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    Tag: Lansing

    Getting Health Care Policy Right


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Thu Oct 31, 2013 at 09:07:31 AM EST
    Tags: Greg MacMaster, Michigan, ACA, Health Care, Expansion, Welfare, Higher Taxes, Snyder, Cowardly Republicans, Obama, Tyranny, Washington, Lansing, IRS (all tags)

    State Representative Greg MacMaster (R-105) has provided a little insight to the past year's health care debate, and his participation in the process.

    "Bait and switch," a term he uses to describe the promises and ultimate product, is no stranger to any government program designed to help so many.  He writes:

    "In 2012, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that the United States leads the world in health care research and disease treatment.

    For the 85% of Americans that have health insurance, the access they have to cutting edge, life saving technologies is among the very best in the world.

    But not every American has insurance, with upwards of 49 million being uninsured, according to the 2010 Census.

    The question for policy makers in Lansing and in Washington should be what to do to help the 15% gain access to the quality care that the rest of us have.

    Unfortunately, Washington and Lansing's answer has been to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

    In 2010, Congress passed, and President Obama signed, the widely unpopular and flawed Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Among the provisions of this act is enticing Michigan to put an additional 300,000 citizens on Medicaid with the promise that the federal government would pay for taxpayers' additional costs.

    When the expansion was first voted on in the House, I supported it. This wasn't really Obamacare, we were told. This was Michigan getting its fair share back from Washington.

    It initially seemed like a good deal for Michigan taxpayers, who receive back only $0.80 for every tax dollar they send to Washington.

    But there was more to the bill.

    Continued below the fold

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    Whoa! Team Obama Flushes MDCR Fabrication - I Agree With Ozero's Peeps?


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Tue Jun 04, 2013 at 09:46:42 AM EST
    Tags: MDCR, Fabrications, Race Warlords and Poverty Pimps, Progressives, the Federal pow wow, the Slapdown, Lansing, Michigan, Virg Bernero, Chicken Little (all tags)

    Just catching up on some reading, and a good outcome caught my eye from mLive.

    A state agency says the U.S. Department of Education has dismissed a complaint that sought to end the use of certain American Indian mascots and imagery in Michigan K-12 schools.
    ....

    The decision means Michigan schools won't be forced to change their mascots, nicknames or imagery. But the Michigan Department of Civil Rights says it reviewing the decision and considering its next steps.

    What should be MDCR's next steps?  Howza 'bout your department try living in reality, and stop playing make believe games with the "protected species" card for a change.  It would be a good start for this state and nation.  Well, unless Malice Sharpton types are the goal for recruiting a new Executive Director.  Anyhoo, to the meat and potatoes.

    A letter released by the Michigan agency from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights provided some rationale for the dismissal of the complaint. The letter said the state agency didn't provide sufficient information to infer that racial discrimination has occurred or is occurring. The letter said the state agency "did not provide to OCR any specific examples of race-based incidents nor identify any students or individuals who have suffered specific harm because of the alleged discrimination at any of the named school districts."

    Ouch!  The Fed peeps from this dude's Land of Misfit Toys agenda not only told the MDCR that their envisioned "get to the back of the tipi" moment is a unicorn, but they also told the MDCR their "tipi" doesn't exist too!  What an embarrassing slapdown for some Michigan 'professional' Progressives.  The MDCR's Elizabeth Warren-esque shenanigans didn't hunt.  Either that, or on the Federal "protected species" ladder: it's muhammadans, then sodomites at the top, and somewhere way, way down on the lower rungs is injuns.  Considering the actions emanating from the Obama White Hizzy for the past four plus years, that'd be reasoned a safe bet in any casino.

    Ain't that right, Lansing Democrat, Virg Bernero?

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    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    Stealth


    By KG One, Section News
    Posted on Sun Apr 21, 2013 at 11:59:58 AM EST
    Tags: : F-A-37?, Nope, Gov. Snyder, Michigan State Government, Lansing, Public Education, Ummm no, Gas Tax Hike, nope but you're getting warmer, Tax hike, still getting warmer, Property tax hike, Whoa now you're getting red-hot, But how can they do that with Headlee protections in place?, The same way they have been doing it for months now, Could it be: Another authority?, Not this time, In case you haven't been paying attention...politicians from BOTH sides hate Headlee Limitations, But to make matters worse it's a tax hike without the approval of those it affects? Now you're on fire (in more ways than one), Betcha didn't know that they could do that did you?, HB-4147, Rep. Joseph Graves (rino-51), SB-307, Sen. Steve Bieda (Dem-9), Public Act 33 of 1951 (all tags)

    Most of you have probably aware of this term.

