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    Proposal 5 and Article V, Section 18 is Marriage Made in Heaven for Michigan


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Fri Oct 19, 2012 at 12:12:17 PM EST
    Tags: Prop 5, Limits, Rick Snyder, MEDC, Crony Capitalism, A123, LG CHEM, Kakistocracy, Green Subsidy, Progressives, BAD Behavior, SB-992, Bobby Schostak, Massive Federal debt is not a factor, Epic FAIL, now a Port Authority too?, Tax Hiker, One Term Nerd, Agema start scouting, 2014 (all tags)

    Fact is folks, Michigan has been blessed with our Balanced Budget Law... partially.  However, with every term of vote buying, and interest lobby bought off congresscritters we send to Lansing, proclaiming that R is for reverse, and D is for driving into a ditch, our bloated budget habitually reflects that like a teenager with a new license to the family car - the keys need to be restricted from exposure.  As it should be, most youth behaves carefree with their new power to blaze their own trail on the open roads, however, that still leaves mom, and dad held responsible for the family car.  It's a fact of life - when the little darlings have a fender bender caused by doing things other than paying attention to the road, any damage caused comes out of the family wallet to fix the car.

    Yessirree.  Article V, Section 18 is merely PLPD coverage on the family car.  Out of pocket repair bills is exactly the exposure that every Michigan family faces with handing the keys to their little darlings behind the Lansing wheel.  What's that?  A smart family should know to also carry collision, or, Full Coverage if entrusting others with risks to the family vehicle?  Well, with just checking the old inbox, that is the message that the good folks over at the Michigan Capitol Confidential are driving home on Prop 5.

    The idea behind a Tax Limitation Amendment is to make it more difficult for the political class to pilfer the pockets of taxpayers. Research -- most notably by scholar Mancur Olson -- has shown time and again that in democratic nations the wishes of an electorate are often ignored by narrow special interests that seek costly "favors" from the government. Politicians all too frequently accommodate those favors (be they subsidies or tariffs or spending hikes or other items) in part because their contributors and powerful constituents support them. Increasing taxes also is often a path of least resistance.

    Constitutional restrictions are an effective way to handcuff politicians and stymie the special interests who lobby them for more money. Academic research on balance seems to show that such restrictions do check the growth of government and tax burdens, too.

    Amen!  So, the natural question must be asked, why is it that the biggest opponent of Prop 5, Rick Snyder, a CEO, and CPA mind you, is behaving like a teenager who incessantly tells dumb 'ol mom and dad who are liable for his actions that he can text and drive?

    The funny thing is with Halloween approaching, skeletons do come out of the closet...

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    But I Want the Fist and the Tiara


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Wed Oct 10, 2012 at 11:05:17 AM EST
    Tags: Brooks Patterson, Stupidity, DIA Tax, Proposal 10-2, SB-992, Kakistocracy, Bobby Schostak, Milliken a 12-3 EcoTard, U of M, ChiComs, DRIC-NITC, Sino-Michigan Properties LLC, Obamacare Health Exchange, Anti-Right To Work, Public-Private Partnerships, Crony Capitalism, MEDC, Light Rail boondoggles, Massive Federal debt is not a factor, Epic FAIL, Tax Hiker, One Term Nerd, Agema start scouting, 2014 (all tags)

    I reckon that being truthful plays all kinds of hell on an Executive who pushed through the DIA Tax on his county, and on a Governerd swirling tax dollars down the drain on excess, and extravagance while the bodies pile, and anarchy descends.

    via The Detroit News

    The Michigan Republican Party on Tuesday pulled a cable TV ad that bashes Detroit while touting Oakland County's GOP.

    County Executive L. Brooks Patterson saw the 34-second ad and asked state GOP Chairman Bobby Schostak on Tuesday to pull it, saying it was unnecessarily negative.

    Patterson, who is undergoing rehabilitation for injuries suffered in a car crash, received a resounding no, spokesman Bill Mullan said.

