A man from Ann Arbor crawled up on top of the Washtenaw County building to protest high unemployment.
Bill Riney who made an unsuccessful run as a democratic legislator for the 54th District in Michigan decided he need to make a statement, so he crawled up onto the Country building and spent the night.
Reading over the story on www.AnnArbor.com what a lot of commenter’s on the post missed is that while the people know that unemployment is a huge problem, the mainstream media throws it off as a “bother” to them.
If the media hammered this home and the fact that the democrats in DC and Lansing are killing our economy, then people like Riney would not have to climb a building in protest.
Obama spent $800 billion of our tax dollars with the promise unemployment would not exceed 8%, that flopped and now he wants to spend another $200 billion for the same thing.
This crawl to socialism was also a flop. Since the 40’s, democrats and the leftists elite’s have been moving steadily towards this goal and now it’s coming up to bite them in the ass.
While other countries like Great Brittan and Canada are trying to get out of tax funded government entitlement programs such as health care, the elitists in this country are trying to move towards it.
Government cannot stimulate jobs by spending more of our tax dollars and crippling small business owners. The best thing the Obama administration can do right now is to get out of the way and do nothing. The private businesses will grow the economy if they are allowed to do so.
Showing posts with label Michigan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michigan. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Man protests high unemployment
A man from Ann Arbor crawled up on top of the Washtenaw County building to protest high unemployment.
Bill Riney made an unsuccessful run as a democratic legislator for the 54th District in Michigan.
Reading over the story on www.AnnArbor.com what a lot of commenter’s on the post missed is that while the people know that unemployment is a huge problem, the mainstream media throws it off as a “bother” to them. If the media hammered this home and the fact that the democrats in DC and Lansing are killing our economy, then people like Riney would not have to climb a building in protest. Obama spent $800 billion of our tax dollars with the promise unemployment would not exceed 8%, that flopped and now he wants to spend another $200 billion for the same thing.
This crawl to socialism was also a flop. Since the 40’s, democrats and the leftists elite’s have been moving steadily towards this goal and now it’s coming up to bite them in the ass.
While other countries like Great Brittan and Canada are trying to get out of tax funded government entitlement programs such as health care, the elitists in this country are trying to move towards it.
Government cannot stimulate jobs by spending more of our tax dollars and crippling small business owners. The best thing the Obama administration can do right now is to get out of the way and do nothing. The private businesses will grow the economy if they are allowed to do so.
Bill Riney made an unsuccessful run as a democratic legislator for the 54th District in Michigan.
Reading over the story on www.AnnArbor.com what a lot of commenter’s on the post missed is that while the people know that unemployment is a huge problem, the mainstream media throws it off as a “bother” to them. If the media hammered this home and the fact that the democrats in DC and Lansing are killing our economy, then people like Riney would not have to climb a building in protest. Obama spent $800 billion of our tax dollars with the promise unemployment would not exceed 8%, that flopped and now he wants to spend another $200 billion for the same thing.
This crawl to socialism was also a flop. Since the 40’s, democrats and the leftists elite’s have been moving steadily towards this goal and now it’s coming up to bite them in the ass.
While other countries like Great Brittan and Canada are trying to get out of tax funded government entitlement programs such as health care, the elitists in this country are trying to move towards it.
Government cannot stimulate jobs by spending more of our tax dollars and crippling small business owners. The best thing the Obama administration can do right now is to get out of the way and do nothing. The private businesses will grow the economy if they are allowed to do so.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
2010 Michigan Republican State Convention
Yesterday (August 28th) at the Michigan Republican State Convention and motion was made to enter a second nominee for Lieutenant Governor; Bill Cooper.
The night before, the tea parties of Michigan had it’s own meeting to discuss the candidates among themselves to see where the people of these groups were headed with their voting.
Several days before the convention, I had asked if everyone was “comfortable” with Rick Snyder’s pick for Lt. Governor, Brian Calley and if not, lets have people through out some names so we could see what was available.
The name Bill Cooper came up many times, so Don Jakel of the Independence Caucus said he would talk with Bill see what we could do.
Bill accepted our offer and gave a speech at our tea party meeting.
