Oh, really, you're not trying to bust the Unions? So you're just fucking over the schools because what, you just don't like kids? You don't want them gettin too much of that fancy book-lernin?
Okay, Class. Who can tell me what the fuck Rick Snyder is thinking?
'Cause that's kinda what it seems like, since you're cutting the education budget at a time when there is "a projected $652 million surplus in the state's school aid fund for fiscal 2012." (source)
And one of your proposals to "improve" school performance iseliminating the minimum number of hours or days students must attend each year? Because, what, the problem with student achievement is that they're just spending too darn much time getting taught stuff?
But there's plenty of money to give businesses a $1.73 Billion tax cut, right? (source)
Although, to be fair, that cut is apparently paid for by squeezing more money out of Michigan's retirees.
Snyder’s proposal applies the personal income tax to public and private pension income, eliminates the Earned Income Tax Credit that low-income senior wage-earners rely on, scraps the $2,300 exemption seniors can claim on their returns and could lessen the value of the Homestead Property Tax Credit for senior households.
Because obviously, Ford Motor Company needs tax relief more than Grandma Oldenstein.
Seriously, Rick Snyder has got to be the worst governor in America.
When I first heard about Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's "Financial Martial Law" , I thought there was no way they would actually try to use it. I figured they'd use it as a threat to get municipalities to do what they wanted, threaten to take them over if they didn't fall in line, but there was no way they would actually do it, mainly because I can't imagine this law surviving a challenge in the courts.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - In one of his first acts under the new Emergency Financial Management law, which critics have described as a financial dictator law, Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Snyder stripped the people of Benton Harbor, Mich., of their voting rights and their elected officials last week.
Benton Harbor Emergency Manager Joseph Harris took over Benton Harbor's finances last year, but under new powers granted to Gov. Snyder by the Republican-controlled state legislature, Harris has claimed unprecedented authority.
Appointed to takeover the predominantly working-class, African American city, Harris seized control over the duties and responsibilities held by Benton Harbor's elected officials, its commissions, and its financial resources.
I'm waiting to see how many teabaggers show up to protest against this particular bit of tyranny. Hmm, none yet. Still waiting. . .Oh, here come a couple!
No, they think healthcare reform is tyranny, an entire city being ruled by one man with virtually un-checked power? That's apparently fine, I guess.
Oh, what about her?
No, she's upset that elected officials tried to govern according to the principle of majority rule.
So no, no teabaggers seem to be at all concerned about this gross overreach of power by Michigan's scumbag governor.
So why did Snyder decide he had to take over the city of Benton Harbor?
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reported that Snyder's emergency powers law allowed Harris to take the city's attractive lakefront public land and give it to a group known as Harbor Shores, which has been linked to the local Rep. Fred Upton, a high-ranking Republican leader in the House of Representatives.
Basically, it seems that they want to seize the town's public beach and give it to a developer to build a private golf course/housing tract. Watch the clip from the Rachel Maddow Show below for the full story.
So, yeah, congratulations teabaggers of Michigan! This is the guy you put in charge! Way to go.
