the state can share. Pressthe detroit free excuse me, this is from the National Review online. No bailout. This is what they write them their piece, similar to what they were saying you were saying. Says caller i would agree with the sentiment. Got key is when kevin orr there, anybody who had sense knew it was coming. It is not Like Companies have not emerged from bankruptcy before. Weve got chrysler and gm that did it. It was chryslers second time. If there is going to be an injection of federal dollars, it does set a precedent and it does set a poor example. You dont want other cities in the country to follow that example. Weve got three other counties and cities in the United States who are going through this. So, i would agree we need to go through the process. And Everyone Needs to take their medicine. And we are going to buckle down and figure out ways to move forward. The mistakes were made in past. Lifetime health care for retirees . You signed that deal . I want to shake that sales mans hand. Tot according everything. Com total municipal bankruptcy filing since 2010 reaches about 36 governing. Com. Jefferson county, alabama, harrisburg, pennsylvania. Names of cities you have heard before. Rand paul in politico says no government bailout for detroit. He will strongly oppose any attempt i president obama to bailout the city of detroit if that is something the president would decide to do. , nashville,k to lv tennessee. Democratic caller. All her cofor years i have been trying to get onto this particular Program Caller i have been trying to get into this program. Detroit is 80 black. It means something. All this time it has been making money be the workforce was moved into the city but the city is phenomenally rich with auto factories and all the things lee iacocca and ford people, all the chairmans of the board have amassed all over the years. The whites of the end and the city but the blacks own all of these things, the 10 of the city that is left. These people cannot have that much money and power. When you go into bankruptcy host what should happen . Caller what should happen, they are lining up the whole things. They will take these artifacts for little or nothing and auction them off. You do not get the full price. They make the fortunes that they amassed now they are making cars in tennessee. Detroit has always been the foothold for black people. Look at memphis, tennessee, another black city. A slave port. Same for new orleans. All these cities that were black, they have money lining up to take him. Republicans have a line drawn out through the sand. Right now we are taking and amassing host to avoid selling off the art which is something officials and detroit have talked about, to avoid that, do you think there should be a federal bailout . Caller certainly there should be a federal bailout. Automakers are in detroit. You bailed them out and they at generalnd look motors. Bail out detroit. It will come back. The cities will come back. Nothing is wrong with the cities other than the white folks have fled and they left it there. It is desolate. The place looks like a war zone. Nobody is there. No money. No economy. You can do anything. The money is there they are just getting ready to sell it off and we do not know about it with our eyes closed like it is nothing. Host your point about setting selling. Here is fox news. The Detroit Institute of art, the billiondollar collection, could it beheaded in the Auction Block to satisfy creditors . Emergency manager told fox it is configuring whether the collection could be considered city assets that could be sold to cover the longterm debt estimated at more than 14 billion. Lane field, illinois. Republican caller. Caller i do not think the government should just jump in and dig them out. The detroit has a lot of problems. The fact the population has diminished does not help. It even tougher to come up with a solution. I think they need to look at solutions. I think they need to go through bankruptcy and then divvy up what is left of figure out a way to go forward from there. Host jim. Wilson, North Carolina. Independent caller. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Charity starts at home. I really dont understand, republicans can go and rebuild countries and rebuild afghanistan and iraqi and give to of this money to egypt help their economy out, and when it comes to countries right here cities our country, we can do nothing for them. Like the guy said before. We bailed out General Motors and the car industry and they came back stronger than ever. I just dont understand republicans. From the free trade. It started also with republicans. I understand that bill clinton signed it but he signed it as a big partisanship as a bipartisanship, the same way that obama signed the extension of the tax breaks to the rich just to get something through. This has been pushed by republicans a long time. Let me finish very important. This was started. When you notice when george bushs father got in he used to say all the time this is the new world order, free trade will be all of this. Three free trade will be all of this. At is what they preach. As soon as he got in, he started it. Reagan really started it when he gave china the mostfavored nation status. But these people, the republicans are trying to make his country a one world order country where america is going to be the leader of the world as far as financially. Host we got that point. But what about the mismanagement of detroits the officials . Caller the mismanagement and there is mismanagement in every link government. They just did not have free trade free trade was not the fault of detroit. It was not the fault of detroit that congress and the republicans sent all the jobs overseas to make it a global market. Andill hurt some industries help some industries. You look at the medical industry and other industries, it is helping. Just answerr me one question. Where is my bailout . Print me up a million. Ron says why did they move manufacturing out of detroit to south carolina, mexico, and china . Because the unions priced them out of the market. Heard president obama former car czar, steven rattner, wrote in the New York Times about the possibility of a bailout. He says itbarts website and they say this. Host this idea on whether there should be a federal bailout for detroit. We are getting your take on that this money. Let me bring you some other news as well. Here is the front page of the Arizona Republic courtesy of the newseum. House citizenship pan houseeamers citizenship plan. Host we will be covering the hearing