The following day at the convention, the motion was made, seconded and then it was to be put up to a vote. The Republican Party stated that we would do a show of hands vote, which we of course loudly rejected to, first off because there were over 3000 in attendance and we were in an arena-seating situation and then to top that off, all the delegates were scattered in among alternate delegates and guests so who could decipher which “hands” were legitimate voting delegates.
Next the republican’s leaders decided we would have them stand… like this would be better count.
As we waited for the Republican Party to decide on how to handle the situation, Bill Cooper took to podium and proceeded to back out of the nomination.
Now a few things came immediately to mind; what did the Republican Party offer him to back out? And then apparently, he was not the man we thought he was.
Now my question to Bill is, what the hell happened here? I believe we have the right to know.
I should also mention that from my vantage point in the arena, I felt he had a strong chance of winning this nomination.
Another little bit of information on this convention; we had to wait two hours in line outside before we cold be signed in. The republican committee blamed the Breslin Center management for the delays stating “it was OK for a basketball game or concert” but not for a political convention of party delegates.
The Republican Party stated over and over again how excited they were about the number of delegates we had, but from the way they kept ramming things through before we had a chance to react and the way the we were inconvenienced, I got the feeling they were much more happier when there were only a handful of delegates that they could control.
The Tea Party had brought in a record number of delegates and we had an agenda that we wanted to fulfill. We are fed up with the business as usual and the old boy network in our government. These was a learning experience for us and believe me, the next convention will be different.
The night before, the tea parties of Michigan had it’s own meeting to discuss the candidates among themselves to see where the people of these groups were headed with their voting.
Several days before the convention, I had asked if everyone was “comfortable” with Rick Snyder’s pick for Lt. Governor, Brian Calley and if not, lets have people through out some names so we could see what was available.
The name Bill Cooper came up many times, so Don Jakel of the Independence Caucus said he would talk with Bill see what we could do.
Bill accepted our offer and gave a speech at our tea party meeting.
The following day at the convention, the motion was made, seconded and then it was to be put up to a vote. The Republican Party stated that we would do a show of hands vote, which we of course loudly rejected to, first off because there were over 3000 in attendance and we were in an arena-seating situation and then to top that off, all the delegates were scattered in among alternate delegates and guests so who could decipher which “hands” were legitimate voting delegates.
Next the republican’s leaders decided we would have them stand… like this would be better count.
As we waited for the Republican Party to decide on how to handle the situation, Bill Cooper took to podium and proceeded to back out of the nomination.
Now a few things came immediately to mind; what did the Republican Party offer him to back out? And then apparently, he was not the man we thought he was.
Now my question to Bill is, what the hell happened here? I believe we have the right to know.
I should also mention that from my vantage point in the arena, I felt he had a strong chance of winning this nomination.
Another little bit of information on this convention; we had to wait two hours in line outside before we cold be signed in. The republican committee blamed the Breslin Center management for the delays stating “it was OK for a basketball game or concert” but not for a political convention of party delegates.
The Republican Party stated over and over again how excited they were about the number of delegates we had, but from the way they kept ramming things through before we had a chance to react and the way the we were inconvenienced, I got the feeling they were much more happier when there were only a handful of delegates that they could control.
The Tea Party had brought in a record number of delegates and we had an agenda that we wanted to fulfill. We are fed up with the business as usual and the old boy network in our government. These was a learning experience for us and believe me, the next convention will be different.
Friday, June 11, 2010
What Part of NO Taxes Do They Not Understand?
Lawmakers in Lansing in the House Tax Committee are taking up four bills (HB 6217-20) that will expand sales tax to a number of items currently exempted such as: newspapers, movies, magazines and food items sold in vending machines.
They estimate that the revenue from this tax will be $40 to $55 million.
These officials that cannot say NO to a pay raise for state union workers during a budget crisis yet the show up with some huge stones to ask struggling tax payers and small businesses for more money.
The raise they gave these union workers will cost us $83 million, so apparently they cannot do the math as this will still leave us in the hole.
We are already taxed more than 46 other states in the union and the time has come to “adjust” a few things. Maybe it is time for a Constitutional Convention in Michigan so we can return the legislature to a part-time status; we know they won’t vote this measure in for themselves.
