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Tag: Safety

New Anti Prop 2 Ad

By JGillman, Section Multimedia
Posted on Wed Oct 10, 2012 at 03:40:29 PM EST
Tags: Prop 2, Sneaky Bastiches, Unions, Safety, For the Children (all tags)

Reeeeeaaaally? - Love it.

New TV Ad: Local Teachers Union Contract Reveals Proposal 2 Hurts Michigan Kids

Protecting Michigan Taxpayers, a broad-based coalition working to educate parents and voters about the dangerous effects Proposal 2 would have on students, parents and taxpayers today released a new statewide television commercial titled "Hurts," highlighting dangerous provisions in Michigan teachers union contracts that the Michigan Education Association (MEA) says would go into effect upon passage of Proposal 2.

"According to a leaked memo from the Michigan Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, Proposal 2 would overturn common sense state laws that help keep our kids safe at school," said Jared Rodriguez, Spokesman for Protecting Michigan Taxpayers. "And the local teachers union contract in Bay City says that Proposal 2 would give five strikes to teachers under the influence of alcohol at school, three strikes to teachers under the influence of drugs in the classroom and two strikes to teachers caught selling drugs at school. The MEA is right that Proposal 2 will overturn school reform laws - unfortunately it will hurt Michigan kids!"

According to Proposal 2's own language, under the proposal Michigan parents, voters and lawmakers would be permanently prohibited from "limit(ing) the right to collectively bargain for wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment." The MEA and the teachers union contract in Bay City claim this language would overturn common sense legal restrictions that prevent teachers caught under the influence of drugs and alcohol from remaining in the classroom.

Studies also indicate Proposal 2 would cost families at least $1.6 billion tax dollars a year.

"Hurts" can also be viewed online at http://youtu.be/8Ke-QTNvUMY.

Organizations from across the state are working together to defeat Proposal 2 including organizations representing school boards, school principals, school superintendents, the Michigan Sheriff's Association, small business groups, chambers of commerce and taxpayer organizations.

Protecting Michigan Taxpayers is a watchdog organization that aims to keep Michigan moving forward by ensuring fairness for our state's taxpayers. Only by defeating Proposal 2 can the state continue to create jobs, maintain lower taxes and keep more of our sons and daughters working at home in Michigan. To learn more about Protecting Michigan Taxpayers and defeating Proposal 2, please visit www.ProtectingMichiganTaxpayers.com

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Riemersma Is correct

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Sat May 07, 2011 at 10:03:09 AM EST
Tags: Jay Riemersma, Congress, Michigan, Debt, Debt Ceiling, Safety (all tags)

The debt ceiling cannot be lifted. In today's Ivory Tower special guest commentary, former US Representative candidate Jay Riemersma calls on the GOP controlled congress to do what is right and ignore calls to do "what has always been done."
Riemersma points out:

To make sense of this statement, we first have to set aside the ridiculous premise that "they've always done it in the past" should guide what Congress does today.
Second, Congress has not always voted to raise the debt ceiling. When they elected not do so in 1995, the sky didn't fall and our economy did not implode. What's really being said here is, "We need to borrow more today so we can begin to have a conversation about saving tomorrow."

Exactly. At what point will we make those decisions? Next year?

And frankly, unless our entire income is outgoing as interest, we will pay our obligations. The threat we will not is absurd. Going forward and adding to that interest burden hardly serves the better prospects of digging ourselves out, unless some have the fantasy that this asphyxiating administration will bring economic prosperity any time sooner, or later. So shorting the next possibility of balance leaves only one other prospect, and that is collapsing the currency.

The Michigan congressional delegation needs to hear from us, that no more debt is acceptable. Not now, and not in the future.

Expanding our obligation now, merely adds to the reality we cannot control our spending. It burdens our children, their children and puts our future health and safety at risk. Expanding it now, or in the future tells us we have forgotten that debt is supposed to be a temporary tool only.

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