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Tag: Government Picking Winners and Losers

Governor Snyder, What Changed?

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Mon May 09, 2011 at 06:10:15 PM EST
Tags: Governor Snyder, Snyder Appointee Dillon, Government Picking Winners and Losers, Fleecing Michigan Citizens (all tags)

It was just last August after receiving an approving nod from GOP voters a shot could be heard that gubernatorial candidate Snyder fired across the bow of his then opponent Virg Bernero, "If you like how our government works, if you like how our bureaucracy works and our political system works, I encourage you to look at the other candidate. That's the world he lives in. That's the world he loves."

Sure, after 8 lost years of Democratic Party Granholm Executive and Speaker Dillon House leadership in Michigan that resulted massive annual increases in government spending, expanding their benefit packages, a government shutdown, a record setting tax increase, record high unemployment, and still calling for more tax increases even after Granholm borke her own word on taxes; that opening shot proved to be an effectively fatal one for Democratic opponent, Lansing Mayor Bernero.

Congratulations, Governor-elect Snyder. After that campaign message of a dysfunctional Lansing that chases business and citizens out of the state resonating throughout the election, Governor-elect Snyder became even more focused with a soon to be also gifted Republican Majority in the House and Senate in now officially holding the lever of Executive leadership, "Now government. It's time for bureaucracy to go away. It's been with us a hundred-plus years. It doesn't work. It is time for a new model. It is time for customer service government. The role of government is to treat you, the citizen, as the customer and look at life through your eyes and say 'How can we help you succeed and how can we get out of your way.'"

But, as the old expression goes, "That was then..."

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