    "I've always run political campaigns built on positive messages. My campaign has asked the independent entity that produced this ad to take it down, but they've refused," Patterson said in a statement on Tuesday. "Detroit has its challenges. But my administration has always tried to be part of the solution."

    More with video of pulled commercial

    And, folks still try to tell me that there is a Two Party system.  Again .. Shut up, Brooks.  Your 73-year-old duplicitous tongue needs to head out to pasture, and tell tales of how you remember your legend to your grandchildren.  Everything has a built in obsolescence, Brooks - you, like this dangerous fossil, have finally met yours.

    That is fact.

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    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    Tell it to the Nerd Voters, Rep. Rogers


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Tue Oct 09, 2012 at 09:40:31 AM EST
    Tags: Mike Rogers, Rick Snyder, U of M, ChiComs, DRIC-NITC, Sino-Michigan Properties LLC, Obamacare Health Exchange, Anti-Right To Work, Public-Private Partnerships, Crony Capitalism, MEDC, Light Rail boondoggles, Massive Federal debt is not a factor, Epic FAIL, Tax Hiker, One Term Nerd, Agema start scouting, 2014 (all tags)

    Noticed an interesting post discussing our infrastructure, and communications over at Hall of Record

    Huawei, a global Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer already doing limited business in the U.S., poses a threat to national and corporate security say members of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Those congressmen speak to Steve Kroft for a 60 Minutes investigation to be broadcast Sunday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7:00 p.m. PT.

    The world's largest maker of telecommunications equipment has been under investigation for the past year by the committee, which will issue its report on the Chinese company on Monday. The committee's chair, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), tells Kroft, "If I were an American company today...and you are looking at Huawei, I would find another vendor if you care about your intellectual property, if you care about your consumers' privacy, and you care about the national security of the United States of America."

    More

    No kidding, Mike.  Good thing the Canadians had Snyder file a Buy American waiver on their DRIC, too.

    Sure poses a quagmire for the MI-GOP loyalists, and the ChiCom loving Governerd, doesn't it?

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    GOP Presidential Nominee, Mitt Romney: "Yup, That's My Guy..."


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Sat Aug 11, 2012 at 01:35:50 PM EST
    Tags: Epic FAIL, One Term Nerd, Anti-Right To Work, DRIC-NITC, ChiComs, Public-Private Partnerships, MEDC, Light Rail boondoggles, Massive Federal debt is not a factor, Obamacare Health Exchange, Agema start scouting, 2014, Anyone but Stabenow, NObama (all tags)

    Conservative principles crumbling under pressure?  Potentially, just a heartbeat away.

    Must be what the RNC is shooting for as its slogan this election.

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    Eunuchty


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Wed Aug 08, 2012 at 07:41:58 PM EST
    Tags: Epic FAIL, One Term Nerd, Anti-Right To Work, DRIC-NITC, ChiComs, Public-Private Partnerships, MEDC, Light Rail boondoggles, Massive Federal debt is not a factor, Obamacare Health Exchange, Agema start scouting, 2014, Anyone but Stabenow (all tags)

    Is this campaign meme intended to keep folks at home in November?

    "Take that Relentless Positive Action, and uh, bring it to Washington, DC"

    Oy!  Pete and John, wise up .. ditch the I ♥ Nerd schtick.  A lone 2010 primary 36% win infiltrated by Schwarz Democrats does not necessarily make one a Senator in 2012.

    Seriously, wtf are you two thinking?

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    A Rather Unappetizing Future Awaits


    By Corinthian Scales, Section Multimedia
    Posted on Thu Oct 21, 2010 at 10:28:57 AM EST
    Tags: Snyder, Moderates, Milliken, Progressives, City of Detroit, Epic Fail (all tags)

    Is Snyder trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?  After reading in today's detnews.com that Snyder is out on the campaign trail in Detroit with Bill "Passionate Moderate" Milliken, it would appear that he is.

