Dictatorship is "verboten." Snyder's push to ramrod anti-union bills (H.B. 4215 et al and corresponding Senate bills) finally got big time negative attention, and how!
MSNBC has outed Rick Snyder's ALEC and more intense investigation and exposes are bound to be coming forth e.g. a long internet based report entitled "Gov Snyder Sellout?"
Michigan GOP'ers embarrassed themselves with a fool's blunder creating in a stroke of acidic political dyspepsia, imposing voter disenfranchisement and civic disaster. They do this giving huge new powers to EMF's that are literally dictatorial and counter-productive to the health and well-being of local sovereignty/home rule, and the right of self-determination.
These local units under duress are administered by our closest neighbors and are officials, who often work in our behalf without adequate funding and personally serve unselfishly in elective positions that drain their personal incomes rather than add to their remuneration for these often difficult and important local decisions, service and governance they provide. They did not lobby or ask for this kind of cruel assignment, it is being imposed on them.
This situation is unacceptable and morally repugnant.
The Snyder/Teapubican plan would actually eject officials from office and bar them from returning to elective office for a period of years.
Folks this is nuts!
The purpose of these bills is intended to deliberately squeeze the local units and force them to do drastic and hurtful harm to fireman, policemen, first responders, municipal workers, teachers, etc. in order to coerce/force wage and benefit stripping which Snyder and Teapublicans demand.
Snyder/Dillon are intent on making this happen. In fact, it is they who make deficits happen; they are about to cut off any block grant revenue sharing and are cutting the school aid funding per pupil by a whopping $470 per student forcing these units to drown in debt.
What is clear is that Snyder and the Teapubicans in the State Legislature are forcing the local units to do extreme heavy lifting, perform despicable actions which leave the Governor and Dillon ostensibly clear of all direct blame or direct responsibility, which is totally untrue.
Snyder's call to local units is as per: We don't care how you do it, just grab back all you can, strip off enough to keep afloat or if you don't, you can count on me and Andy Dillon to take over and clean up after you in a very methodical and dictatorial way.
This concept is backed up by Dillon's recent media quotes: Dillon hinted that one of the communities on the brink is not what most would expect -- an urban and low-income city. He said the state needs more teeth in laws to force communities to straighten out their finances, and for those that don't, "BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN." He called on the Legislature to quickly enact a change in the law to give financial emergency managers...more power to act sooner to head off financial problems. "IT'S GOING TO PROPERLY ALIGN PEOPLE'S MOTIVATIONS TO DO IT THEMSELVES," Dillon said, after speaking to the Business Leaders for Michigan summit on the state's financial condition.
There you have Dillon acquired "brute force"; the wielding of the big axe pushed into the hands of local officials is there to "properly align people's motivations to do it themselves." This in Dillon's own words.
What fools the Michigan Senate are called to be. Rick Snyder is dead wrong.
The entire nation got a nasty anti-democratic eyeful of Nerdonomics and it's ties to corporatist A.L.E.C. and it reeks. Sensible leaders went on alert about the disaster-in-the-making (EFM's) which Tricky Ricky insists on foisting off on Michigan's bamboozled teapartisan State Senators and Representatives.
What is obvious (to the now very alert nation) that there is a national well-oiled coup,a fully mogul-financed game plan assembled by radical far rightists delivered, in large part, by A.L.E.C. - a far right semi-secret conduit for corporations (Bros. Koch included) directly to the desks of state legislators across the nation - has been flung into the bright light of justifiable criticism.
Michigan Legislators were given one last chance and called into account by hundreds of concerned citizens who attempted to warn them off. Many called on them to do the right thing. They willfully failed.
They blew this important chance and now the Snyder Administration will be tied up in court for a very long, bitter time. Acrimony will cloud these local units. Michigan's chances for jobs and recovery take a direct and malicious blow regarding the future.
How sad! We have been shoved into a corner by a well-planned take over scheme funded by the Bros. Koch and others. These outside forces have focused on many states. Michigan Republicans are utterly subservient to such powerful self-seeking elites such as the Bros. Koch and the powerful Amway clan.
Michiganders are really coming to speed, this comment from one observer: (Rick Snyder, the governor,) plans to privatize cities and towns by having corporations, such as Wackenhut, under emergency directive, come in and dissolve and even (effect) disincorporation (on) cities and towns. Remember the old company town, where you had to buy your food and clothing from the company you worked for, and never could get current? You effectively became their slave. Well, if you like that, good because it's coming again."
