... shut up bitch! and go fix me a turkey pot-pie..
that's going to be the answer, if you can get one, to anyone who questions the take-over of their town..
is this really what it means to be a Republican today?
http://www.politicususa.com/en/rachel-maddow-michiganRachel Maddow Exposes Michigan Republicans Secret War On DemocracyLast night on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show, Maddow explained that
Michigan Republican Governor Rich Snyder is pushing a bill through that will give ultimate governmental power literally to corporations, thereby using shock doctrine tactics to create a dystopian government. Synder’s bill not only goes after collective bargaining rights,
but does in fact seem to represent the Republicans’ final solution to killing democracy by enabling the replacement of elected officials, to dissolve entire cities government and hand them right over to corporations. Snyder calls his “budget bill” a “shared sacrifice,” but it gifts corporations with 1.8 billion in tax breaks while hitting citizens with harder taxes, including seniors and other vulnerables, and cutting essential services to an already suffering region.
this is some crazy shit.. a corporation can come into a local town and fire all the elected officials and then, take the town and run it for themselves.. and the Gov and GOP of this state is pushing for this bill that will allow this to happen.. the house already passed it..
he described the threat to democracy in Michigan, “Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget in Michigan is expected to cut aid to cities and towns so much that a lot of cities and towns in Michigan are expected to be in dire financial straits. Right now, Gov. Snyder is pushing a bill that would give himself, Gov. Snyder and his administration, the power to declare any town or school district to be in a financial emergency. If a town was declared by the governor and his administration to be in a financial emergency they would get to put somebody in charge of that town, and they want to give that emergency manager that they just put in charge of the town the power to, “reject, modify, or terminate any contracts that the town may have entered in to, including any collective bargaining agreements.”
The bill also has the power to suspend or dismiss elected officials, “This emergency person also gets the power under the bill to suspend or dismiss elected officials. Think about that for a second. Doesn’t matter who you voted for in Michigan. Doesn’t matter who you elected. Your elected local government can be dismissed at will. The emergency person sent in by the Rick Snyder administration could recommend that a school district be absorbed into another school district. That emergency person is also granted power specifically to disincorporate or dissolve entire city governments.”
Maddow said Michigan Republicans want to abolish entire towns, “What year was your town founded? Does it say so like on the town border as you drive into your town? Does it say what year your town was founded? What did your town’s founding fathers and founding mothers have to go through to incorporate your town? Republicans in Michigan want to be able to unilaterally abolish your town and disincorporate it. Regardless of what you as resident of that town think about it. You don’t even have the right to express an opinion about it through your locally elected officials who represent you, because the Republicans in Michigan say they reserve the right to dismiss your measly elected officials and to do what they want instead because they know best.”
I would be embarassed if this was my party..
seriously, this is the answer to Fox-made-up 'Obama-socialism'? stripping democracy right out of the country and installing corporation to decide for us?
we're so totally fucked.. the Rubicon is 10 miles behind, the fire is dwindling and what we see left are the smoldering ashes of a once proud country..
