The Punditguy linked to a story that is unfolding in Michigan.
Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer's bright idea is to pass initiatives for:
● Mandating all employers to provide affordable health care for all their employees and dependents or pay a penalty.
● Raising the minimum wage from $7.40 per hour to $10 per hour and covering all workers with no exceptions.
● Increasing unemployment benefits by $100 a week, making all workers eligible and adding six months to the time one can receive benefits.
●Cutting utility rates by 20%.
● Imposing a one-year moratorium on home foreclosures.
Over on the Michigan Democratic Party website,
Brewer is fighting back against the critics.
Greedy, Selfish Chamber CEO Calls MDP Ballot Proposals “Bull$@#*”
"Rich Studley's reaction is just what you would expect from a greedy, selfish corporate CEO who doesn't care about the suffering of millions of Michigan citizens," said Brewer. "While Rich Studley defends the excesses of his Wall Street buddies, the Michigan Democratic Party is fighting for the people on Main Street with these proposals."
I don't know how Michigan residents can stand this nonsense. When the local politicians make businesses the enemy, what should residents expect when they leave for friendlier places?
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Yes it's very surprising the UAW business model has come to this. If the greedy capitalists would just get out of the way they would surely all be drinkin' that free Bubble Up and eatin' that Rainbow Stew,
they would surely all be drinkin' that free Bubble Up and eatin' that Rainbow Stew,
Big Rock Candy Mountain
One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo hiking and he said boys I'm not turning
I'm headin for a land that's far away beside the crystal fountains
So come with me we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains there's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars are all empty and the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
Where the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains all the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft boiled eggs
The farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
Oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall and the wind don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too
You can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
There ain't no short handled shovels, no axes saws or picks
I'm a goin to stay where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk that invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
Is this the same Michigan who's chamber of commerce is advertising in CA and who knows where else for businesses to move there because it is business friendly?
Brewer's campaign will go over well in Tennessee.
Every time I see an add for the State of Michigan here I have to laugh. They actually think they are going to get businesses to move there. Not saying we are perfect here in Wisco, but no business in their right mind would locate (or re-locate there).
On a side note, I just got back from vacation in southwestern Michigan and the towns there are doing fairly well. Mostly tourists from Chicago. That area of Michigan has pretty much been reduced to tourism from what I can tell. They do have top notch beaches, that I have to admit.
When did we become slaves, or serfs, or what ever that we have to obey being ordered to do this and that outside a conviction in court for a crime?
Isn't there a thing about involuntary servitude in the constitution?
What's the limit, so long as we have, say, 1%, of our income, we are not slaves/serfs?
If the state wants people to have ten dollars an hour, then let the state tax and pay them. Where do they get the right, outside a conviction of ordering one person to contract with another?
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