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Showing posts with label HB 4215. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HB 4215. Show all posts
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Hell hath no fury as in a state built by industrious working men and women, good people now scorned and disenfranchised by Michigan Teapartisans
The passage H.B. 4215 et al, dictatorial EFM take over, voter disenfranchisement, 'corporate' direct control of local units of government breaks all previous records for reckless and thoughtless partisanship.
This all sadly grows out of the nasty Engler Revolution and the bad blood Engler engendered.
The giddy 'gotcha trolls' in the News blogs are high with grit in their teeth!
Many villages, towns, fire and police departments, schools and all their sweet children have been summarily turned over to Plunkett/Cooney high powered/high fee attorneys.
Emergencies, not yet declared, will mount up into the hundreds as the Nerdomomics of Tricky Rick unfold. This will include scores of public schools, sent to the dustbin by Rick Snyder's Nerdonomics.
Do the math yourselves.
There are already units in a financial fix. SNYDER'S INTENTIONAL TAX/REVENUE STARVATION of other units who are surviving, but struggling, will led immediately to many more undefined, but certain, declarations of 'finance emergencies.'
The We-are-much-smarter-than-thou GOP State Senators will rue the day they stepped off into this muck. We already know that $470 or more is cut from the neighborhood schools. We are fully aware that revenue sharing back to our communities of our own tax dollars via Block Grants is axed. This situation alone means there will be real trouble locally, real soon.
This is Snyder creative crisis built on a national economic downturn, not the first, but one of many very similar, over the years in Michigan.
Former Gov. William Milliken knows personally the hurt and the struggle of these cyclical events in Michigan. He led the state in pro-active and collaborate ways to overcoming and recovery.
SNYDER AND HIS TEAM OF HARD-HEADED,HARDCORE ENGLERITES HAVEN'T A CLUE They, like Engler, love the political battle and its spoils more than the peace, preferring strife over 'genuine, sincere, honest sacrifice' by all including corporations, the mega wealthy, and businesses-each according to ability.
The kind of EFM turmoil, headed up by corporations and 'firms' handed the undemocratic assignment(granted wages not to exceed $177,000 per year) is the kind of quality of life, culture buster, that drives away outstate investors.
Fancy this, what incoming corporate CEO wants to live in the wasteland this debacle has fueled. Culture to a German Company is equal to capital profits.
Germans get it. GOP'ers don't. The more cunning of the Teapartisan fearing ninnies, that timorous covey of poultry, should not be surprised by the ugly outcomes. The other sheepish, including the clueless newbees, will be stunned and very adversely effected by the collapse of units in their districts. The acrimony and the gnashing of teeth; viewed as the parsimonious landscape of "hell" will be their abode.
The 'real people' are coming for your leather swivel chairs and your platinum promise of State-Funded Health Insurance for Life, and all those other bits and pieces that lured you, the current GOP'ers into public office.
Now you've been elected, you turn on your people; to become judas goats, bitter enemies, to your own district's working families; turning against your own first responders, teachers, and the school children who populate our hopeful futures.
Remember...Dictatorship is Ugly! Hell's fury via angry, offended voters is real.
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This all sadly grows out of the nasty Engler Revolution and the bad blood Engler engendered.
The giddy 'gotcha trolls' in the News blogs are high with grit in their teeth!
Many villages, towns, fire and police departments, schools and all their sweet children have been summarily turned over to Plunkett/Cooney high powered/high fee attorneys.
Emergencies, not yet declared, will mount up into the hundreds as the Nerdomomics of Tricky Rick unfold. This will include scores of public schools, sent to the dustbin by Rick Snyder's Nerdonomics.
Do the math yourselves.
There are already units in a financial fix. SNYDER'S INTENTIONAL TAX/REVENUE STARVATION of other units who are surviving, but struggling, will led immediately to many more undefined, but certain, declarations of 'finance emergencies.'
The We-are-much-smarter-than-thou GOP State Senators will rue the day they stepped off into this muck. We already know that $470 or more is cut from the neighborhood schools. We are fully aware that revenue sharing back to our communities of our own tax dollars via Block Grants is axed. This situation alone means there will be real trouble locally, real soon.
This is Snyder creative crisis built on a national economic downturn, not the first, but one of many very similar, over the years in Michigan.
