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    Tag: Pontiac

    Big Macs And Tatooed Baloney


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Mon Jun 24, 2013 at 06:30:20 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Welfare, Federal Overreach, Rick Snyder, Medicaid, Liberty, US Constitution, Health Care, Obamacare, Rights, Pandering, Morals, Ethics, State Senate, Compassion, Charity, Insurance, Detroit, Saginaw, Flint, Benton Harbor, Pontiac, Michiganders, Dependence, Forever Is A Long Time (all tags)

    Compassion does not necessarily equal ethical behavior.

    What someone might call "the right thing to do," might be anything but that. Especially if it requires that a crime be perpetrated in order to follow through.  Most acts of compassion by an individual cannot be questioned.  It is self sacrifice; or giving, that heals, nurtures, grows, etc.  It becomes a very different act when perpetrated through coercion upon some for the benefit of others.

    The affordable care act is one of those "right things to do" according to its supporters.  However, it is also one of those things which has no authority as an enumerated power defined in the constitution.  The federal government has no authority to act on state's issues such as health care, welfare, and schooling.  Only the broadest interpretation of commerce issues allow it to assume other responsibilities such as labor and transportation, but those come from the weak links established through a lazy practice known as case law, and precedent.

    The federal government has no reason to be involved in, or managing the critical aspects of our lives.  The mantra of "Its the law of the land"  be damned.  We still have a constitution, as damaged as it might be through neglect and cowardice.  It provides absolute protections from authority to the people, and to the states which those people reside.

    Unless those states and people surrender to that authority.

    Continued below

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    Money for Dredging is a Problem?


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Thu Mar 07, 2013 at 03:22:09 PM EST
    Tags: Hooray for Hollyweird?, Bill Ford, Silverdome, EFM, Pontiac, Crony Capitalism, That's Bulls#!t, Waterways, Harbors, Harbor of Refuge, Commerce, Littoral Property, Watercraft, registration fees, gas tax, Sales Tax, Tourism, Dredging, HB 4197, SB 0164, One Term Nerd (all tags)

    Consider this a double feature with CS, and Jarrett Skorup at Mac Center

    The Disney blockbuster "Oz: The Great and Powerful" opens tonight. The film cost the studio about $200 million to make, but Michigan taxpayers chipped in substantially for the production through the state's generous film subsidy program. In fact, the state paid more per taxpayer than the average price of a movie ticket - Michigan residents should be seeing the film for free.

    Michigan has 4.5 million individual taxpayers, and the state gave the film studio $39.7 million to shoot in Pontiac. That works out to a subsidy of $8.82 per taxpayer while average ticket prices nationwide are $7.96.

    The subsidy was granted in 2010 when the program refunded up to 42 percent of Michigan expenses to film makers - essentially a check from the treasury to Hollywood studios. The program expired, but the Legislature, dominated by Republicans, overwhelmingly decided to keep it around.

    Despite "conservatives" who claim to not like the government picking winners and losers and "liberals" who say government shouldn't benefit large corporations and big business, Michigan politicians continue to spend taxpayer money on the program. The state has budgeted $50 million  this year with political leaders on both sides of the aisle pushing for more.

    REST

    What total crap.  Lansing could only find a way to free up 29% of the monies for maintaining our waterways in comparison to what Hollywood ripped off on one movie filmed in a mismanaged broke-ass city with an EFM.  You read that right.  $11.5M, and STEALING $8.7M from projects already underway to pay for dredging.

    The Governerd's half billion dollar piggy bank?  Hands off.  Damn near $40M in our tax dollars sent to Disney with assets totaling $74.8 Billion?  No problem.  The Water Wonderland?  Take a hike.

    This is why politicians are despised.

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    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    Low Information And White Elephants


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Sun Jan 27, 2013 at 04:57:26 PM EST
    Tags: Amtrak, Chicago, Corporatism, Cronyism, Detroit, Gifts, Maintenance, MDOT, Pontiac, Rail, Recalls, subsidies, Trains, Troy, Low Information Voters, White Elephants (all tags)

    Troy had the right idea, and the right Mayor.

    Once upon a time.

    Mayor Janice Daniels in December of 2011 led the opposition in the Troy City Council for an $8.5 million train depot for good reason.  Her opposition to a project that would be built with free money was framed with an understanding that nothing is truly free.  Even after the project was stripped down a month later, and re-presented for a couple million less, she held her ground, and looked at the bigger picture.  Ongoing expenses make the continuing use of the pusher-man's product not nearly as euphoric as when it was offered for free.

    The Troy City Council didn't get it, and the vote for the effort was shifted. Even in the face of the citizen commentary that was recorded as 11-7 in opposition to the transit center.  As RightMichigan.com poster Rougman pointed out at the time, its $5,500/sq ft cost was stripped down to $3,100/sq ft (a travesty for its cheapness) and the gold plated accoutrements would have to be withheld.

    "By shaving off 400 square feet the project's cost has been lowered significantly. That was some expensive square footage there--roughly coming in at $5,500 per square foot. The smaller and redrawn project will cost a mere $3,100 per square foot which I find absolutely alarming...what kind of slum are these bureaucrats trying to push over on us? No gold toilet seats? No granite counter tops?"

