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Tag: Frustration

And speaking of frustration... URGENT ACTION ALERT

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Wed May 11, 2011 at 11:23:04 AM EST
Tags: Government, Excessive regulation, Cold Medicine, Matt Lori, Michigan, Prescription Snot Blaster, Tracking, Pharmacies, Frustration, Allergies (all tags)

Remember last month when you made a phone call to State Representative Matt Lori (r) to tell him you expect better from him than his attempt to increase regulations, drive up health care costs and to criminalize your kids' cold medicine?

For a time, we shut it down. Just let that sink in for a minute folks. We brought out the light, and for a while, the threat of a sunburn kept this bad legislation indoors.

Unfortunately the cloudy skies over Lansing requires we sometimes must perform our Sun-Dance repeatedly. While our voices on the subject grew a little more silent with the satisfaction of a job well done, Representative Lori seems to have regained his own on the subject.

Apparently he hasn't gotten the message yet.

One of the nice things about blogging here on RightMichigan and over at MTTM, are the relationships I've been able to make with some great people in Lansing. This morning several little birdies started chirping that Representative Lori has decided to resurrect his big-government bill and to take a second swing for the fences after you folks rose up and spoke out last time.

Apparently he's been seen around the Capitol this week shopping for co-sponsors.

And below we go.

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Frustration Is

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Wed May 11, 2011 at 08:58:41 AM EST
Tags: Frustration, Control, Lansing, Snyder, Legislators, MBT, Taxes, Change, Labor, RTW, Right-To-Work, Michigan, Activism, Tea Parties, 912 (all tags)

For many of us:

Frustration is seeing an unprecedented opportunity to fix the labor hold on Michigan and watching that opportunity potentially slip away because legislators seem to have forgotten already, the force that hired them.

Frustration is knowing the CO2 scam has not yet been fully purged, and that there are still government implementations being put in place to solve the non-existent problem. Including in Michigan and even locally.

Frustration is seeing some of the good things like elimination of the MBT being accomplished not by straight out cutting, but by a shift to other victims.

Frustration is not having enough time to offer all the solutions we have properly, because those solutions are nearly immediately eclipsed by the next round of idiotic government actions designed to create more issues that complicate the previous ones.

Frustration is having a skill and not being able to apply it, because of an unconstitutional application of federal law, and the failure of the states to assert their authority, and protect the rights that guarantee the ability to use that skill.

I could add a hundred more to the list

Frustration is not an entirely crippling problem I have however.

Go below.

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