Former Gov. William Milliken knows personally the hurt and the struggle of these cyclical events in Michigan. He led the state in pro-active and collaborate ways to overcoming and recovery.
SNYDER AND HIS TEAM OF HARD-HEADED,HARDCORE ENGLERITES HAVEN'T A CLUE They, like Engler, love the political battle and its spoils more than the peace, preferring strife over 'genuine, sincere, honest sacrifice' by all including corporations, the mega wealthy, and businesses-each according to ability.
The kind of EFM turmoil, headed up by corporations and 'firms' handed the undemocratic assignment(granted wages not to exceed $177,000 per year) is the kind of quality of life, culture buster, that drives away outstate investors.
Fancy this, what incoming corporate CEO wants to live in the wasteland this debacle has fueled. Culture to a German Company is equal to capital profits.
Germans get it. GOP'ers don't. The more cunning of the Teapartisan fearing ninnies, that timorous covey of poultry, should not be surprised by the ugly outcomes. The other sheepish, including the clueless newbees, will be stunned and very adversely effected by the collapse of units in their districts. The acrimony and the gnashing of teeth; viewed as the parsimonious landscape of "hell" will be their abode.
The 'real people' are coming for your leather swivel chairs and your platinum promise of State-Funded Health Insurance for Life, and all those other bits and pieces that lured you, the current GOP'ers into public office.
Now you've been elected, you turn on your people; to become judas goats, bitter enemies, to your own district's working families; turning against your own first responders, teachers, and the school children who populate our hopeful futures.
Remember...Dictatorship is Ugly! Hell's fury via angry, offended voters is real.
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The Nation looks on as Michigan’s Ship of State steams for the Rocks with H.B. 4215 & Orders from the Bros. Koch
Dictatorship is "verboten": Snyder's disastrous H.B. 4215 hit National Media attention yesterday; Giving Michigan State Senators one huge last minute pause to reconsider passage.
The nation fully understands the utter folly of Nerdonomics in light of H.B. 4215. If the urgent pleas of firefighters, police and teachers were not enough; now ballooning national attention connecting State Republicans to impending civic disaster unfolds. Michigan became a Ship of Fools.
The national criticism should awaken the floundering GOP, led into this mess by Tricky Rick and his Engleresque advisers. OUTSIDE CORPORATE POWER, YES, THOSE BULLY BOYS, THE KOCH BROTHERS GET THEIR WISHES ON A SLIVER PLATTER IF THE MICHIGAN SENATE VOTES TO ADOPT H.B. 4215. The State of Michigan will be ushered into a long and highly bitter and contentious series of court battles over the dictatorial powers this bill seeks to impose, in a ham-fisted way, upon local units of governance.
Senators you have a chance to stop disaster.
You are there as a means of checks and balances, avatars of common sense. Common sense tells you the thrust of this action is WRONG FOR MICHIGAN. You know that the financial crisis is worsened by the $470 cut to K-12, and the abolishing of block grants to cities, towns, townships, and local units. Who is pushing these harsh cuts that absolutely guarantee that the unprecedented sweep of power vested in the "Emergency Financial Manager" will be widespread and disastrous? Rick Snyder. He's in big trouble. Change course, save him, save yourselves.
It's up to you our Senators. Be warned, correct your course or sail on o' Ship of Fools! Sail on!
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The nation fully understands the utter folly of Nerdonomics in light of H.B. 4215. If the urgent pleas of firefighters, police and teachers were not enough; now ballooning national attention connecting State Republicans to impending civic disaster unfolds. Michigan became a Ship of Fools.
The national criticism should awaken the floundering GOP, led into this mess by Tricky Rick and his Engleresque advisers. OUTSIDE CORPORATE POWER, YES, THOSE BULLY BOYS, THE KOCH BROTHERS GET THEIR WISHES ON A SLIVER PLATTER IF THE MICHIGAN SENATE VOTES TO ADOPT H.B. 4215. The State of Michigan will be ushered into a long and highly bitter and contentious series of court battles over the dictatorial powers this bill seeks to impose, in a ham-fisted way, upon local units of governance.
Senators you have a chance to stop disaster.
You are there as a means of checks and balances, avatars of common sense. Common sense tells you the thrust of this action is WRONG FOR MICHIGAN. You know that the financial crisis is worsened by the $470 cut to K-12, and the abolishing of block grants to cities, towns, townships, and local units. Who is pushing these harsh cuts that absolutely guarantee that the unprecedented sweep of power vested in the "Emergency Financial Manager" will be widespread and disastrous? Rick Snyder. He's in big trouble. Change course, save him, save yourselves.
