[mike jones]

Bush has intentionally turned his back to Michigan because this state voted Democratic in the last presidential election.

It is punishment, like we were recalcitrant children.

[Cato the Elder]

Originally Posted by mike jones

Bush has intentionally turned his back to Michigan because this state voted Democratic in the last presidential election.

It is punishment, like we were recalcitrant children.

But you know that he, or most any other politician, would be schmoozing it up in MI if there was another term at stake. That's what politics has come to in the 21st century - getting re-elected and a legacy in the people's eyes is what drives people, which is often independent of doing the right thing.

[Cliffie]

Originally Posted by Miborn

Does anyone think that the Dem's that have been in office have hurt Mi. in the way that their solution is to cut things and to raise taxes more and more?

"Raise taxes"? This week is the first time since Granholm was elected that she's actually talked seriously about raising taxes, and it's not gonna be enough. She's JUST cutting services, which I would like to point out is more than Engler ever did.

[deslok]

I thought it was the toyota camry?

[jumpygh]

Originally Posted by MainStreet

You are not getting what I'm saying at all. The resources that states sent to the gulf area, that was not donated...the federal reimbursement to states who provided resources to the gulf region after Katrina....some states have not been able to cash in those IOUs, because there is no money to pay them...it's all going to the trillion dollar war....We taxpayers lost 26 million dollars just keeping ice frozen...ice that was never used and had to be melted. That is just Katrina ice...imagine was is being wasted in the war.

Wow, $26M in ice was lost. Newsflash: governments don't do anything very well. They can barely keep things running smoothly in good times, nevermind when a 100-year hurricane hits a vulnerable city.

The price to be paid for living along the beautiful Gulf coast is that you're liable to have everything trashed by a hurricane. That's the trade-off. Michigan isn't nearly as nice climate-wise, but I never have to worry about a hurricane. If folks want to take the chance of living in dangerous areas, then they have to accept the results when the inevitable storm comes. Every single person in hurricane land could sell their homes and move to safer areas. That they choose not to is their problem.

[M TYPE X]

Bush indeed has left Michigan to its own Democrat devices. He does not need to do special favors for those who do not support him.

The Democrats have a made a total mess, and I cannot name a single Michigan Republican that can clean it up.