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Even the Shredder knows $1.32 billion minus $300 million is more than $0By Nick, Section News
BIIIIIIIIG DAY today. Big enough that it required eight "I"s and full caps. If something can be happening in the universe, err, well, in Michigan, then it is and it is happening today.
First and foremost, it is an election day. If you're reading this, the polls are open and you haven't yet, stop everything you're doing and go vote. There are tax hike proposals in seemingly every city, township and village in the State and far left extremists running for just about every school board seat available anywhere. No, seriously, go vote. We'll wait... ... ...... .......... Back? What took you so long? If you're in Detroit we already know it wasn't long lines, so don't try that excuse. The Detroit News reports this morning that a measly fifteen percent of the registered voters in the D are expected to cast a ballot today to elect the city's next mayor. Suppose that's what happens when you get a race between a pair of Democrats who are much more alike than they'd have you believe. Don't give the voters a choice then don't be surprised when they don't bother showing up to make one. Not even the 200,000 phantoms on the books. Meanwhile, an hour and a half to the west, the Granholm-Cherry administration is set today to unveil their sweeping, shocking, devastating, budget-balancing spending cuts. Except that they aren't sweeping, they certainly aren't shocking, the Dems' core constituency won't be devastated and they don't balance the budget. Other than that, though, the administration is pitching a perfect game. Read on...
A lot has been made in the MSM the last couple of days about the Governor's decision to (pretend to) balance the budget on the backs of Michigan's first responders. The Associated Press reports that a total cut of $300 million will include $40 million sliced from local revenue sharing, effectively giving every Lefty in the state the green light to ignore the fungiblity of money and lament the sudden necessity to lay-off cops and firefighters. (Because trimming the local Mayor's staff and salary would make too much sense, apparently.)
Back at the Capitol the Governor will lead the way by laying off 100 state police officers. Meanwhile, she's going to stick the thousands of bureaucrats who don't protect our streets with six whopping days of unpaid leave. 100 cops lose their jobs. 10,000 pencil pushers get an extra week of vacation this summer. "I feel safer already." (Name that Bill Paxton movie.) And in all of this, our state's top elected officials, Governor Jennifer Granholm and Lieutenant Governor John Cherry, two experienced, learned, college educated adults seem to have forgotten their basic arithmetic. Try to stay with me on this one... $1,320,000,000.00 minus $300 million leaves a balance of $1,020,000,000.00. $1.02 BILLION. Not zero. I know, I know. Stimulus funds. One-time budget fixes. So what happens next year when that one-time money is long since burned and gone? Say hello to the tax man. Just about enough to make a guy want to turtle up and hide for the rest of the Democrat's in the Governor's office. And speaking of turtles... (that was a hot segwey, right?) Easily the BIIIIIIGGEST news of the morning... the Ivory Tower reports that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will park their Party Bus outside Comerica Park tonight as a part of their 25th Anniversary Celebration.
Which only proves the point in my own mind, with all of the other nonsense going on across the state these days, and today especially, that there is literally NOTHING that isn't quickly improved with a little Turtle Power!
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