It's up to you our Senators. Be warned, correct your course or sail on o' Ship of Fools! Sail on!
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Michigan's "Emergency Financial Manager Reform" is Bogus.
What passes as “emergency financial manager reform” is bogus. Don’t Buy Into It.
The Englerite Snyder strategists have overstepped, they are seeking to destroy collective bargaining by means of the backdoor device: H.B. 4215 is a cleverly designed device to force the cunning perversion of collective bargaining's framework as a cost cutting wedge. At the same time the proposed bill carries in it a threat to smash units that are being intentionally targeted by Snyder-driven cash shortages ($470/student in education, Huge cuts in Block Grants to Firefighters, etc.).
The bill empowers Snyder to strangle those units, vesting anti-democratic powers in the hands of "Emergency Finance Managers) slick attorneys already being trained by State Treasurer Andy Dillon and Pluckett/Cooney (Super High Fee Legal Beagles) to effect radical dictatorial rule and powers; as proposed in H.B. 4215; to effectively use collective bargaining as a weapon against labor and teachers, creating harmful and capricious damage to local government services.
Tricky Rick: Kill Collective Bargaining by the Inch by Inch Tricky Rick wants to see collective bargaining used to blow away opposition to his radical re-organization of Michigan's wealth out of the hands of those whose skills and career training have earned it into the hands of the constant whiners at the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and the bomb throwers at the Mackinac Centers' bawdy corporatist propaganda mill.
The News Editorial 3/6/11, ("Union attack on emergency financial manager reform is about protecting the status quo") acknowledges one clear fact; H.B. 4215 gives the Emergency Financial Manager "the power to break collective bargaining agreements that are deemed to be contributing to a community's or school district's financial failure."
Snyder Thinks He's Pulled Off A Coup As in the old story: One guy, too cheap to have my dog's tail bobbed as in the tradition vet method, so he fancied saving expense by cutting its tail off half-an-inch-at-a-time; because it's cheaper and so it won't hurt the dog so much, he rationalized. Thus with Snyder: The hurt, the acrimony and dissension inherent under the purview of H.B. 4215 is fiendishly divisive and long lasting its purposeful disunity. It will turn neighbor against neighbor; under government top-down outside pressure from Lansing many bad things will occur.
Remember when we lost local control over school operating costs under Engler's Prop A ? And now we pay the piper.
Tea Partiers Duped: Local Control Smashed - Big Government Smashes the Little Guy
This not what Tea Party people wanted when they called for local input and protection from excessive and coercive government intervention into how our money at the local level would and could be spent. This not why TPers voted in Legislators to do. They wanted Legislators who would carry out their wishes - protecting local revenues and rights-or so they said.
Wake up Teapartisans! You've been diddled.
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The Englerite Snyder strategists have overstepped, they are seeking to destroy collective bargaining by means of the backdoor device: H.B. 4215 is a cleverly designed device to force the cunning perversion of collective bargaining's framework as a cost cutting wedge. At the same time the proposed bill carries in it a threat to smash units that are being intentionally targeted by Snyder-driven cash shortages ($470/student in education, Huge cuts in Block Grants to Firefighters, etc.).
The bill empowers Snyder to strangle those units, vesting anti-democratic powers in the hands of "Emergency Finance Managers) slick attorneys already being trained by State Treasurer Andy Dillon and Pluckett/Cooney (Super High Fee Legal Beagles) to effect radical dictatorial rule and powers; as proposed in H.B. 4215; to effectively use collective bargaining as a weapon against labor and teachers, creating harmful and capricious damage to local government services.
Tricky Rick: Kill Collective Bargaining by the Inch by Inch Tricky Rick wants to see collective bargaining used to blow away opposition to his radical re-organization of Michigan's wealth out of the hands of those whose skills and career training have earned it into the hands of the constant whiners at the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and the bomb throwers at the Mackinac Centers' bawdy corporatist propaganda mill.
The News Editorial 3/6/11, ("Union attack on emergency financial manager reform is about protecting the status quo") acknowledges one clear fact; H.B. 4215 gives the Emergency Financial Manager "the power to break collective bargaining agreements that are deemed to be contributing to a community's or school district's financial failure."
