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Alleged
plagiarism in a study by an MSU scholar matters more than just as a violation of academic standards. The
deeply flawed study wildly exaggerates the amount that could be saved by consolidating Michigan school districts, which will divert attention from the
real solution to funding problems in Michigan public schools — scaling back
outsized employee compensation and
benefits. This is the second time in the last year that a flawed study was produced by an MSU professor that
serves the interests of government employees and their unions.
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Here's how important I think Angelo M. Codevilla's American Spectator article is: It makes me think of Thomas Paine's
Common Sense.
Excerpt: "Our ruling class's agenda is power for itself. While it stakes its claim through intellectual-moral pretense, it holds power by one of the oldest and most prosaic of means: patronage and promises thereof."
… morePublished on July 27, 2010 – Michigan Capitol Confidential
Yesterday, President Barack Obama and Gov. Jennifer Granholm came to Holland bearing gifts: cash subsidies for an electric car battery plant owned by the Korean firm LG Chem. The federal contribution is $151 million in "stimulus" money, and Michigan taxpayers are kicking in another $100 million. This means that each of the plant's approximately 400 jobs will cost taxpayers $625,000. At this rate, it would cost $5
trillion to provide employment to the approximately 8 million Americans who lost have their jobs in the current downturn.
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Efforts to break the political stranglehold by rearranging the institutional furniture at best consumes energy better spent striking at the real root of our problems.
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Tax Day Tea Party rallies were held across the state and nation last week, with mixed results in turnout. Regardless of the exact attendance, the movement represents a potent new force on the American political landscape. Its leaders and members are currently focused on changing the composition of Congress in November, but their real challenge will be finding ways after the election to pressure the political class — especially Republicans — to stick to the fiscal restraint promises made in the heat of the campaign.
… morePublished on April 20, 2010 – Michigan Capitol Confidential
In 1992, incumbent Republican Congressman
Bob Davis chose not to run for re-election in the Michigan 1st District because he was one of the top five politicians implicated in the House “
check kiting“ scandal. Davis had represented the district covering the northern Lower Peninsula and the entire Upper Peninsula since 1978. Poor decisions made then by a state Republican establishment alienated many grass roots “true believers” in the district, opening the door for a former one-term Democrat state Representative, who won and went on to an 18-year Congressional career.
Fast forward to 2010: The 1st District seat has once again become open due to a misstep by the incumbent, that once little-known Democrat who won the seat in 1992. His name, of course, is Bart Stupak, and the misstep was his vote in favor of President Barack Obama’s health care bill. And once again, members of the Republican establishment are making moves that could diminish grass roots support for the party’s eventual candidate in the November general election, potentially leading to the ascension of yet another Democrat “dynasty” in the 1st District.
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The Legislature returns today after a two-week break to take up perhaps the greatest challenge facing state government since 1983: an estimated $1.5 billion budget shortfall. Making this all the more difficult is the apparent inability of lawmakers to adopt what most struggling private-sector
workers and small-business
owners view as modest reductions in state employee pay and benefits. That failure was highlighted in three separate events just before the break.
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On Aug. 5, 2009, Sen. Jason Allen, R-Traverse City, introduced
Senate Bill 731, which would give statutory cover to a scheme transferring approximately $6.6 million in taxpayer money annually to the SEIU government employee union, one of the parents of ACORN. Wendy Day of
Common Sense in Government has reported on Facebook that Allen was the recipient of a
$2,000 campaign contribution from the SEIU on June 22, six weeks before SB 731 was introduced. In another post she hints that the bill was related to SEIU support of former state representative Mike Nofs in a November 2009 special election. The SEIU endorsed Nofs on August 22nd, two weeks after SB 731 was introduced, and sent four full-time workers to help on his campaign.
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A review and analysis of important state legislative policy issues that do not always receive attention from the general media. Michigan Capitol Confidential will make it easier to keep tabs on your elected representatives in Lansing.
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The root of Michigan's ongoing budget debacle is government employee unions.
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