Liberal Generosity and Goodwill: Too Soft for Harsh Punishment Fanatics and Greedy Corporatists
The triumph of liberalism is represented by generosity and goodwill over and against the TP'er's crude demoralization, the devastation of rampant corporate GREED and rise of social evil.
Michissippi as Snyder's reinvention substitution of Socialist Central Control and Lansing planning for local control and citizen led democracy.
Making the business god supreme, and God's people the lessers is a dangerous tact. Takers v. the men and women of family and community: monied men are enriched, the "real" people of ordinary life (99%'ers) are defrauded and robbed-their American Dream is mortally assaulted!
Snyder's cynical "Central Planning" impacts the state in many viral ways; (e.g. meaning those who demand a teacher go it alone, without support of his or her fellow professionals in a mutual association) thus TP'ers are intent on inflicting great harm.
Snyder and the TeaPublicans have risen in radical success because THEY HAVE CROSSED THE LINE HAVING ASSUMED THE POWER TO TAKE FROM THE CITIZENS OF THIS STATE STATUS, INCOME, RIGHTS, AND SAVINGS. TP'er anger generated power is corrupting and evil.
Teachers have been the Rad Right Target for over 30 years, only now (when the Repubican Party has run out of genuine moral compass and ethical standards) has this shameful "take-down" possible.
This America-wide attack on public school teachers and their hard-earned rights and previous status as professionals is a egregious coup d'état, mounted in large part by mega-wealthy who dwell in the upper tiers of that now infamous 1% who have managed to manipulate and control the legislative processes and lawmaking over decades (as per the American Legislative Exchange Council - A.L.E.C.) into a rarefied universe/galaxy of great greed and societal evil.
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Michigan's Nerd (Rick Snyder) came to office as a chancery candidate; a true chicane, a man unwilling to be straight forward and honest- reveal what he had in store for the state. Rick was willing to accept the cloak: "moderate" even embrace the endorsement of former Governor William Milliken - thus bringing moderates and independent voters in tow. However, those most "in-the-know" knew that the "Nerd" was intent upon inflicting great harm and devastation specifically on the teaching profession... and privately said so.
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It was the backing of the Business Leaders for Michigan that a key junctures moved Snyder to the forefront and won him the GOP nomination; ushered him through the mine field that was the TeaPartisan uprising that occurred at the 2010 GOP statewide nominating convention, where Snyder was jeered/booed and his nominee for lieutenant governor booed and insulted and very nearly removed from the ticket at the Breslin Center in East Lansing.
Taking down unions is a very negative and foreboding event. When this happens greater evils ensue. For Michigan and America the outcome will be as dire and as threatening as it has been for other times and places.
Economist Friedrich von Hayek, During the Depression Years, WARNED ABOUT "CENTERAL PLANNING" AS THE ROAD TO SERFDOM:
"Hayek did indeed tell us...at a time when that message was deeply unfashionable. In 1937, in the wake of the Great Depression and with capitalism and democracy under siege from communism and fascism, he published an academic article entitled "ECONOMICS AND KNOWLEDGE," which pointed out that free markets were not just a political construct, as many critics claimed, but remained the best way of coordinating scattered information.
"Seven years later, when most of the world's major economies were under unprecedented central control, Hayek published THE ROAD TO SERFDOM, a damning indictment of socialism and state planning that once more, this time in plain English, laid out the fundamental advantage of the free market: by allowing millions of decision makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, it allocates resources-LABOR, CAPITAL, AND HUMAN INGENUITY-IN A MANNER THAT CAN'T BE MIMICKED BY A CENTRAL PLAN, HOWEVER BRILLIANT THE CENTRAL PLANNER."
How very odd that Professor Gary Wolfram, from his lair at bucolic Hillsdale College, should miss the fact that our "Nerd" governor and the corporate inspired and FOX (a Rupert Murdock faux front for THE ONE PERCENTER S of big wealth) organized and sponsored the TeaPartisan uprising that has done great harm to our state via A.L.E.C. plug and play legislation and by means of the threat of being TP'ed in primaries has missed the reality that we in Michigan have been ushered into "Central planning."
The newbie legislative TP'ers are hate and fear-filled fanatics. They've imposed "central planning" on Michigan, preempted local "market forces" as per collective bargaining at the local school district level and with local municipalities -as in negotiations for first responders, firefighters and police held with neighbors and local community members.
Former uber-conservative state Senator Jack Welborn made it clear in 1993 that the state take-over of the local school operating funding mechanism (school operations funding) was tantamount to an important "tool" to force changes in the public school system which were henceforth to come "top-down" from bureaucraticLansing-as central control.
The TeaPartisan GOP legislature has taken Michigan in a radically socialist direction by the very means of punitive state legislation concentrating decision making within the TP/A.L.E.C. dominated legislative-a virtual stranglehold over all three branches of Michigan government: the legislature, the supreme court, and the executive branch.
Local control is kaput! Gone!
Even more shocking and more deeply threatening is THE TEAPUBLICAN USE OF THE STATE'S POLICE POWERS TO TAKE OVER LOCAL UNITS OF GOVERNMENT AND ACT IN A SUPER-DICTATORIAL WAY TO ACHIEVE SUBJECTIVE GOALS OF THOSE CENTRAL PLANNING EXECUTIVES FROM LANSING. This is a complete and total denial of the very principles the GOP and the public have held so dear so long.
Michigan's "greatest generation" fought to protect democracy as we once knew it. Now the 1%er Corporatocracy and its poltical lackeys have arisen to dominate and control their grandchildren. The economic elites have stolen the future.
Their grandchildren are not going to take it anymore, they are organizing to Occupy Wall Street until there is real change in how wealth is permitted by pro-business legislation to dominate and suppress the workers and middle class.
The Lansing TeaPartisans are anathema to democracy and local control.
Rick Snyder's "central control" is comprised of usurpation and domination of wages, benefits, and working conditions. SNYDER SOCIALISM IS REVISIONIST & REGRESSIVE, thus he's a danger to Michigan's well being. SNYDER'S "ROAD TO SERFDOM" HAS DESTROYED FREEDOM & THE LOCAL FREE MARKET FORCES IN MICHIGAN.
Michissippi is Snyder's reinvention and it is totally unacceptable, un-democratic.
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