Snyder Thinks He's Pulled Off A Coup As in the old story: One guy, too cheap to have my dog's tail bobbed as in the tradition vet method, so he fancied saving expense by cutting its tail off half-an-inch-at-a-time; because it's cheaper and so it won't hurt the dog so much, he rationalized. Thus with Snyder: The hurt, the acrimony and dissension inherent under the purview of H.B. 4215 is fiendishly divisive and long lasting its purposeful disunity. It will turn neighbor against neighbor; under government top-down outside pressure from Lansing many bad things will occur.
Remember when we lost local control over school operating costs under Engler's Prop A ? And now we pay the piper.
Tea Partiers Duped: Local Control Smashed - Big Government Smashes the Little Guy
This not what Tea Party people wanted when they called for local input and protection from excessive and coercive government intervention into how our money at the local level would and could be spent. This not why TPers voted in Legislators to do. They wanted Legislators who would carry out their wishes - protecting local revenues and rights-or so they said.
Wake up Teapartisans! You've been diddled.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Koch Brothers Sock-puppet: Michigan’s Teaparitasan Scott Hagerstrom Speaks Bluntly
"TAKE THE UNIONS OUT AT THE KNEES SO THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO FIGHT THESE BATTLES." - Scott Hagerstrom, Michigan Director of Americans for Prosperity
That's the game plan for Michigan from the Koch Brother bullies.
Today the Teapublican Majority in the Michigan Senate is expected to vote on H.B. 4215; a vicious Union-Busting Bill, very thinly disguised and presented in an opaque way.
Closely quizzed by voters from their districts, neophyte Teapublican members of the House are at a loss to explain what is actually in this bill and they, because they did not vet it properly: Failed to appraise, verify, or check for accuracy, authenticity, validity, the content and intent of this bill. Some have lamented, we had no intention of becoming embroiled in such low live politics when we came to Lansing to make a change for the better.
They're not yet even able to comprehend the ramifications and impacts it makes on the local communities that will be ravished by its contents, they need more time.
Still Snyder and his Englerite cronies are pushing hard for this bill now; while lying about its true negative effects and what its true purpose is.
Were there more public hearings and town halls where the public (which has had far too little information given them by media and no adequate time to contact their representatives) given a chance to gauge the impact, the Senate would not be acting today.
Denying the citizens a full and fair chance to appraise the bill and its negative and dictatorial impact is a very bad way to end Snyder's aborted honeymoon with the state. Rick's positive numbers are dropping like a giant Petoskey stone into quicksand.
The crazy of crazies about this rush to put-into-law is exactly a prime example of what the Tea Party faction HAS ATTEMPTED TO SAFEGUARD BY TAKING TO THE STREETS: With loud calls for local control and sovereignty, the right to appraise, verify, or check for accuracy, authenticity, validity, accounted for in the most direct way, these are VERY things that concern the Tea Party about their taxes. H. B. 4215 is one of the exact things Tea Party folk have taken up strong protest to stop cold.
NOW, TODAY, THE TEA PARTY IS BEING BETRAYED, right at home level H.B. 4215 cuts them down at the knees.
Do they know that they are being Shanghaied by these Tricky Rick shenanigans?
Scott Hagerstrom, associated with the extremist wacko Kalamazoo Jack Hoogendyk, claims to work with over 50 Teapublican Groups, as a Koch paid anti-union agitator, hired by Koch's Americans for Prosperity. The Koch Brothers want what they want. The Tens of Billions Brothers Koch have churned up Wisconsin and now they move on to Michigan having paid the eager Hagerstrom do Kochs' dirty work.
Moreover, today Scott Hagerstrom should listen to his mentor former Senator Hoogendyk, "this fight in Wisconsin will eventually lead to similar battles across the country, including Michigan as legislatures and governors deal with severe budget shortfalls." And even at that Jack is intelligent enough to know that Rick Snyder is on very thin ice.
This is true not only in regard to the extreme trauma H.B.4215 brings to local government elected officials (about to be put under the gun by the high powered lawyers at Pluckett/Cooney) but even more so with Snyder's attempts to tax retirement and pensions. Hoogendyk cites the Mackinac Center's harsh criticism of Tricky Rick's effort to clinch his argument his radical overhaul of Michigan's tax structure: Snyder's "move charges a retiree with a $40,000 annual pension $1,700 a year for choosing to remain in Michigan rather than move to sunny, income tax-free Florida."