Call or write your representative and let him or her know how you feel about this and how you will vote in November if these bills pass.
They estimate that the revenue from this tax will be $40 to $55 million.
These officials that cannot say NO to a pay raise for state union workers during a budget crisis yet the show up with some huge stones to ask struggling tax payers and small businesses for more money.
The raise they gave these union workers will cost us $83 million, so apparently they cannot do the math as this will still leave us in the hole.
We are already taxed more than 46 other states in the union and the time has come to “adjust” a few things. Maybe it is time for a Constitutional Convention in Michigan so we can return the legislature to a part-time status; we know they won’t vote this measure in for themselves.
Call or write your representative and let him or her know how you feel about this and how you will vote in November if these bills pass.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Geoffrey Fieger
I listened to Paul W. Smith on WJR Radio Show this morning as he interviewed Geoffrey Fieger.
Mr. Fieger was on talking about the death of his brother, the singer for the band “The Knack” who had passed away recently after a 6 year battle with cancer, his recent movie about his life and times with Dr. Jack Kevorkian that just aired on HBO over the weekend.
Mr. Fieger then moved the topic to his election as the democratic candidate against then sitting Governor John Engler. Governor Engler won a third term by a landslide.
Mr. Fieger still believes that taxes must be raised in this state, even though we have lost nearly a million residents. Michigan’s annual budget bottom line they must have to stay in business is around $33 billion but for some reason, the legislators in Lansing are working with budget in $47 billion range. This is $14 billion above what is needed to cover operating expenses for the year.
We as citizens and residents of this state have had to take it on the chin and pear down on what we spend. Prices for everything have gone up; food, gas, electricity, insurance and our government still wants to raise taxes. Our salaries, dollar for dollar are what they were in 1998 yet the cost of living has more than doubled.
Mr. Fieger wants to know where the funds will come from if taxes are cut even more. Well, if we lost a million residents, wouldn’t one assume we have fewer expenses now? If was feeding 2 kids and they moved out to be on their own, my costs would certainly go down.
His thinking and his party are what is wrong in this state. The demise of Detroit and some surrounding suburbs comes from the destruction of family values by substituting a welfare check to replace the father in the family and embedding the idea that people are “owed” something.
Nothing is ever free and everybody needs to contribute their part.
Republicans are always accused of supporting the rich while the democrats are support the poor.
My take is that the rich provide jobs to those that want to work while the democrats supply welfare checks for those that don’t.
Liberals always want to give away money as long as it is not their own, that’s why they support Democrats; they take from the middle class to give to the poor while the rich hide behind tax shelters that the democrats create.
They make these rules and laws so complicated that only the rich can afford to hire the accountants and attorneys to navigate through them.
Mr. Fieger also believes that a republican will win the Governor’s race no matter who is running this November, I can only hope he is right on this note.
Mr. Fieger was on talking about the death of his brother, the singer for the band “The Knack” who had passed away recently after a 6 year battle with cancer, his recent movie about his life and times with Dr. Jack Kevorkian that just aired on HBO over the weekend.
Mr. Fieger then moved the topic to his election as the democratic candidate against then sitting Governor John Engler. Governor Engler won a third term by a landslide.
Mr. Fieger still believes that taxes must be raised in this state, even though we have lost nearly a million residents. Michigan’s annual budget bottom line they must have to stay in business is around $33 billion but for some reason, the legislators in Lansing are working with budget in $47 billion range. This is $14 billion above what is needed to cover operating expenses for the year.
We as citizens and residents of this state have had to take it on the chin and pear down on what we spend. Prices for everything have gone up; food, gas, electricity, insurance and our government still wants to raise taxes. Our salaries, dollar for dollar are what they were in 1998 yet the cost of living has more than doubled.
Mr. Fieger wants to know where the funds will come from if taxes are cut even more. Well, if we lost a million residents, wouldn’t one assume we have fewer expenses now? If was feeding 2 kids and they moved out to be on their own, my costs would certainly go down.
