Well…there was an interesting article in the Free Press today that compared the difference of two midwestern states…one run by dems on dem principles, and Michigan run by repubs on repub principles…want to guess which one is doing better…I mean after you get your car out of the huge pothole it just fell into here in Michigan. Of course, it’s the one, Minnesota, run on facts and sound economic principles…not Michigan that is run on ideology and wishful thinking by the crony capitalism that is the repub party. In Minnesota where tax rates on corporations are much higher than here in Michigan, they have enough money to fund their schools, fix their roads, revenue share with their cities and do the infrastructure spending that will pay off in the future with higher growth rates for all their citizens. One thing you have to note is that even with higher corporate tax rates, there is no big exodus of jobs…in fact, their unemployment rate is 3 points lower than Michigan and they have not hollowed out their middle class. Here in Michigan…taxes were raised on retirees, cut for corporations and you can see the results whenever you drive your car….as the roads pound it into dust since there is no tax money to fix them….cities crumble as revenue sharing tax money is given to the rich and corporations, and not one job is created except for more accountants for the CEO’s that have to figure out how to spend all of the new money the have gotten from those tax cuts. All the while these tax cuts hollow out the programs that benefit workers and make Michigan competitive…but the repubs just don’t give a damn about that since workers are just “takers” that take food out of the mouths of the rich. I think everyone needs to read of the failures of the repub economic policies and call them out on it…I have had enough…geez…
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I want to move to Canada…
Well…the news coming out of this country over the past few years has reached a point for me where I’m not sure it can be saved…the crazy asses on the right have ruined this once great country with their violent, hate filled lives that have spilled over into everything…the latest was this guy from Minnesota who had his house broken into once and decided he was going to kill the next people who did it…hid his car, loaded up three guns, started the video and hid in his basement waiting for it to happen again…oh, left his house unlocked, too…okay, I know, I have no sympathy for people that break the law but when did burglary become a death sentence? The incident unfolded with a 15 year old boy and girl breaking into his house, looking around and going down into the basement where the homeowner was waiting…the unarmed 15 year old went down the stairs and this guy shot him 6 times in the chest…and while he was dying, shot him in the head to make sure…then, the girl came down the stairs and this idiot shot her in the chest another six times…but since she was not dying fast enough, he put a gun under her chin and executed her….laughing all the time with glee. Then the guy calls the cops fully expecting to be treated like a hero but was arrested for first degree murder and the tapes show he couldn’t understand why…he thought it was just fine to kill anyone who he thought should be…after all, Zimmerman chased down Trayvon Martin, shot him and got away with it. The worst part is that after this guy was convicted, Sean Hannity went on his show today with nothing but support for this murderer….when does this crap start to have consequences for him? When does his support of crazies in Utah arming themselves and threatening federal agents have consequences? I’ve had enough of this gun and death fetish crap here…I think the UN should issue a travel warning about tourists coming to the US…when the dollars stop flowing, the NRA will be pushed aside by business and maybe some sanity will be restored…still want to move to Canada….geez…
Wisconsin and Minnesota…
Well…read a really interesting article somewhere today where economists compared the economies of Minnesota and Wisconsin and how they are performing in economic growth and job creation….one of the things that makes this really interesting is that Wisconsin is controlled and run by repub policies that are mirrors of what the repubs want to do and have done on a national level…and that is attack the unions, cut taxes for corporations, cut education funding and then have faith that this crap will work when it goes counter to accepted economic theory. Where has this gotten Wisconsin with Walker in charge? Almost 40th in job growth since Walker took office with only 90K jobs created when he made the election promise that his policies would add over 250K jobs in the first year of his term…and economic growth is in the bottom half of the states, too. Now lets look at Minnesota, a democratic controlled state that has embraced the unions, raised taxes on corporations, and has invested more in education and training…well, guess what? they are 5th in job creation, tied with another Dem controlled state, California who both have implemented fact based economic policies that look to help workers instead of corporations. Again, Minnesota is in the top ten in economic growth of any state, and they haven’t taken away womens rights or tried to decimate the middle class by taking away the right to organize. So, it’s pretty clear what works and what doesn’t…so, let’s remember that when ole Walker tries to lie his way into the repub nomination in 2016…geez…