Each and every day outside Denny's Restaurant or other local eateries the Detroit News stands at the door like a miniature billboard projecting its view of the world in the form of a major headline. The News which as served so well as the regurgitation press for John Englerites and his cathouse friends and cohorts at the Mackinac Center try once again to project and propose their defeatist and business-before-families and community attitudes and agendas.
Just as surely as the state defeated the MacCen/Amway sponsored voucher petition drive in 2000 by 2 to 1, when the state shutdown again last September 30th the polling stateside showed that by 2 to 1 those polled showed they favored a tax hike to help the state survive the steep dive that the Detroit News and John Engler were so instrumental in NOT PREVENTING and in fact took positions and pushed for policies that did not enrich the state's economic status as a premiere manufacturing state and location. In fact, there was no evidence that the News had much "pull" in helping GM in its decades long haughty headed slide to the bottom.
NoviReader has the tiger by the tail:
" Finley wants to pretend that government can provide the same level of service with a lot less in revenue. If people don't want to pay for those services anymore, that's their choice. But stop the false claims that lead people to believe that they can have more government (services) with less money."We are workers and eager livers here in Michigan. But take our jobs and fail to lead us to see that bad things happen when corporations and business are made the main interest of the major news rags and the hidebound legislature --then watch the quality of life slide.
Nolan, take a moment and tell us how you and your paper have made an actual, positive difference in stopping the 20 year decline. Please give us, as evidence, a dozen examples where you and your publication have improved the quality of life in real terms for the ordinary Joe and Suzie.
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