    You most likely associate it with the military making equipment and personnel less visible to detection methods.

    But did you know that this is also a tactic used in the business world?

    And if you haven't caught it already, our governor is a business guy and likes to adopt business methodology wherever he can to accomplish his agenda. Especially when he feels that his agenda won't go over very well with the people he purportedly serves.

    So what is he up to now?

    {Continue reading below}

    (2 comments, 966 words in story) Full Story

    90 Days Later - Zero Arrests


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Thu Mar 14, 2013 at 04:47:00 PM EST
    Tags: Public Sector Unions, Michigan State Police, Lansing Police Department, Assault, Destruction of Property, Goonion thuggery, Cops investigating cops, Wrong car, I'll shoot and kill you, Lansing (all tags)

    90 days have expired since charges were filed by Mr. Crowder, and AFP.  All I can say is, it's amazing.

    In other MSP related news, MSP investigates MSP Trooper who stopped wrong vehicle, threatening death with gun drawn down on innocent startled driver to be fit for patrol.  I know... color me surprised too.  Better blow more money graduating more of those "professionals" to be the armed protectors.  Frilliant.

    (12 comments) Comments >>

    Teamsters Image Rehab


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2013 at 08:40:09 AM EST
    Tags: Unions, Thugs, Obama, Julianna Smoot & Lon Johnson, AstroTurf, Bullies, Hoffa, Legacy, Mobsters, Labor, Freedom To Work, Heroic Legislation, Economics, History In The Making, Lansing, Michigan (all tags)

    Another Hoffa lives in denial of his thug legacy.

    Detroit News

    "We're trying to keep my grandfather's reputation back where it belongs," said his grandson, Geoffrey Hoffa, a physician assistant in Arizona. "Most people hear the name Jimmy Hoffa and have a negative image. They hear the Letterman jokes. It's a shame that people don't know more about what James R. Hoffa did and that he always stood up for the underdog."

    I wonder why the negative image keeps coming up when Hoffa is mentioned...

    Underdogs? They're called goonions for a reason, Geoffrey. It's also why Chicago/White House thuggery comes home to roost with the Johnson/Smoot MDP leadership infighting.

    (1 comment) Comments >>

    Freedom to Work Means Prosperity for All


    By David L Yonkman, Section News
    Posted on Sun Dec 16, 2012 at 01:10:51 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Right-to-work, Economics, Milton Friedman, Lansing, Unions, Big Labor (all tags)

    Failure to heed basic economic logic unfolded in an physically violent way last week following Governor Rick Snyder signing a bill that does nothing more than provide workers with the freedom to decide whether or not to spend their hard-earned money on joining a union.

    (628 words in story) Full Story

    Not A Cop To Be Found


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Tue Dec 11, 2012 at 02:01:14 PM EST
    Tags: Lansing, Way to go Virg Bernero, Typical Union Mentality, Thugs, Michigan, RTW, Freedom To Work, History In The Making (all tags)

    The Detroit News captures union thugs tearing down an Americans For Prosperity tent during a protest against Michigan's new Right To Work law.

    h/t mrctv

    (15 comments) Comments >>

    God Bless Our Troops


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Mon Dec 10, 2012 at 09:08:22 PM EST
    Tags: Lansing, Michigan, Thugs, RTW, Freedom To Work, History In The Making, FTW (all tags)

    Although I almost always mean our servicemen overseas, there is no doubt we have others to whom we will be indebted very soon.

    The folks who are in the midst of the Freedom to work battle, and occupying the AFP tents.  To the high power individuals who stepped up and put this over the top. To the folks who are in the midst of deliberations, and will have to endure the phone assaults, curses, and procedural tortures ad nauseum. And to our state police who will be expected to keep the peace with little or no help from Virg Bernero's personal security detail (the Lansing Police). To the folks at home giving strength to our besieged legislators. And last but not least, to the the workers who have endured the dignity robbing pain of supporting illicit and unacceptable political agendas of union leadership, simply for wishing to put food on their families' table.

    God bless you all tomorrow, and going forward.

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