Well…while I was reading some political stuff today, one thing struck me…I am really, really tired of lying politicians whose views blow in the wind from day to day…whatever happened to telling the truth and being consistent? Whatever happened to politicians really saying what they are going to do and then doing it? Not doing what they all seem to do today…like our gov here…who never once mentioned during his campaign that he was going to raise taxes on retirees so he could give a 2 billion dollar tax cut to corporations who have not added one job for all that money. Or, saying he was not in favor of the right to work for less laws and then signing it after the repubs jammed it through the legislature? I’m just tired of all the lies and I am tired of hearing “they all do it”…why can’t they all just not do it? Geez…
Tag Archives: Rick Snyder
Labor day and Snyder…
Well…this little thought popped into my head earlier today and I thought I’d put it down here before I forget it…if this year is anything like every year, Labor day will bring another walk by the governor across the Mackinac bridge here in Michigan…and with that, you will hear him lie and say that labor is the thing that built our country and is the most important thing that will get it moving again…just don’t believe a word of it coming from Snyder…he does not believe a word of it no matter if it’s true…this idiot is responsible for the biggest attack on organized labor in the history of the state; the right to work for less law that was rammed through the legislature in a lame duck session, and one that Snyder said during his election campaign that he did not support…just more and more lies that come out of the repubs here in Michigan…then we have the transfer of wealth from retired workers to the CEO’s of the major corporations with the huge tax cuts for them while taxes are raised on us, the workers…so, whenever you hear Snyder or any other repub talking about their respect for labor…you can tell it’s a lie if their lips are moving….geez…
Snyder the liar strikes again…
Well…I wonder if anyone is surprised that there are new revelations that the Snyder administration here in Michigan had no intent in following the law or even good faith in the appointment of the emergency manager for Detroit…these folks went on and on that bankruptcy was the last resort for the city, but new e-mails have just been found that show that all of this was just a sham…that they wanted bankruptcy from the start and tried mightily to cover up that fact…one aide going so far as to ask how they could hold discussions that would circumvent the Freedom of Information act…that would keep their shennanigans secret from the public and allow them to cut back room deals that would lay the burden solely on retirees and workers of the city. But, do you expect anything different from the repubs? If you do after the right to work for less debacle, and all of the other shady deals that have come from this administration, I feel sorry for you…these folks are the typical repubs, jamming their extreme agenda down the peoples throats while working overtime to ignore laws they don’t like….I, for one, have had enough of these folks…they need to go…geez…
Idiots reign here in Michigan…
Well….has the stupid in the repubs here in Michigan reached it’s peak? Nope, not yet it appears…our wonderful gov and atty general here have decided to defend the discrimination built into the protect marriage act after a federal judge has said that the law is unconstitutional and has said that a suit by a same sex trying to adopt some special needs kids can go forward. The reasons to reject the couple’s claims that these idiots are citing are the same ones that the supreme court laughed at in striking down DOMA last month…but, that doesn’t deter the haters here…with Snyder and Schuette going so far as to say that the 14th amendment doesn’t apply…in direct opposition to the specific findings of the supreme court decision. So, the government here in Michigan is going to spend millions to defend a law that even a lay person can see is unconstitutional; pandering to their quickly shrinking base who are now far in the minority here…what happened to the will of the people? Just another instance where these righties have to do everything in their power to keep people that they hate from getting the full rights as American citizens…their time is numbered and I can’t wait until it ends and we can get back the America that doesn’t hate, that doesn’t try to limits rights for political gain, and that doesn’t do everything it can to subvert our democracy…geez…oh, and if you had any doubts, the people I’m talking about are all repubs…
Need to talk about Detroit…
Well…with all of the drama going on with the bankruptcy in Detroit, I felt the need to comment with the latest crap from our wonderful governor on the mess there…first, I will say that some of the troubles there are a result of terrible mismanagement of the city by the string of incompetents and thieves…but, the shrinking of the city from over 2 million to under 700 thousand and the flight of most of the manufacturing base has much more to do with it…and then you have ole Snyder saying there will be no state help coming while he taxes retirees and gives almost 2 billion in tax cuts to business who have not created one job for the corporate welfare they received…isn’t Detroit part of the state too? The ones I feel the worst for are the retirees of the city of Detroit who are going to see their pensions decimated; getting only about 10 cents on the dollar that they were promised…and the bitch of it all is that they did nothing wrong…just worked their whole lives while the people in government they trusted screwed them over….but that is the repubs way of things…if you are unlucky enough to live somewhere where this can happen, you are just out of luck…you should have used your connections to get rich instead of working…what a bunch of crap….geez…
More secrecy from the idiot Snyder…
Well…if it wasn’t bad enough when our gov here in Michigan, Snyder, conspired in secret with the tea partiers in the lame duck session to jam through the right to work for less legislation and many new abortion restrictions, now he is at it again with a secret group that is supposedly working on “eduction reform”. What kind of education “reform” will it be when reps from ALEC, lobbyists from tech companies, and avowed haters of public education are the only ones on this project? Where are the representatives of parents? Where are the representative of professional educators who live in the trenches and know what does and doesn’t work? None of these groups matter to this idiot thug whose only goal in this whole process is to lower the cost of education by the use of technology that has been proven to have no better outcomes than the normal public education. But, this just doesn’t matter to Snyder and his cronies in the legislature…their two goals are to lower cost so he can give more tax breaks to business and to break the unions that the repubs just hate so much….these guys just hate democracy…why else would they have to meet in secret? Just more of the same of the Koch and DeVos fueled ruination of our state…first in the race to be Mississippi….geez….