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Michigan School Superintendents and School Boards: JUST TURN IN YOUR KEYS.
Superintendents, just go to Any Dillon's office and turn in the keys to your schools: The ramifications of the "Emergency Finance Manager" buried in the H.B. 4215 and radical provisions coupled with Snyder's severe revenue cuts to education, the coming outcomes mean dozens of school districts will be declared "at risk" and taken over by state government, even liquidated, can be avoided: Just turn in the keys.
The correct move for a public school superintendent (under these circumstances for a school district like Cheboygan, (which will get slammed with over a million dollar shortfall when the proposed Snyder cuts of $470 hit) has a simple answer.
Cheboygan may be among the first districts to go into legislative defined and mandated default; to then be taken over and run by the Emergency Finance Manager or state assigned "Firm" (which we know is Plunkett & Cooney: with expensive attorneys in the $400 per hr. range.)
The most sensible, most efficient, fair and simple response for the district: Just turn in the keys to Dillon.
We'll call it: Keys for Crisis, in the mode of the "Keys for Cash" program associated with bank housing foreclosures.
As the State's GOP/Teapartisan majorities fast track and blitz the legislative process; inflicting this "government takeover of local schools" using serious and unprecedented dictatorial powers; we who have asked the "newbees" realize that they, as with many more experienced legislators, have no clear understanding of the "Emergency Finance Manager's Extreme Powers and the severe impacts, direct and indirect consequences, for taxpayers and school children.
These impacts will be overwhelming. Ensuing legal battles will tie the Governor and the Legislature in court for years to come. When quizzed on details, Teapublicans are confused and clueless. Perhaps this is exactly why there is the Snyder Blitz in the first place; TAKE FULL AND SUDDEN ADVANTAGE; the rush to law appears to be an attempt to reach LONG SOUGHT goal by bamboozling both the public and the greenpea Legislature using the "bum's rush."
Superintendents, the Key to ENDING YOUR CRISIS will be very simple: Just go to Dillion's Office and turn in the keys to your district; put the entire stupefying Snyder-induced financial crisis right back where it started.
Gov. Snyder, you wanted to revenue-strangle local school funding, so now our schools are yours to own. Here are the Keys!
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The correct move for a public school superintendent (under these circumstances for a school district like Cheboygan, (which will get slammed with over a million dollar shortfall when the proposed Snyder cuts of $470 hit) has a simple answer.
Cheboygan may be among the first districts to go into legislative defined and mandated default; to then be taken over and run by the Emergency Finance Manager or state assigned "Firm" (which we know is Plunkett & Cooney: with expensive attorneys in the $400 per hr. range.)
The most sensible, most efficient, fair and simple response for the district: Just turn in the keys to Dillon.
We'll call it: Keys for Crisis, in the mode of the "Keys for Cash" program associated with bank housing foreclosures.
As the State's GOP/Teapartisan majorities fast track and blitz the legislative process; inflicting this "government takeover of local schools" using serious and unprecedented dictatorial powers; we who have asked the "newbees" realize that they, as with many more experienced legislators, have no clear understanding of the "Emergency Finance Manager's Extreme Powers and the severe impacts, direct and indirect consequences, for taxpayers and school children.
These impacts will be overwhelming. Ensuing legal battles will tie the Governor and the Legislature in court for years to come. When quizzed on details, Teapublicans are confused and clueless. Perhaps this is exactly why there is the Snyder Blitz in the first place; TAKE FULL AND SUDDEN ADVANTAGE; the rush to law appears to be an attempt to reach LONG SOUGHT goal by bamboozling both the public and the greenpea Legislature using the "bum's rush."
Superintendents, the Key to ENDING YOUR CRISIS will be very simple: Just go to Dillion's Office and turn in the keys to your district; put the entire stupefying Snyder-induced financial crisis right back where it started.
Gov. Snyder, you wanted to revenue-strangle local school funding, so now our schools are yours to own. Here are the Keys!
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Who guessed Snyder & TeaPublicans would brazenly put Michigan into further Depression
The "big" budget crisis in Michigan is not at all what it appears. It's capitalize on hard times, take maximum partisan advantage. There's a concerted effort across many states to achieve certain long-sought goals of the far right: Union Busting, elimination of public employee benefits & pensions, cut & shift the tax burden to ordinary people, cut welfare and unemployment, and unbridled attacks on public schools & more. Michigan has had budget deficits in the range of this one before, but never has it been mishandled as it is now! Michigan is being cut down, to achieve certain selfish objectives.
