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FREEP shills for MDP and I scream "Ficus!"By Nick, Section News
Shame on the mainstream media. Again.
Yesterday's announcement of House Republicans' plan to rescue the state budget from drowning in red ink, free up millions of stimulus dollars to plug directly into the economy and completely avoid the tax hikes the Dillon Majority and the Granholm-Cherry administration have promised didn't just get short shrift... at one "news" outlet it actually got NO shrift. MLIVE provided a prominent link for part of the day yesterday, the Lansing State Journal has the story and the Detroit News buried the story in fine print half-way down their front page but our friends at the Ivory Tower decided a massive package of reforms and cuts that'd actually solve this dag-blamed budget crisis simply wasn't news worthy. What do we get instead from the FREEP? The front page contains "above the fold" stories (as it were) about the Red Wings (which is actually OK with me), Michael Vick, Delphi workers frustrated by part of the "bailout" plan... and a discussion of a boat race. Maybe on their dedicated "Politics" page? Nope. The top five actual stories, in order:
-Obama defends healthcare plan to Americans In between the third and fourth is a pro-Obama puff piece Q & A page ostensibly designed to help viewers better understand what the President said during last night's television address. Anyone notice a trend? National Dems, local Dems, statewide Dems and Dems in the biggest race this election cycle. If you only read the FREEP it isn't that you don't know House Republicans proposed a massive spending and regulatory overhaul that ends the state's budget crisis without raising taxes... it's that you don't even know Michigan Republicans exist! Alas... this morning eeeeeveryone knows that Mark Brewer exists and job providers across the Mitten have already begun looking at real estate listings in other states. That's the sort of thing that can happen when the Chairman of the Democratic Party stands up in an overwhelmingly Democratic state and tells anyone listening that he may be looking to launch a ballot proposal aimed at using rocket fuel to propel the minimum wage to an astronomical $10 an hour. (Read on...)
Daniel Howes wrote in this morning's Detroit News:
The latest comes from Mark Brewer, the state Democratic Party chief who never met a cheap publicity stunt he didn't like: A series of ballot proposals that would boost the minimum wage 35 percent to $10 an hour; mandate that all employers offer health care coverage or be fined; cut utility rates 20 percent; increase unemployment benefits; impose a one-year moratorium on foreclosures; and deliver a new Cadillac CTS to every Michigan household. Howes says he's joking about the Cadillac. I wish he hadn't joked because Brewer undoubtedly read the column and is now considering it. More and more these days, the only real response I can muster when Brewer opens his mouth is "Ficus."
Seriously, though... why not mandate that job makers provide free housing for employees? Extend foodstamps and WIC benefits to any family making under $100,000 an hour? Jump the minimum wage to $20 an hour? Think about how much better a struggling Michigan family could do if they didn't have to pay rent or a mortgage, buy their own food and took home three times what they currently do every other Friday? Personally? I'd like a pony. I've always wanted a pony. I'd even consider naming him Mark Brewer the Pony. I'd just call him Mark. It'd be great fun. Then again, even discussing this nonsense we're making Brewer's week. The man clearly isn't an economist. He's the Chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party and his job is electing Democrats, not protecting jobs. He can spout inanities until my pony comes home and there are enough voters in this state taking him seriously that the rest of us have to, too. Heaven help us all. Even the thousands of Michigan business that are undoubtedly incorporating in other states as we speak.
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