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Michigan slides toward partial government shutdown (Aren't RATS in charge of this place?)
Yahoo ^ | 10/01/09 | Kathy Barks Hoffman

Posted on 09/30/2009 9:57:24 PM PDT by Libloather

Michigan slides toward partial government shutdown
By Kathy Barks Hoffman, Associated Press Writer –
12 mins ago

LANSING, Mich. – One of the nation's most economically battered states stumbled toward a partial government shutdown Thursday as Michigan lawmakers failed to agree on a spending plan in one of the only states without a budget in place.

A deal to fill a nearly $3 billion shortfall with federal recovery dollars and more than $1 billion in cuts fell through, as many lawmakers discovered they couldn't stomach deep cuts to schools and local services such as police and fire protection in the stricken state.

They also failed to finalize a temporary budget and avert Michigan's second shutdown since 2007.

Secretary of State offices were set to close Thursday and state parks prepared to ask visitors to leave if the impasse remained when state workers were supposed to report for work. Essential services such as state police and prisons would continue running.

"We have taken steps to put a shutdown in place," Granholm spokeswoman Liz Boyd said shortly after midnight. But Boyd said the governor's office was waiting on a possible resolution from the Legislature to keep government running before state offices were scheduled to open Thursday.

Michigan already is struggling with the nation's highest unemployment rate, a shrinking auto industry, a high rate of home foreclosures and an economy that soured long before the national recession hit. The number of people receiving food stamps and unemployment checks keeps going up, and it's the only state where the Census Bureau found poverty rates rose two years in a row.

Pennsylvania is the only other state without a budget deal enacted.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; elections; government; michigan; shutdown; unions
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Ewwww - I've got a solution - raise taxes!
1 posted on 09/30/2009 9:57:24 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
I've got a solution - raise taxes

It's worked well here in California...oh wait, that's right...it hasn't.

2 posted on 09/30/2009 9:59:21 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Libloather
Michigan slides toward partial government shutdown (Aren't RATS in charge of this place?)

So, of course, it's the Republicans' fault.

3 posted on 09/30/2009 10:02:02 PM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: Libloather

Have to tax unemployment benefits.


4 posted on 09/30/2009 10:04:56 PM PDT by jazzo (Resistance is Futile)
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To: Libloather

Michigan can only implode now.


5 posted on 09/30/2009 10:06:39 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.)
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To: Libloather
Ewwww - I've got a solution - raise taxes!

They did that when the government shut down two years ago. There are conservatives who remembered the black eye they took and they haven't caved...yet.

6 posted on 09/30/2009 10:06:52 PM PDT by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: Libloather

Could they sell Detroit to Canada?


7 posted on 09/30/2009 10:15:43 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Texas Fossil
Michigan is imploding.
8 posted on 09/30/2009 10:22:16 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Vince Ferrer
Could they sell Detroit to Canada?

Don't you mean 'pay Canada to take Detroit?' No, wait! They don't have any money to pay anyone to take anything.

9 posted on 09/30/2009 10:22:49 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Libloather

I just got a newswire flash that GM is announcing that a deal to have a joint venture of Penske/Fiat to takeover Saturn has not worked out and Saturn, which has never been profitable, is finally dead. All dealerships closed within 12 months and brand killed like Pontiac.


10 posted on 09/30/2009 10:25:07 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Libloather

The biggest obstacle to prosperity is big government. To put it another way, the financial growth of any society is inversely proportional to the growth of government. If Michigan reduced the size of government, including government programs and personnel, and reduced taxes, economic growth would explode.


11 posted on 09/30/2009 10:29:25 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: Texas Fossil

They can thank the blood suckers at the UAW.

The UAW and liberalism (high taxes, regulation, corruption, unions and on and on) killed the state.


12 posted on 09/30/2009 10:32:15 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Nosterrex
But wait,

It's a bird,

It's a plane,

It's an Obama bailout for Michigan.

Faster than a speeding bullet

Obama will throw bailout money around Michigan like fertilizer.

13 posted on 09/30/2009 10:35:12 PM PDT by x_plus_one (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

That will kill another 5000 jobs in Michigan. Sad.


14 posted on 09/30/2009 10:39:28 PM PDT by proudpapa (Obama - Worst One Ever!)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

Yup. Killed by the UAW.


15 posted on 09/30/2009 10:53:24 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: Nosterrex
the financial growth of any society is inversely proportional to the growth of government.

That is a True Statement, but even if everyone agreed on the solution, there is point of no return from which nothing will fix it.

There is also the cultural element when the street rabble (as in France at the time of the Revolution) make it impossible to fix the problem.

Self government only works with a people who are informed, moral and responsible.

16 posted on 10/01/2009 3:13:23 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.)
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To: Libloather

Ever notice one particular political machine nearly always rules the management of the most violent cities in the U.S.?

1. St. Louis, MO: Francis G. Slay (D)

2. Detroit, MI: Kwame Kilpatrick (D)

3. Flint, MI: Don Williamson (D)

4. Compton, CA: Eric Perrodin (D)

5. Camden, NJ: Gwendolyn Faison (D)

6. Birmingham, AL: Larry Langford (D)

7. Cleveland, OH: Frank G. Jackson (D)

8. Oakland, CA: Ron Dellums (D)

9. Youngstown, OH: Jay Williams (D)

10. Gary, IN: Rudolph Clay (D)

11. Richmond, CA: Gayle McLaughlin (Green) <-— close enough

12. Baltimore, MD: Sheila Dixon (D)

13. Memphis, TN: W. W. Herenton (D)

14. Trenton, NJ: Douglas H. Palmer (D)

15. Richmond, VA: L. Douglas Wilder (D)

16. Kansas City, MO: Mark Funkhouser (D)

17. Atlanta, GA: Shirley Franklin (D)

18. Cincinnati, OH: Mark L. Mallory (D)

19. Washington, DC: Adrian Fenty (D)

20. North Charleston, SC: R. Keith Summey (R) (yes. pretty lonely on this list)


17 posted on 10/01/2009 4:47:04 AM PDT by 0scill8r
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To: 0scill8r

Doug Palmer, the Mayor of Trenton, actually lives about 20 miles north in Hunterdon County. When your own Mayor refuses to live in town, you know you have problems.


18 posted on 10/01/2009 4:53:34 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: proudpapa

Soon we will all be on the dole here in MI :(


19 posted on 10/01/2009 4:54:53 AM PDT by Cheryllynn
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

the partial shut down is in the Senate and the House. What a bunch of loosers


20 posted on 10/01/2009 5:41:03 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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