There's "big" trouble alright, it's a "big manufactured" crisis; hype piggybacked on the national crisis brought on by George W. Bush and cohorts-who singlehandedly brought down to near ruin this nation financially. TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS were ruthlessly harvested from working folk. And today much of THE LOOT sits on the sidelines UNAVAILABLE navailable to small businesses who desperately need it.
To do the kind of "blitz" legislation that is found in the current rush to pass House Bill 4215 (which literally disenfranchises communities governments and schools, puts in place DICTATORIAL CONTROL and throws out the vote of the people) and passes it on to the governor has another purpose. It's dirty politics: Revenge and Reprisals.
When the full scope of the Draconian "Cuts only" budget are announced by Rick Snyder, many of the Tea Party supporters want to know that there is in place (passage of H.B. 4215) A STRONG MECHANISM TO PICK UP THE PIECES WHEN DOZENS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS & LOCAL UNITS OF GOVERNMENT " WHICH WILL GO UNDER DUE TO SNYDER'S DRASTIC & UNPRECEDENTED CUTS having their direct debt-creating effect: A 33% cut in revenue sharing, with a harsh punishment factor to undercut pensions and benefits in units affected.
Raising taxes, if only for a short period, to get out of the state's crisis will look more than golden compared to the slaughter house/meat axe Snyder is about to apply across our state.
In the enumeration of the communities mentioned in the details of H.B. 4215 (now being steamrolled through the legislature on party-line votes) one finds these targeted "financial failures" are mainly minority/Black communities, some would say "who cares?" That's as it stands today. However, under the proposed legislation's sweeping new powers vested in Snyder Regime's complete control, by way of managers and "firms" appointed under Andy Dillon, could be bring down many other locations-both rural and urban. The axe will fall on many shocked and unsuspecting units.
Time to have more input concerning H.B. 4215 is desperately needed. The rush is the "bums rush" to mickey the public out of the entire process and achieve a Quickie: A huge partisan victory for those who ultimately favor "bankruptcy" for states.
How historically dangerous are these Know-Nothings; servants to Grover Norquist? And really who is Citizen Norquist that he should have command of our America?
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There's "big" trouble alright, it's a "big manufactured" crisis; hype piggybacked on the national crisis brought on by George W. Bush and cohorts-who singlehandedly brought down to near ruin this nation financially. TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS were ruthlessly harvested from working folk. And today much of THE LOOT sits on the sidelines UNAVAILABLE navailable to small businesses who desperately need it.
To do the kind of "blitz" legislation that is found in the current rush to pass House Bill 4215 (which literally disenfranchises communities governments and schools, puts in place DICTATORIAL CONTROL and throws out the vote of the people) and passes it on to the governor has another purpose. It's dirty politics: Revenge and Reprisals.
When the full scope of the Draconian "Cuts only" budget are announced by Rick Snyder, many of the Tea Party supporters want to know that there is in place (passage of H.B. 4215) A STRONG MECHANISM TO PICK UP THE PIECES WHEN DOZENS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS & LOCAL UNITS OF GOVERNMENT " WHICH WILL GO UNDER DUE TO SNYDER'S DRASTIC & UNPRECEDENTED CUTS having their direct debt-creating effect: A 33% cut in revenue sharing, with a harsh punishment factor to undercut pensions and benefits in units affected.
Raising taxes, if only for a short period, to get out of the state's crisis will look more than golden compared to the slaughter house/meat axe Snyder is about to apply across our state.
In the enumeration of the communities mentioned in the details of H.B. 4215 (now being steamrolled through the legislature on party-line votes) one finds these targeted "financial failures" are mainly minority/Black communities, some would say "who cares?" That's as it stands today. However, under the proposed legislation's sweeping new powers vested in Snyder Regime's complete control, by way of managers and "firms" appointed under Andy Dillon, could be bring down many other locations-both rural and urban. The axe will fall on many shocked and unsuspecting units.
Time to have more input concerning H.B. 4215 is desperately needed. The rush is the "bums rush" to mickey the public out of the entire process and achieve a Quickie: A huge partisan victory for those who ultimately favor "bankruptcy" for states.
How historically dangerous are these Know-Nothings; servants to Grover Norquist? And really who is Citizen Norquist that he should have command of our America?
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