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Dem guv of Michigan: “YOUR money? NOT!”

This is just jaw-droppingly appalling. From New Fallujah (AKA Detroit):

The guv’s spin machine hit overdrive this past weekend with an over-the-top interview that strained credulity and probably pushed more than a few aortas toward the breaking point. Michigan’s budget woes, it turns out, are the fault of its greedy citizens.

“It’s not just about me, me, me. It’s about investing in Michigan,” Gov. Jennifer Granholm told the Free Press in a piece Sunday. “Where’s the notion of the common good? It’s been lost over decades because there’s been … this idea that it’s your money, it’s your money. (Yeah, what kind of crazy talk is THAT? – Ed.) What happened to, ‘It’s your schools, and it’s your roads and it’s your parks, your libraries?’”

There you have it folks: It’s not your money. It’s hers. Or the Legislature’s. Or the state bureacracy’s — anybody’s but yours. Don’t ask questions about how it is spent, or on what. Don’t demand better results from your schools or your local governments. Don’t ask how Michigan stacks up to other Great Lakes states or anywhere else. Just pay up, shut up and sit down.

Otherwise, you don’t want good schools, good roads, good parks and good libraries, just squalor for as far as the eye can see. The accusation is as absurd as the fact that it was aired unchallenged.

Yes, Michigan: You’re the problem. And if you weren’t gobsmacked by the guv’s high-handedness on public revenue, there was her claim that Michigan could position itself as the nation’s alternative-energy manufacturing hub. Really? How?

“Those alternative energy companies are going to come where it makes business sense for them, from the standpoint of geography, workforce, where there is the talent for development and research,” Granholm said. “Nobody has what Michigan has in terms of water, wind, wood, the workforce, the history of the automobile, the technology and research. We have this place that is second to none.”

And the evidence that this is so? Anyone? In the waves of new investment? How could it be so with the nation’s highest unemployment rate, lowest job creation rate, high cost of doing business, increasing tax burden and deserved reputation as one of the nation’s labor strongholds?

From the jackass’ mouth. Of course, the guv is just saying what every other liberal thinks but doesn’t usually have the stones to be so public about it.

October 17, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | economic ignorance, socialism, taxes