It is as though the elite/high society passengers and crew on the Titanic were ideological "true believers" convinced that that ship, like Michigan's ship of state, is "unsinkable" no matter what kind dangers or sea condition the ship faces.
The big shots announce that there is "no danger" just trust in their navigation and professional judgment, and proceed to pass around the Champagne casks and party-hardy. They play "Happy Days Are Here Again" as they arrogantly ignore the blind leadership of the Captain and believe the ship will survive any harm they or the ship can encounter. Just stick to the outline we have published sings out the Nerd, Michigan has entered the final chapter of the "Engler Revolution."
As this day unfolds the bubbly will be flowing over at the Mackinac Center. It's there unbelievable day of triumph The "againer geeks" have succeeded in bringing down Michigan.
The Party is on.
First Mate Frank Beckmann reports from the engine room: "...business leaders who have been briefed on the preliminaries call it a night-and-day difference in approaching Michigan's budget issues and economic environment. They complimented the candor and even courage of the administration to off what they termed "BOLD AND DRAMATIC" CHANGES that stand in stark contrast to what one business leader called the "anti-business" environment in Illinois.
'But these business leaders told me they're not surprised since the administration is led by Snyder (experienced CPA-CFO-CEO) and Lt. Governor Brian Calley (pro-business banker and ex-chair of Tax Policy Committee), who is taking the lead on a lot of the policy discussions.
'In the end, this will be a controversial proposal that will challenge conservatives to live up to their stated beliefs. But it's a grown up plan that's developing and has business leaders excited for the first time in recent memory over what state government is actually doing to stimulate business growth."
As this radical ignore the culture and the quality of life "navigation plan" their ideology has brought us to clash with "icebergs" of public resistance and anger.
True to the timeless tragedy: The common man, the working families, locked in steerage-the bowels of the sinking ship of state-won't be offered life boats. After all if the boat sinks, the myth goes, IT'S THEIR SOCIAL WEIGHT THAT TOOK IT DOWN.
Up on the promenade, it's Mackinac Center dancing jigs and giving high 5's all around!
Here's the MacCen score card, print it out and check off each item (hole in the hull) as the MacCen Grinch geeks pop another magnum:
1.) Eliminate the Michigan Business Tax- replace the money it raises with cuts in government spending.
2.) Pass Right-to-Work legislation. There may be no greater single economic development policy that Michigan could adopt.
3.) Rein in the Department of Environmental Quality. (Maintaining Michigan's high standards, means businesses) "won't be doing business or creating jobs in Michigan, period. It's a 100 percent tax rate."
4.) (Stop) the state promising millions of dollars in targeted tax credits or subsidies to slick operators in sexy industries who promise to "create" jobs.
5.) Bring public sector employment benefits in line with the private sector (Using the tools honed and revised by MacCen as to that "private sector" benchmark is.)
6.) Make public pay equal to "private" pay: Michigan Public vs. Private "hourly" compensation.
7.) Resend Gov. George Romney's signing of the Michigan Public Employment Relations Act, eliminate collective bargaining for public employees.
8.) Cut state government work force
9.) Change state revenue-sharing formula
10.) Let private firms run some prisons
11.) Eliminate the earned income credit
12.) Allowing for income tax exemptions for government retirement benefits, including pensions and proposed extension of those exemptions to private sector pensions is "unfair" as viewed by LaFaive.
The Mackinac Center has recommended hundreds specific ideas to save the state more than $2 billion a year. Most of them involve getting government out of certain activities, or eliminating costly privileges to certain groups. "101 Recommendations to Revitalize Michigan."
Michael D. LaFaive: "The solution to Michigan's problems is simpler than (people) are willing to admit."
Do it our way!
Interpretation: Just do as my Mackinac Center dictates you must.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
The Crested Cowbird: The Mackinac Center State Bird
Cowbirds are very clever and naturally devious birds, they lay their eggs in other bird's nests and then as those eggs hatch and the young are born, some other bird gets the responsibility and intensive task of providing for the Cowbird's young. And so it is that metaphorically, the Mackinac Center has laid its "eggs" in Snyder's agenda nest by means of its total access to the Detroit/Mackinac News' editorial pages and the MacCen's other open access to numerous media outlets, conservative pundits, and news chains across Michigan. As is the Cowbird mode, Mackinac Center awaits its Cowbird outcome.
Yesterday (January 20, 2011), we heard the piercing cry of the Cowbird in this blog (Michigan View):
"Though he gave no specifics, Snyder proposed an expansion of education emphasis to begin at the prenatal phase - sperm and egg? - and continue throughout life. And he suggested a government "system" to step into our private lives on health issues like smoking and obesity, hardly the platform of a staunch conservative.
"While Snyder touched on many issues in an address that had an overall uplifting feel to it, he also failed to mention plans for key issues such as film credits, early prison-inmate release, energy policy and the stated goal of House Speaker Jase Bolger to begin discussing right-to-work legislation.
Perhaps Frank should encourage the Mackinac Center to migrate-franchising their "gripe away government" method of operation, "taking-it-to-government" to other states.
The Enigma: Let's see if Crested Cowbirds have a wider range and can con naive natives birds elsewhere, who don't mind raising and supporting the Cowbird's greedy offspring.