    "Our relationship began when I was lieutenant governor presiding over the Senate and Mayor Young was a state senator," Milliken said at a campaign event in Corktown. "At that time, we didn't get along too well."

    But like the state and the city, the two realized over time "both of us needed each other," Milliken said. "We developed a warm personal relationship."

    Again, let's examine what the State of Michigan and the City of Detroit have become through moderate right and progressive left leadership.

    It all paints a dismal landscape for Michigan's future for me.

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    Saving Her Energy?


    By The Wizard of Laws, Section News
    Posted on Tue Oct 27, 2009 at 10:16:21 AM EST
    Tags: attorney general, bill, epic fail, Gretchen Whitmer, law, legislature (all tags)

    Cross-posted in The Wizard of Laws

    When Richard Nixon ran for President in 1968 after six years out of public life and living in California, a popular slogan described him as "The New Nixon: Tanned, Rested, and Ready."

    State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer (D-East Lansing) announced recently that she was running for Michigan attorney general. I can't comment on her tan or her readiness, but after eight years of doing nothing in the legislature, she should certainly be well-rested.

    Using the state's legislature website, I searched records going back to 2001, Whitmer's first year in the House. I examined every bill for which she was the primary sponsor. In the House and Senate to date, Whitmer has sponsored 128 bills. Of these, a grand total of 3 made it to a vote, and 2 were passed. The third was defeated 81-22 in the House. She has not had a single bill make it to a vote since June 29, 2005.

    If you're keeping score at home, that's 2 passed bills out of 128 attempts, which is a .015 batting average, enough to make Hank Aguirre blush.

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    The New Cherry Commission: If at first you don't succeed, hope everyone forgets you tried


    By Nick, Section News
    Posted on Mon Jun 15, 2009 at 06:54:58 AM EST
    Tags: Cherry, task force, government efficiency, EPIC FAIL, graduation rates, Cherry Commission, MSM, bias (all tags)

    Credit where credit is due.  Easy to give the mainstream media a hard time for their all-too-often biased, incomplete or one-sided reporting habits but every now and again they do a cracker-jack job.  Case in point, this morning's Detroit News which has taken it upon itself to actually dig into the results of a Granholm-Cherry promise dating back to the early re-election campaign days halfway through their first term.

    It was in 2004 that the Guv first tabbed her second-in-command (and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate) John Cherry to head up a fancy commission to identify and establish plans to double the college graduation rate here in Michigan.  Because if you form a special task force it shows you're serious, whether or not it delivers the bacon, apparently.  

    And if that kind of a move sounds familiar, it should.  Earlier this calendar year the Guv tabbed her second-in-command (and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate) John Cherry to head up a fancy commission to identify and establish plans to ostensibly reduce the size of state government. Because the two of them have shown such a strong commitment to that concept these past six-plus years.  (But that's a rant for a different post.)

    No one's quite sure when or where Cherry's fancy NEW task force is going to be holding it's supposedly (but not really) public hearings... and if YOU'VE gotten wind of the specific when and where, please, leave a comment... but we've already got the results, recommendations and battle plans that emerged from the 2004 group of talkers.  A lot of talk and bluster and posturing and promises.  Results? The Detroit News:

    It was a lofty goal: Double the number of Michigan residents with a higher education within a decade.

    But nearly five years after Gov. Jennifer Granholm's call to educate the work force to a more prosperous economy, Michigan's rate has merely inched forward.

    The number of degrees and certificates awarded in Michigan increased just 4.4 percent over four years, according to data compiled by The Detroit News.

    OH!  4.4 is 93.6 LESS than 100.  What is it the kids are saying these days? "EPIC FAIL?!"  

    Are these the kind of results we can expect from John Cherry's super-secret, wasteful, duplicative "government efficiency" task force?  Here's hoping. Frankly, a 4.4 percent success rate is better than I'd normally expect from Lansing Democrats.

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