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Name: Rick Snyder
Age: 53
Occupation: former chairman, Gateway Computers
Last Seen: Lansing, MI
Bee-otched For: screwing over unions
Age: 53
Occupation: former chairman, Gateway Computers
Last Seen: Lansing, MI
Bee-otched For: screwing over unions
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Don't blame me, I never voted Republican in my life, and I may never will.
Right now in Michigan's capitol in Lansing, hundreds of protesters are angry over a bill that would limit the power of unions. This time, a bill is steadfastly moving through the state senate that would give the power to emergency financial managers to throw out union contracts. So in other words, if a city or business is failing and their workers are unionized, their pay will go down from $30 per hour to $8. AFL-CIO president Mark Gaffney told The Detroit Free Press that Snyder's proposed cuts would hurt schools and cities, and that it would reduce state aid.
State treasurer Andy Dillon (D) claims that state aid to districts and cities could get lower due to shrinking property values linked to jobs disappearing and people moving elsewhere.
People, don't you know? UNIONS=JOBS. The reason why jobs are leaving this state are due to multiple factors, such as free trade in countries where workers get paid a few bucks per day and jobs moving to right to work states where people are expected to make a living on $8 per hour. Sadly, this is what we get when we elect another asshole Republican in office. Instead of taxing the evil rich jerks who hoard all the money in the world, we go after what little money the middle class has.
Ya see, folks? That's what happens when we elect a rich white CEO instead of a "career politician" like Virg Bernero. If Virg were governor, he could work with Obama to return Michigan to being a state where people have money and jobs. Instead, we end up with empty storefronts, no jobs and depression. Last weekend, I was talking with my uncle in Grand Blanc who recently worked in Seattle and South Carolina. The people there were happy and the chicks were happy. Here in Michigan, the claws come out.
Sadly, the only people smiling are those with money who don't believe in raises. And as long as Snyder's our governor, that's what's happening.
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