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Yesterday (January 20, 2011), we heard the piercing cry of the Cowbird in this blog (Michigan View):
"While recognizing what he called the state's 'unsustainable financial model,' SNYDER NEVERTHELESS SUGGESTED PROGRAMS THAT REQUIRE MORE GOVERNMENT.(emphasis added)
"{Snyder} proposed a new government 'Office of Urban Initiatives' in Detroit and two other locations, and a new Michigan Economic Development Corp. board member for agriculture.
"Though he gave no specifics, Snyder proposed an expansion of education emphasis to begin at the prenatal phase - sperm and egg? - and continue throughout life. And he suggested a government "system" to step into our private lives on health issues like smoking and obesity, hardly the platform of a staunch conservative.
"While Snyder touched on many issues in an address that had an overall uplifting feel to it, he also failed to mention plans for key issues such as film credits, early prison-inmate release, energy policy and the stated goal of House Speaker Jase Bolger to begin discussing right-to-work legislation.
"Of course, all this emphasizes the enormity of the job facing the new governor, who continues to come across as anything but a typical politician." Frank Beckmann,('Gov. Enigma' brings new era to Michigan's politics, 1.21.11)
Perhaps Frank should encourage the Mackinac Center to migrate-franchising their "gripe away government" method of operation, "taking-it-to-government" to other states.
The Enigma: Let's see if Crested Cowbirds have a wider range and can con naive natives birds elsewhere, who don't mind raising and supporting the Cowbird's greedy offspring.
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Frank Beckmann Weighed in on the Giffords Shooting & "Despicable Critisms" Against Talk Radio
Response to Frank Beckmann on his Radio Show concerning the the shooting of US Rep Gifford and attacks on conservative radio talk show hosts.
Frank objects to the attacks upon the "talk show" crowd and their strident opines; critics saying that "harsh speak" from far right hosts may have ginned up the atmosphere prevailing prior to the killings in Tucson and since. We're being unfairly attacked, says Frank.
BECKMANN: They do it to us, to defend ourselves we must do it back.
This EXTENDS the endless cycle of violent abuse of civility.
We, like goldfish, live EMERSED in a total environment permeated with TALK , too much talk.
It's "TALK" that is making big money for Fox and Limbaugh et al. Harsh talk, and DISRESPECTFUL argument, ad hominem "ACCUSATORY TALK THAT IS CONTINUING TO ESCALATE - to the point of civil breakdown.
The Country once talked and wrote itself into the Civil War which was a stupendous and stupid display of animal-like carnage and destruction: An ugly dagger in the heart of every person believing in "American Exceptionalism."
Decades of diatribes and fiery accusations resulted in ill-will that led directly to civil war.
The written word also stoked the sparks of conflagration. Abe Lincoln addressed Harriet Beecher Stowe, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Words do count, words do inflame, words do incite to kill!
The secession of South Carolina and the attack on Ft. Sumter were THE DIRECT RESULT OF DECADES OF ESCALATING TALK, RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE, AND HARSH RHETORICAL RHETORIC BY "PATRIOTS" IN CONGRESS - hotheads who always "Gave as good as they Got."
We were invited into THE AMERICAN "CULTURAL WAR" by Pat Buchanan at Houston's GOP National Convention, 1992.
GOD HELP US IF WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO TALKING OURSELVES INTO THE new "CIVIL WAR" mentioned recently by so many - intent on having their ideologies "win" a political victory over those of others they disdain and disavow at whatever cost.
BECKMANN: "Conservative talk radio will survive the dishonest assaults and will not waver from its support of the Constitution, law enforcement and open political debate."
In other words, BECKMANN; Diatribes Forever?
How very sad !
Pray God touches Frank's heart of stone.
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Frank objects to the attacks upon the "talk show" crowd and their strident opines; critics saying that "harsh speak" from far right hosts may have ginned up the atmosphere prevailing prior to the killings in Tucson and since. We're being unfairly attacked, says Frank.
BECKMANN: They do it to us, to defend ourselves we must do it back.
This EXTENDS the endless cycle of violent abuse of civility.
We, like goldfish, live EMERSED in a total environment permeated with TALK , too much talk.
It's "TALK" that is making big money for Fox and Limbaugh et al. Harsh talk, and DISRESPECTFUL argument, ad hominem "ACCUSATORY TALK THAT IS CONTINUING TO ESCALATE - to the point of civil breakdown.
The Country once talked and wrote itself into the Civil War which was a stupendous and stupid display of animal-like carnage and destruction: An ugly dagger in the heart of every person believing in "American Exceptionalism."
Decades of diatribes and fiery accusations resulted in ill-will that led directly to civil war.
The written word also stoked the sparks of conflagration. Abe Lincoln addressed Harriet Beecher Stowe, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Words do count, words do inflame, words do incite to kill!
The secession of South Carolina and the attack on Ft. Sumter were THE DIRECT RESULT OF DECADES OF ESCALATING TALK, RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE, AND HARSH RHETORICAL RHETORIC BY "PATRIOTS" IN CONGRESS - hotheads who always "Gave as good as they Got."
We were invited into THE AMERICAN "CULTURAL WAR" by Pat Buchanan at Houston's GOP National Convention, 1992.
GOD HELP US IF WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO TALKING OURSELVES INTO THE new "CIVIL WAR" mentioned recently by so many - intent on having their ideologies "win" a political victory over those of others they disdain and disavow at whatever cost.
BECKMANN: "Conservative talk radio will survive the dishonest assaults and will not waver from its support of the Constitution, law enforcement and open political debate."
In other words, BECKMANN; Diatribes Forever?
How very sad !
Pray God touches Frank's heart of stone.
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