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Tag: chihuahua

There are headlines and then there are HEADLINES

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 07:32:49 AM EST
Tags: Granholm, Cherry, 2010, budget, psychic, chihuahua, Blue Cross (all tags)

I never know when I wake up in the morning and flip open the laptop what is going to greet me. Sure, it is usually bad news (this IS the seventh year of the Granholm-Cherry administration after all) but even when the thunder clouds roll across the front page I tend to find myself surprised at how dark and ominous they can be... or at the sheer absurdity of it all.

Welcome to my Wednesday.

We've got the Associated Press working the budget angle, either months early or months late, depending on your perspective, because the state budget keeps hemorrhaging red ink to the tune of $5 million a day. "Gov. Jennifer Granholm, lawmakers working on Michigan budget plan" the headline announces.

"About dang time," I reply quietly, assuming I'll read about how the Democratic administration is taking the pending deficit seriously. "Never mind," I mutter as I realize that assumption truly is the mother of all... well... here, read for yourself:

Michigan is facing an estimated budget shortfall of $785 million in the current budget year, although that could grow as additional auto jobs are cut and the state unemployment rate increases. Money from the federal stimulus package will fill some of the budget hole.
But Granholm has said budget cuts will be needed even with the recovery act cash. Leaders of the Republican-controlled Senate and Democratic-controlled House have been meeting with administration officials on drawing up a list of what's expected to be more than $200 million in cuts and adjustments.

Emphasis mine. So much for taking ANYTHING seriously.

How many times did we here in 2007 that we NEEDED a record-shattering Democratic tax hike because A) it would balance the budget for forever and B) because we simply couldn't use one-time fixes anymore? Now here we are, only two years later with a massive budget deficit and the Granholm-Cherry administration is using more one-time fixes.

That sort of inconsistency is enough to drive a man to drink. Literally, in the 2010 Gubernatorial candidate's case.

And the hits just keep on coming.

Read on...

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