Michigan and It's Budget

Well, only a few months after the budget was supposed to be decided here in Michigan. Our Governor and our Legislature, finally got around to passing this fiscal year's budget! Hurray! For some reason here in Good Ol' Michigan, our legislature cannot ever even begin work on the budget unless it is passed the time it should be in place. I guess that is a tradition here! It is a tradition that should be abandoned! It should be replaced with a new tradition of getting the budget work done on time! My feelings at this time are that we should vote out the whole legislature and the Governor and replace them. If That legislature is still not doing the job they were elected to do, start over again. If I had performed as poorly at a job, I would most likely have been fired! Deservedly! I believe that our legislature should also be held accountable. They should get the job done or get out!

Somehow, whenever it comes time to balance the budget, naturally, cuts in programs must be made. Always the cuts seem to come in our K-12 education...in our schools. Here in MI there are programs that are 'earmarked', that cannot be cut for any reason. Are we surprised that one of those programs is the wages of the legislature and the Governor, along with all the trappings that come with those offices? For example, the monies needed to run their offices, and so on. In fact, if the legislature here in Mi does not vote to Not accept the raises, it happens automatically. Never has there been such a vote that passed both houses! They are riding the gravy train, while hamstringing our education system! Not a good job performance at all, instead it is a criminal job performance!

We in MI have term limits. That was supposed to make the legislature more respondent to the people. The idea was to destroy the 'Ol' Boy' network and get some fresh thinking in our government. It has not worked. So maybe our term limits are too long. Let's vote them All out, Democrats and Republicans alike, and begin again! It is time![[