Snyder’s toast…
Well…just a short one about the happenings here over the past week or so on the potential matchups for governor in a year and a half….in a recent poll that was just done here…a generic matchup of Snyder against the dems find that he is tied with these generics….and the funny thing is that the people they used on the dem side were almost completely unknown…with more than 70% of the respondents saying they didn’t recognize the names at all…and the dems still tied Snyder…and, as more and more people are hurt by the nonsense this governor has pushed, and the fact that he rolls over to the tp’ers and their nonsense, people are starting to turn against this idiot and his secret agenda that he wouldn’t have dared run on…after all, who the hell would vote for anyone who was promising to raise taxes on the middle class and retirees and handing that money straight over to ceos so they could buy another lake house or Ferrari….I hope we all remember this crap in 18 months and send this “nerd’ back where he came from…geez…
Snyder and the repubs were wrong..again…
Well…with the overtly ideological and political passing of the right to work law here in Michigan, something that these liars said business was asking for, ole Snyder got a surprise at the Detroit auto show this week when he tried to use the RTW law as a reason for companies to move to Michigan…one little problem came up….the businesses that he talked to just didn’t care about RTW and most said it was not a major factor in business decisions. In fact, he was told by some companies that it would make them less likely to move here since it is such a divisive issue and will make labor relations more difficult…so, this whole nonsense is exposed for what it is, just naked hatred of the middle class and unions from the right paid for by the Kochs who don’t give a damn if they hurt the state, just as long as they get their agenda enacted. Geez…
Republican hypocrisy on accountability…
Well…I have been getting ill with all of the crowing our gov here in Michigan has been doing on getting his agenda enacted and the normal repub crap of tax cuts for business on the backs of the retirees here, and their constant mantra of accountability…but the infuriating thing that I have railed about before is that whenever the repubs talk about accountability, it always for the people and groups they don’t like, like teachers, and food stamp recipients, etc. What about accountability for the 2 billion dollars they took out of the people’s pockets and gave to business here? When this idiot pushed the biggest transfer of wealth to the rich in the history of the state, there was nothing in the law that said that this gift had to be justified by any “dashboard accounting” of the number of jobs that were created…just more of the “trust us” nonsense that is the core of the repubs relationship with business. When a basic accounting is done, the estimates are coming in that say that job growth has not been affected one iota by this largess to business…with the majority of the money just going into corporate profits and executive bonuses. So, retirees here in Michigan, you have given up a vacation or a new car, or paying your bills on time just so the repubs you voted for can give that tax money to the already wealthy so they can buy the fourth or fifth car or the new summer home in Harbor Springs….I wonder if they will let you visit it? Oh, that’s right, you don’t have the money for the gas to get there…geez…
Snyder is still an idiot…
Well…it is with some satisfaction that I have been following the plunge in approval ratings of the idiot Snyder here in Michigan and I’m even more heartened with the same happening to the ratings of all repubs here….ole Snyder’s have fallen 28 points in the past two weeks after he screwed the people of Michigan with his stealth approval of right to work here…I have one question for him…if every state is right to work, where is the competitive advantage he is touting? As always, the repubs are leading the race to the bottom for workers while they continue to protect their rich donors….but, this time I think that they miscalculated and we will take back the entire state from them in the next election…we will be motivated and have the boots on the ground with issues that the people approve of…not just the money of the Koch’s and DeVoses….and one thing we have to remember is that all of this lame duck crap they have pulled can be reversed if we take back the legislature…including the 1.7 billion dollar giveaway to business financed on the back of the middle class and retirees….geez…