today here on cspan around 2 00 p. M. Eastern time on cspan 3. We will have coverage of that hearing. Front page of the Arizona Republic. The Washington Post on syria. Host also several papers this morning reporting general dempsey provided a memo to the administration about options in syria. In a letter to Senate Armed ServicesCommittee Chairman carl levin the chairman who requested a, general dempsey estimated the military price tag for using u. S. Troops to train and assist rebel forces from outside syria would be 500 million a year. Robust said more options, including establishing a nofly or buffering zone inside syria or containing the chemical weapons would cost at least a billion dollars a month and require ships, aircraft, and up to several thousand troops. Syria. The latest from the house this week taking up a defense appropriations bill. There is expected to be debate on the issue of syria and the nsa when that is brought up. Also from overseas, heres the headline in the world news section of the wall street journal host below that is a piece this morning from the washington saultsabout asault intensifying in the two biggest cities. From the Financial Times this morning, this is the headline morsi family accuses the armed forces of it napping mohamed morsi, e. G. s deposed president. They have not heard from him in 20 days. They are accusing the military of kidnapping him. On gun control, from the new york post. Mayors are quitting Michael Bloombergs antigun group. The mayors of rockford, illinois tv nashua, they cite the ad against politicians as reasons. Slammed ther has attack ads as ineffective Charles Schumer has slammed the attack ad as an effective. Ineffective. Should there be a bailout for detroit . Henry, michigan. Democratic caller. Where you located . Port huron, michigan. 65 miles northeast of detroit. Host what is your view . Caller this is gentrification gone wild. White people in this area have detroit ever since Coleman Young took over back in the early 1970s. They want to detroit and they will get it back for a penny on the dollar. Let me tell you, i want everyone listening to this to know in the state of michigan has effectively been suspended. The governor of michigan has 58 of the black population in cities and municipalities all over michigan under emergency financial management. Which means that they have all ofvely thrown out the elected officials that black people have elected and brought in their own people. Brought in his own people. I want to piggyback on the other journalists and pundits who said that whenever there is a Natural Disaster throughout the United States that has happened, the troika has ponied up just like anybody else to rebuild likeit has ponied up just anybody else to rebuild oklahoma, hurricanes in florida. Flood victims, we help them out. Now we have a little financial trouble caused by bankers, republicans. Those bankers are republicans. They are not black people who have the money and the power to do derivatives and all the other things that send this country to the brink of financial collapse. And now everybody around the country that guy from texas they in and says, no, elected politicians that put us in this position. Bankers put us in this position. We should get the funding that we have been subsidizing all of these small rural counties, all of these ears, why dont black people deserve to have their city supported and brought back . Because manufacturing has thedoned at the cities of short dash of detroit and it was a plan so why people can come back and buy it for anys on the dollar. Host pensacola, florida. Republican caller. Caller i believe the financial world financial woes are just the tip of the iceberg and we are going to see hundreds of mourners cities across country that will be filing for bankruptcy hundreds of more cities across the country that will be filing for bankruptcy. It is the result of the great society. The labor unions. And greed. All rolled into one. And that is my opinion. Thank you. Host to your point, the Detroit Free Press has this headline. That was posted july 22, it says host this is from the Detroit Free Press if you are interested in that piece about the situation in detroit. That cities saying they are not the only ones under a mountain of debt. Not the only city. I the way, the front page of , thistroit free press is what they have of the front page. Of course, the news of the new prints in england but next to 60 million project is eyed for riverfront. , a privateat story project. And the Pension Fund Case is in court. This is what a bankruptcy judge had to say. Host that is the latest on the bankruptcy and the possible restructuring, that whole process in detroit. We will keep taking your phone call to let me show you what else is in the news. From the wall street journal the Heritage Foundation and its political arm headed up i former senator jim demint, a republican. This piece by Patrick Oconnor says host that in the wall street journal if you are interested. I the way, a new study put the study either way, a new put the cost of cyber crime as as 10 times a previously estimated amount. Abortion, from the Washington Times a first in the nation law to outlaw outlaw most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be heard around six weeks has been blocked by a federal judge in north dakota. Host that in the Washington Times this morning. That to our question federal bailout for detroit . Jim, ohio. Independent caller. Caller good morning, greta. Go cspan. I was kind of up in the air until you read the managers report which put some actual numbers to it, unlock thats unlike the republican whiny babies who just want to blame someone else. Pensioners took no risk. They contributed to the fun. They are guaranteed. The state constitution says it cannot be touched. On the other hand, the bondholders take all the risk. There is no guarantee beyond the insurance, which is going to have to be paid because it is guaranteed. That is the bailout. The bondholders are going to have to take it in the butt. As for the pensioners, i think most of them would agree to a small restructuring in their pension to make up for the distance we cannot get from the are holders. That is my comment. Sandusky, michigan. Democratic caller. Caller i would like to make a statement first and then i would like to get out my thought. I have been waiting on the phone and i heard you read about egypt , and one or two items about detroit. I am 83 years old. I grew up in the city of each weight detroit. I was born in 1930 in the city of each point. Detroit i went