His thinking and his party are what is wrong in this state. The demise of Detroit and some surrounding suburbs comes from the destruction of family values by substituting a welfare check to replace the father in the family and embedding the idea that people are “owed” something.
Nothing is ever free and everybody needs to contribute their part.
Republicans are always accused of supporting the rich while the democrats are support the poor.
My take is that the rich provide jobs to those that want to work while the democrats supply welfare checks for those that don’t.
Liberals always want to give away money as long as it is not their own, that’s why they support Democrats; they take from the middle class to give to the poor while the rich hide behind tax shelters that the democrats create.
They make these rules and laws so complicated that only the rich can afford to hire the accountants and attorneys to navigate through them.
Mr. Fieger also believes that a republican will win the Governor’s race no matter who is running this November, I can only hope he is right on this note.
Monday, March 22, 2010
We The People, Really?
We can all agree that healthcare reform is needed, but what happened Sunday, and in the weeks leading up to it, was not the solution.
Democrat members of Congress sided with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama over the will of the people. Michigan’s own Democrat Congressional delegation—including Gary Peters, Mark Schauer, John Dingell, John Conyers, Dale Kildee, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Sander Levin and even Bart Stupak—gave in to the pressures of back room deals, steals, promises and turned their backs on the Michigan families they represent.
Because of their vote, Michigan families will no longer be free to make personal decisions about their own healthcare. They will be forced to pick from government approved packages that will be over-seen by 17,000 new IRS agents -- packages Congress decided were not good enough for them.
Because of their vote, for the first time in decades, taxpayers will be asked to fund abortions on demand, including late and partial birth abortions – statistics show this will increase the number of babies killed every year by 40,000.
Because of their vote, our children and grandchildren will be on the hook for the massive deficit the Democrats placed upon them.
Because of their vote, people that are in the their 20’s and 30’s that opt out of health insurance because they rarely use it, will be forced to buy it of face stiff fines.
Those of you out there that supported this bill, did you actually know what was in it? Nancy Pelosi didn’t know and she is the Speaker of the House yet she hadn’t read the bill and had no clue what was in it stating publically “We’ll have to pass it to see what’s in it”
The attitude of personal responsibility has been replaced with “I don’t care who pays for it” so long as I get FREE health care.
Free -- Well we’ll see just how free it is when everything we buy has a huge new price tag, when 700,000 more of us are out of work - when banks stop giving interest on savings accounts – and when doctors start leaving their practices and we have to wait for 3-4 months for cancer surgery like they do in Great Brittan and Canada.
How long will you wait to get involved? How much are you willing to give up?
Democrat members of Congress sided with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama over the will of the people. Michigan’s own Democrat Congressional delegation—including Gary Peters, Mark Schauer, John Dingell, John Conyers, Dale Kildee, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Sander Levin and even Bart Stupak—gave in to the pressures of back room deals, steals, promises and turned their backs on the Michigan families they represent.
Because of their vote, Michigan families will no longer be free to make personal decisions about their own healthcare. They will be forced to pick from government approved packages that will be over-seen by 17,000 new IRS agents -- packages Congress decided were not good enough for them.
Because of their vote, for the first time in decades, taxpayers will be asked to fund abortions on demand, including late and partial birth abortions – statistics show this will increase the number of babies killed every year by 40,000.
Because of their vote, our children and grandchildren will be on the hook for the massive deficit the Democrats placed upon them.
Because of their vote, people that are in the their 20’s and 30’s that opt out of health insurance because they rarely use it, will be forced to buy it of face stiff fines.
Those of you out there that supported this bill, did you actually know what was in it? Nancy Pelosi didn’t know and she is the Speaker of the House yet she hadn’t read the bill and had no clue what was in it stating publically “We’ll have to pass it to see what’s in it”
The attitude of personal responsibility has been replaced with “I don’t care who pays for it” so long as I get FREE health care.
Free -- Well we’ll see just how free it is when everything we buy has a huge new price tag, when 700,000 more of us are out of work - when banks stop giving interest on savings accounts – and when doctors start leaving their practices and we have to wait for 3-4 months for cancer surgery like they do in Great Brittan and Canada.
How long will you wait to get involved? How much are you willing to give up?
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