Why are Snyder led Teapublicans so intent on generously enriching and empowering 3 major Granholm Democrats with local/public tax money? Andy Dillon, Michael P. Flanagan, and Henry B. Cooney, Plunkett/Cooney?
Insults go way beyond bifurcated politics. EFM's can be made emergency ready (with a full quiver of dictatorial powers of life and death over a governmental unit and total discretion over labor and employee rights) in two days, read 20 hrs training, and some spotty follow-up.
Based on the need to know and understand the local problems, accounting, special situations, and find workable solutions this, by itself, ridiculously inadequate training is especially specious and absurd. And over 200 apply? Dozens are already in the training mill, enrolling at a bargain price of $175 each.
The qualifications for public administrators, city managers, department head, and school administrators are highly trained and the standards for their positions; these requirements have been steadily increasing and tightening for decades. And soon a crop of neophyte walk-ons is going to take over in the heat of the coming "Snyder induced financial crisis meltdowns"? This is unbelievable and well beyond nuts!
Now a hoard of would-be, wannabe so called "Emergency Finance Managers"( is being run through a boot camp training mill run by Andy Dillon) makes a complete mockery of prior standards. The direct and drastic outcomes for the failing and failed units, forced to further fail by Dillon and Snyder, will drastically impact the necessary services of the individual taxpayers in ways that will be highly destructive and ruinously failed.
Have we gone this far into "planned failure." Why?
Why would Teapublicans be at all interested in a program (EFM) directly benefiting , granting huge new and undemocratic powers (DetNews: The law authorizes emergency managers to cancel contracts, dismiss officials, and dissolve elected councils and boards in communities and school districts that are operating at a deficit.), and financially enriching Granholm Era Democrats: Andy Dillon, Michael Flannigan, and Henry Cooney CEO of super legal beagles at Pluckett & Cooney-all major players previously in Democrat politics?
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
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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