If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.
Posted on 02/27/2008 5:52:26 AM PST by absolootezer0
The “preference to in-state” will award jobs to expensive companies that don’t have the ability to do the job.
It will add billions to the cost and taxpayers will pick up the tab!
What are 100% Michigan workers? I don’t see how it would be legal to discriminate against Americans from other States or legal resident aliens. Can’t happen. Michigan needs to cut taxes, cut government spending, do away with insane regulations and basically get out of the way of the people, who actually grow the economy. The way to help the State is to make Michigan the best place to invest money, no amount of additional State regulation is going to do that.
Ah I see you looked me up to try the old 'member since blah blah blah ploy', thats an old one, lol. I used to be a far right neo just like yourself, I know exactly how you think, have fun with it, see you in November. I suspect alot will need to be put on suicide watch, gonna be fun watching the conniptions.
Nobody ever thought Michigan Democrats (either the Pols or their supporters) were very bright anyway.
Here’s a potential problem that might result in the opposite of what the policy is seeking to get to. This policy provides Michigan businesses a disinsentive to expand its business to other states. If it is a Michigan based business, expansion within the United States, and even internationally would provide more Michigan people with job opportunities. It probably provides more tax revenue to Michigan (even though there may be limits to double taxation).
Instead of government creating a bad business environment in Michigan, and then using government to provide incentives for businesses to disregard the bad business environment, I wish the Michigan government concentrated instead on reducing the tax and regulatory burden on Michigan businesses.
If I'm sick in another state I can go to any PPO doctor I want and guess what it gets paid for. How do I know this? I work for Blue Cross Blue Shield you nimrod, those claims are processed thru IPP(Inter Plan Processing). Yep 50,000 of those claims go thru me everyday. Try again.
If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.
How ‘bout just solving the problem all the way around and making Michigan a “right to work” state? The Unions,like the mainstream media, are dinosaurs.
But if you get your chits and giggles from trolling have at it!
I'm pretty sure the Council didn't go along with it, but I don't think a final decision has been made. A similar situation involving a Detroit development plan has already entered lawsuit territory, and the Lansing City Counil had been waiting to see how that turned out before making their final decision.
The ultimate authority of intellectuals!
Zeppo, you never stood a chance. LOL!!!!
You over here still rambling? I see you didn’t respond after I owned you about the Dr thing.
Do I really need to give you a tutorial about Wikipedia? Do I really need to give you instruction on the meaning and usage of footnotes? You posted the following (in part):
Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of social liberalism, being the idea that society must protect liberty and opportunity for all citizens, and the New Left counterculture of the 1960s. It influenced the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and the George W. Bush presidential administrations, representing a re-alignment in American politics, and the defection of liberals to the right-hand side of the political spectrum.[1]
Did you notice that little "[1]" at the end of that snippet? That is a footnote that references the source for that quote as "E.J. Dionne, (1991) Why Americans Hate Politics, New York, New York: Simon & Schuster Inc. p. 56. ISBN 0-671-68255-5".
So, you did indeed quote far leftist E. J. Dionne when you provided your "definition" of neoconservatism. The fact that you claim that you didn't even know that the actual source of what you posted about neoconservatism was a far left commentator should lead any rational observer to question the origin and truthfulness of any other thing that you profess to believe about neoconservatism or "neocons". In fact, it should prompt you to question and reexamine your own beliefs about what neoconservatism is all about...
So Mr Zeppo, how about defining it for me then, hmmm, enlighten me.
well, what the whole thing makes me think about is the document destruction. all “sensitive” state documents have to be destroyed, then they legislated *how* it had to be destroyed to give the contract to a company in OH.
so we ship all state “sensitive” documents out of state at a much higher cost than it could be.
I should have said can’t define it in a way that makes sense. What does the “Neo” mean, and if “Neo conservatism” is different from traditional conservatism how does it contrast with traditional conservativisim.
The truth of the matter, is that “Neo Con” is a pejorative term used to refer to those former liberals who “newly” joind the ranks of conservatisim. It is not a separate movement that somehow breaks ranks with traditional conservatism. However, Liberals have taken to using the term, to as a pejorative that they bash all conservatives with, even those that were born conservative such as Dick Cheeny. I think the “google” or “Wikipedia” definition you provided is absurd. But thanks for playing.
It effectively bans any resident of any state from crossing the state line to go to work.
It might pass muster, but I think this is one that will spend a lot of time in the courts if they do pass it.
an aggressive job-creation plan"first, the governor will announce a new cool cities program; then, she'll reassure everyone that 'our plan is working'; and finally, we're going to raise taxes instead of cutting the state budget, because we know what kind of harm is done by deficit spending."
i always thought a neo-con was either a liberal that had been mugged, or used as a synonym for the south park republicans.
Here I am! The plan appears to do nothing new except award government contracts to companies with all Michigan workers and funnel corporate welfare to companies with all Michigan workers.
Government money is taken from taxpayers. No matter how much of it is put back into the economy, the sum is still zero. Economic growth occurs when private business creates new wealth.
Taking water out of the deep end of the pool and dumping it into the shallow end (even if the pool is entirely located in Michigan) will not raise the water level.
There. That's what's wrong with it.
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