    Indeed.

    Continued below the fold.

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    Yo-ho! Yo-ho! A Pirate's Life For Me...


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Mon Mar 05, 2012 at 01:40:20 PM EST
    Tags: PA 72, PA 4, PA 4.1?, Gov. Blanchard, Gov. Granholm, Gov. Snyder, Robert Davis, Highland Park Public Schools, Fraud, AG Schuette where are you?, Ecorse, Jonathan Brown, Dr Walter Burt, Pontiac, Benton Harbor, DPS, Detroit?, So what is YOUR solution?, Dr Jumanne Sledge, Now add Inkster Schools to the equation (all tags)

    Didn't care for the $4M additional taxpayer dollars going to float the Highland Park School District?  Then brace yourselves for the Pontiac School District $159,922,531 abyss:

    And when the waters get too hot there, it's time to hoist anchor and set sail for...

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    Stupidity should be painful.


    By KG One, Section News
    Posted on Sun Feb 26, 2012 at 08:29:59 AM EST
    Tags: PA 72, PA 4, PA 4.1?, Gov. Blanchard, Gov. Granholm, Gov. Snyder, Robert Davis, Highland Park Public Schools, Fraud, AG Schuette where are you?, Ecorse, Pontiac, Benton Harbor, DPS, Detroit?, So what is YOUR solution? (all tags)

    This very important lesson was imparted to me when I had began driving for a living several decades ago by a wise trucker.

    Maybe because I had more co-workers who had more conscience about training me at that time, or they were just superior to the people turning out the "young guns" nowadays, but I understood this axiom very clearly even back then, and over the years, have gained a greater appreciation for it.

    It is also a lesson that I found is easily and very applicable outside of trucking.

    Am I trying to change the focus over from politics to Trucking?

    Not exactly.

    {Details below the fold}

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    PRIMARY DISCUSSIONS STARTING TODAY


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Mon Jul 18, 2011 at 08:56:30 AM EST
    Tags: MICHIGAN FAITH & FREEDOM COALITION, Michigan, Selection process, Republicans, GOP, President, Closed Primary, Open Primary, Caucus, Convention, Wyoming, Traverse City, Pontiac (all tags)


    MICHIGAN FAITH & FREEDOM COALITION


    MICHIGAN GOP PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION TOWN HALLS

    Concerned Citizens, MI GOP State Committee Members & Grassroots Activists Invited to Voice Opinion in a Transparent Series of Forums

    The Michigan Republican Party's State Committee is scheduled to choose a method of selecting the Republican Presidential Nominee for Michigan on Saturday, August 13, 2011.  Additionally, the Michigan GOP's State Committee's Policy Committee is slated to make a decision on Tuesday, July 12th.  Their vote will recommend to the full State Committee which process should be followed in Michigan regarding selecting the GOP's nominee by Michigan Republicans and possibly the general public.  However, many feel that we have not yet had an open and transparent process to solicit the opinions of grassroots activists and concerned Republicans across the state.  Please join us as we have an open discussion about the options to determine the next GOP Presidential nominee.  We have invited elected Michigan Republican State Committee Members, party leaders, grassroots activists and concerned citizens to listen to each other so that the Michigan Republican State Committee can make an informed decision on this critical topic for our important state and nation.  

    More Below

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    Tea Party After Action Reports


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Thu Apr 15, 2010 at 10:01:28 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Pontiac, Sterling Heights, Lansing, Traverse City, Tea Party (all tags)

    The Other Club - Lansing Tea party

    The Blog Prof - Sterling heights

    The Blog Prof - Pontiac

    MTTM - Infiltrators DO exist!

    Please add your links!

    (19 comments) Comments >>

    Obama administration kills Pontiac today; AIG still unpunished


    By Nick, Section News
    Posted on Mon Apr 27, 2009 at 07:31:53 AM EST
    Tags: GM, Pontiac, Chrysler, Fiat, Big 3, Obama, Congress, bailout, unemployment, Chapter 11 (all tags)

    Update [2009-4-27 8:34:36 by Nick]: GM says 21,000 jobs are going die alongside Pontiac. Ouch.

    Big week, boys and girls.  Big week for Detroit, for Michigan and for hundreds of thousands of moms and dads and kids and... you get the idea.  With Big 3 restructuring deadlines lurking here and there dominos are already starting to fall in what will probably prove to be a few of the most important days in the history of Motor City.

    The bottom line question, after we cut through the filler and the nonsense and the periphery issues... the heart of the matter is whether or not metro Detroit will survive in any meaningful way.  Heading into the weekend there was a serious chance that Chrysler, LLC could be completely liquidated via Chapter 11 bankruptcy which would have put an estimated 300,000 Michiganders out of work.  Friday deadlines lurked in the distance and the company's would-be-"savior," Fiat, continued to insist on significant UAW concessions.

    And they got some.  THANK GOODNESS meets OUCH (probably).

    Read on...

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