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Resolved and better services to detroiters. >> i look at it from afar, because i don't live there, but 18.9% and it's been that way since 2008. it's been above that. like how long are you going to wait before something is going to be done in detroit? i imagine the people there are running out of patience because this is desperate. >> it's a 30-day review cycle. we get outside experts to come in and make evaluation of the stat us and from there we can look to the emergency manager options or other options and move forward. but we need the mayor and the city council to work together and get thin...

Is that what you mean? >> yeah. in michigan we've had a statute for some time. we had some controversy and we're under the old statute now. this goes back to many years where we had emergency manager status. they can come in, work with the city and resolve the issues in a more efficient fashion than the traditional way. get to an emergency like this, the traditional way wasn't working. >> aren't you at that point? i mean the unemployment rate, of course, in october of '09 is 25.5. i imagine a lot of people were discouraged and left and that's the decline to 18.9 but that's more than twice the ...

Applies in michigan to about 17.5% of our workforce. that's significant but most people don't have it as an issue. if you look where michigan was at, we were at the bottom for an entire decade. we are at the comeback state because we have done so many things, paying down our debt, and we are the sixth fastest growing state in the nation compared to 50th in prior years. this is a device i have issue after the election. we had a ballot proposal that brought up a lot of labor issues. this is one that continued. it's a device i have issue. it's my position let's take leadership and address it in a...

>> median household income in detroit is $23,000. unemployment 18.9%, far above the national average. if that's the case high, did you vote four more years? >> entitlements. >> life is kind of scary. anything can happen when you get in your car. so here come government officials. they will take your fear of life away. they will give you healthcare, they will give you retirement, they will give you your medicare and give you whatever you need but they get power and we give up our liberties. but they play on people's fierce. we don't teach freedom anymore and how to take advantage of it. >> we a...

Resolved and better services to detroiters. >> i look at it from afar, because i don't live there, but 18.9% and it's been that way since 2008. it's been above that. like how long are you going to wait before something is going to be done in detroit? i imagine the people there are running out of patience because this is desperate. >> it's a 30-day review cycle. we get outside experts to come in and make evaluation of the stat us and from there we can look to the emergency manager options or other options and move forward. but we need the mayor and the city council to work together and get thin...