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    Tag: stimulus

    McDowell Lies About Cutting Spending


    By FrustratedYouth, Section News
    Posted on Thu Oct 18, 2012 at 04:21:19 PM EST
    Tags: Benishek, McDowell, MBT, Michigan Business Tax, Obamacare, Granholm, Stimulus (all tags)

    Gary McDowell's latest commercial says "The Democrats don't want to cut the spending."

    But I ask you this Gary, when have you ever wanted to cut spending?  I remember a certain former state rep. who voted for the Granholm Stimulus, the Michigan Business Tax and supports Obamacare!

    (1 comment, 437 words in story) Full Story

    Great Failures In The Great Lakes State


    By RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Section News
    Posted on Wed Jul 14, 2010 at 12:56:52 PM EST
    Tags: Michael Steele, economy, Obama, Michigan, unemployment, stimulus (all tags)

    While the White House will try to paint a rosy scenario in Michigan, President Obama needs to be reminded of his great failure in The Great Lakes State

    (3 comments, 327 words in story) Full Story

    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    Buyer Beware


    By RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Section News
    Posted on Fri Jun 04, 2010 at 12:13:35 PM EST
    Tags: Michael Steele, economy, Obama, Michigan, unemployment, stimulus, Joe Biden, jobs, Virg Bernero, Andy Dillon, Mark Schauer, Gary Peters (all tags)

    Let's get Michigan's economy back on track!

    (3 comments, 327 words in story) Full Story

    We're Number 7! We're Number 7!


    By The Wizard of Laws, Section Multimedia
    Posted on Wed Oct 21, 2009 at 04:07:16 PM EST
    Tags: Enchanted Mitten, jobs, rankings, stimulus, The One, Tinkerbell (all tags)

    Cross-posted in The Wizard of Laws

    Oh boy, the figures are rolling in on The One's stimulus package and that unbelievable recovery we're in! And the Enchanted Mitten is number 7 in the latest rankings!  

    (9 comments, 375 words in story) Full Story

    Making the tough, RIGHT decisions (and telling the devil where to go)


    By Nick, Section News
    Posted on Thu Jun 25, 2009 at 07:34:38 AM EST
    Tags: Senate, stimulus, Satan, Democrats (all tags)

    Financially this decision might have been one of the easiest.  But props, this morning, go out to the Senate Republican Majority for taking yesterday what many members likely considered one of the toughest stands politically they've taken all session year.  

    With Michigan's budget deficit ballooning to cartoonish proportions and tax revenue plummeting every time analysts dare peek, there's still a move afoot, championed in the liberal media, created by Congressional Democrats and carried out locally by Lansing Lefties (whoa! Alliteration!) to dramatically increase spending in the now and over the long term.

    Yesterday in the Michigan Senate the Democrat Minority acted like children, stamped their feet and threw a proverbial hissy fit in an attempt to convince the Republican Majority to buy them something they knew the taxpayers couldn't afford.  Thank goodness the Republicans acted like the adults in the room and rejected the Faustian exchange.

    At issue was $140 million in new federal "stimulus" cash targeted at increasing unemployment payments for everyone who has lost his or her job during six-plus years of the Granholm-Cherry economy.  And free money is always a good thing, except of course when it isn't free.

    According to the Associated Press there's one whopping string attached to that cash.  Had the legislature accepted it we'd get that nice fat check to cover this year's rate spike but we'd specifically and intentionally be on the hook for the increased payments into perpetuity.  

    That's the genius (and the sickness) of Congressional Democrats "stimulus" plan.  They are attempting to bribe state legislatures into making radical long term policy and spending changes with giant sums of short term cash.  It's a familiar scheme... I think it's what folks refer to as "selling your soul to the devil."

    Amazing benefits now in exchange for an eternity of service to the dark lord.  

    And just like Satan, if you turn down Democrats they're going to try to make your life a living hell.  

    By blocking the Dems' attempt at woefully irresponsible spending Mike Bishop and the Senate Republicans expose themselves to the inevitable fiery slings and arrows of the campaign trail.  'They turned down free money,' the Dems will proclaim.  'They don't care about the unemployed,' they'll continue.  'Cruel and heartless,' the FREEP will inevitably opine.

    Listen, it always stinks to say "no" and to admit we as a state can no longer afford to do every nice thing we might like but that's part of that whole "leadership" and "responsibility" thing.  And believe me... a little more pain now is better than a whole lot of perdition later.

    Now, if you'll excuse me, I've suddenly got Stryper on the brain...

    (4 comments) Comments >>

    The Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plant in Rogers City, Michigan, Part 6


    By jenkuz, Section News
    Posted on Wed Jun 10, 2009 at 11:51:04 PM EST
    Tags: Global Warming, Michigan, Stimulus, coal, industry, jobs, power plant (all tags)

    The Citizens for Environmental Inquiry, in their never ending quest to kill the Wolverine Clean Energy Venture, filed a lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in Ingham County Circuit Court, five months after the group demanded the DEQ regulate CO2 as a pollutant.  The DEQ didn't respond to their demand within 90 days, so CEI filed the suit because, "my clients can no longer delay measures to assess and control the millions of tons of global warming pollution that can be released," said retired Judge Swallow, CEI's legal counsel.  Seven people in Rogers City must be heard.  The Advance reported that, "In filing this lawsuit, CEI is very much aware that Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the nation and Presque Isle County has the highest in Michigan."

    In late March, 2008, Wolverine asked the County Planning Commission to amend it's original special use permit to include the burning of biomass.

    Up until now, there had been two groups interested in killing the power plant.  The seven people of CEI, all locals who believed Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and a man from Traverse City who gets his money from San Fransisco, Tom Karas (Michigan Energy Alternatives.)  However, the Planning Commission meeting attracted more outsiders.

    (2 comments, 212 words in story) Full Story

    RightMichigan Exclusive: An Interview with Representative Jim Stamas (R-Midland)


    By Nick, Section News
    Posted on Fri May 08, 2009 at 06:40:10 AM EST
    Tags: Stamas, House, Interview, Exclusive, DEQ, Child Safety, Deficit, stimulus, Midland (all tags)

    We talk so often here about the things that are going wrong in Lansing and what the tax-and-spenders are up to that I think it's important to check in with the good guys from time to time to get their take on the issues facing taxpayers and the legislature today.

    The GOP House minority continues to sponsor and introduce legislation, to work behind the scenes and to try to figure out some sort of positive solution to this tax-hike / budget mess.

    We rarely hear about that in the MSM.

    Being a member of a legislative minority makes it tough to garner headlines. But they're working hard and they're trying to make a difference.

    This week I spoke with freshman Representative Jim Stamas (R-Midland).

    Interview after the break...

    (972 words in story) Full Story

    RightMichigan Exclusive: An Interview with Representative John Walsh (R-Livonia)


    By Nick, Section News
    Posted on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 01:31:37 PM EST
    Tags: Exclusive, Interview, John Walsh, Livonia, MBT, transparency, spending cuts, stimulus, House, Dillon (all tags)

    We talk so often here about the things that are going wrong in Lansing and what the tax-and-spenders are up to that I think it's important to check in with the good guys from time to time to get their take on the issues facing taxpayers and the legislature today.

    The GOP House minority continues to sponsor and introduce legislation, to work behind the scenes and to try to figure out some sort of positive solution to this tax-hike / budget mess.

    We rarely hear about that in the MSM.

    Being a member of a legislative minority makes it tough to garner headlines. But they're working hard and they're trying to make a difference.

    This week I spoke with Livonia's freshman Republican Representative John Walsh.

    Interview after the break...

    (1724 words in story) Full Story

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