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Question: What do good-paying jobs have to do with fewer aban-doned homes, safer neighborhoodsand better schools?

 Answer: EVERYTHING!Bring good paying jobs back to Detroit and Detroit will be BACK

 at’s why on this coming First Friday, June 3,Southeast Michigan Jobs with Justice is supporting the community organization,

Goods Jobs Now, and its call for a jobs rally.

Friday, June 3, 2011 - 11:30 a.m.Roosevelt Park, 2200 Michigan Ave. (In front of the Old Train Station)

Free food & activities • Guest Speakers

 And you.(Here’s your chance to have your say and share your ideas on how to bring Detroit back)

For more information, contact:Southeastern Michigan Jobs with Justice600 W. Lafayette, #200, Detroit MI 48226

313-961-0800, ext. 235 jwjsem@gmail.com • www.semjwj.org

Join ongoing First Friday Full Employmentactions First Friday of every month when

unemployment statistics are reported.

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 You can look at Detroit’s old Michigan Central Train Station one of two ways.

1. Either as a symbol of the end of the manufacturing era in America, of a city known for puttingthe World on Wheels now on its last legs, or of the failure of “Big Government” spending thatput the country in debt and destroys the jobs creation power of the private sector.

2. Or it could symbolize the rejuvenation of manufacturing and good-paying jobs, the rebirth ofa city that will become strong and prosperous again because we still know how to make things,and a government that has the vision and courage to Think Big and Do Big Things.

In the early 1950s when federal debt was at its highest until 2008, political leaders from both par-ties showed vision and courage by setting the course to grow our way out of debt by laying thefoundation for a strong and prosperous economy. President Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican,spent billions on constructing an Interstate Highway system to move people, raw materials andfinished goods faster and cheaper. And he spent billions more educating the work force the coun-try needed through funding a new G.I. Bill. President Eisenhower dared to Think Big and Do Big.

Built in 1913, the Michigan Central Station saw 200 trainsleaving every day at its peak, with 4,000 passengers and3,000 people working in the country’s tallest train sta-tion. Trains also carried natural resources, autos, autoparts and the mail. Over the years, trains were replacedby automobiles, trucks and airplanes as our nation’s mainforms of transportation.

But times have changed – once again. Now to travel fromone city to the next by plane means getting to the airporttwo hours ahead of time and waiting in long lines. Going

to work by automobile today often means time- and fuel-wasting rush hours. More time on the road. Less time with family.

Building more highways and airports is not the answer.Building just one mile of one lane of highway costs $40 to $50 million. Adding a single extra runwayat Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport recently cost $1.3 billion. The $200 million of governmentspending coming to our state to improve a 135- mile stretch of railroad track between Chicago andDetroit will cost taxpayers only $1.5 million a mile. Plus, train travel is highly fuel-efficient. Five hundred passengers from New York to Philadelphia use 1/2 the fuel they would have if they had driventheir cars. A sensible move toward becoming more energy-independent.

On May 9, the Obama Administration announced $2.02 billion oftargeted investment to bring high-speed rail to the United States tocreate jobs, boost manufacturing and spur private development.

 A strict “Buy American” requirement for all high-speed rail projectsensures that U.S. manufacturers and their workers will receive themaximum economic benefits from this investment. Such governmenspending has already seen spin-off benefits to the private sector. InBrunswick, Maine, businesses of all types, including condominiums

a new hotel and a modern medical center, have sprung up around the new Brunswick Train Station.

Spending tax dollars to build a world-class high-speed rail system, President Obama is not wasting

taxpayers’ money. He is investing in our nation’s future. Yes, there is a difference.