A few more Comments...

I note that I received a response from Jen Baird about my post yesterday, if true its good to see that any monies given to a business has to be paid back. But it does appear that the State is guaranteeing these loans. The information that I received from our temporary County Commissioner appears to be untrue. I am grateful for that, but why the State has gotten in between a lender and a business, is beyond me.

I don't begrudge this specific business any success, I hope they are successful. I just wonder why the state doesn't eliminate the Business tax to get more businesses to flock here and prosper.

And the jobs that Ms. Baird specifically cites are specialty jobs, perfect for the Ann Arbor area. This is not what the average Joe in Michigan could do well at. Congratulations at any success you may achieve Ms. Baird, but the Life Science job mart that the Gov wants is not what the people of Michigan want or that the majority could do.

In Canada, there is a race for high paying jobs going on. Bet my readers didn't know that, did you? People from all over Canada are moving to Alberta. Receiving high paying jobs, and even sign up bonuses if they stay for two years. My sister in law's nephew is there, living the life of Riley, as she put it, making so much money he doesn't know what to do with himself.

Because Canada is doing the jobs that American politicians refuse to let us do. They are drilling for OIL! And paying the people willing to do them very well. As long as you are willing to work hard, and show up every day, at the end of the week you get rewarded with a big fat paycheck.

You don't need a 4 or 6 year education, to create jobs that would attract the masses, and not a small amount of workers either. Highly skilled workers are not necessary. These jobs help feed families of everyone willing to work. These are the kind of jobs and companies we need. Check out what is happening in Canada, because Canadians are talking non-stop about it. I should know, my husband is Canadian, and he's the one who told me about it. Here is the website, showing how successful it is and what we should be doing..
http://www.energy.gov.ab.ca/OurBusiness/oilsands.asp

So, thank you Ms. Baird for noticing this small blog and correcting the mistakes. Hand outs are not what Michigan residents ever want to see.

Cynical? You bet!

Updated above.
Tired of this crap? Damn straight!

I received a visit today from County Commissioner Ronaele Bowman, and had a nice chat with her. She's very little, seems as kind as could be, but she is a Democrat to the bone. With one exception, which I will get to.

The reason I mention this is because of her newsletter, I learned about the vote to increase our taxes for the Zoo. Ronaele Bowman supports this tax, my arguments were futile. I could maybe go as far as supporting this tax, if the citizens forced to pay, got a free trip to the Zoo. Oh no, cant do that! You get nothing for your money. Not even a special discount for the pleasure of having your money ripped off.

I would much rather give my daughters the tax money and have them take my grandsons to the Zoo..at least I would get something out of it! Ms. Bowman said that it wouldn't help "the poor children" who would not get to experience the Zoo..if people are that poor, unless its a field trip, they are not worried about going to the Zoo. Democrat catch phrase if there ever was one.."for the children" we will tax you for their health care, for their rent, for their food, for everything. Buck up Americans, it does feel good to have to pay twice for everything, doesn't it?

Cobo Hall expansion on taxpayer money? Yes, Ms. Bowman supports it. Yikes! I'm getting the feeling that anything Detroit owns, and runs, is okay for the rest of us to finance, no matter if it ever sees any money in the black. They run in the red precisely because of government, and they always will. There is no incentive to make it profitable.

Have you ever heard the stupid commercials that Jeff Daniels does? He talks about a business moving to Michigan and getting 2 MILLION Michigan tax dollars to start it up! Go to that link and see the happy face of Jennifer Baird, President & CEO, Accuri Cytometers, Inc. She's very happy, shes the one that got 2 Million bucks of YOUR money! Are they spending it on stem cell research? How nice is that? Well, my question to Ms. Bowman was, once the company is on its feet, does it have to pay it back? Oh No! That's their gift, from Michigan taxpayers and existing Michigan businesses struggling now to stay open, its a GIFT! A GIFT, folks! Lets all get in on this gravy train! Lets open up a business, compliments of your neighbors!

I was then informed that its for jobs. This is the way Democrats try to bring jobs to our state. Not low or NO Michigan Business Tax, like most of the rest of the states. Ask a few businesses, like Bronners in Frankenmuth, how the new business tax affected them. It multiplied their tax base by 6. BY 6! How sad would that be to see them close up and leave Michigan? They actually pay taxes and contribute to society in such a wonderful way, and we are worried about a Zoo. Priorities in Michigan are backwards!

And how pathetic that their taxation goes to give free money to another company? Does anyone see anything wrong here? And then I was told that they lost a VW plant to Tennessee! How sad is that!? VW should of jumped on those free millions, in this state that produces our very own AMERICAN car companies! GM, Ford, and Chrysler could of had the honor to pay their taxes to open up a competitor's plant in their own backyard! What a slap in the face! Support Germany, the Michigan way! Geez, my head is about to bust!

I then asked Ms. Bowman if she supported the re-writing of the Michigan Constitution, and to her credit, she said NO, it was all about redistricting and keeping Democrats in office for eternity, or until this state collapses, which might not be too far away. I was happily surprised at her answer here.

But as a conservative Republican, I don't want to pay for cheap tickets to get into the Zoo. I want to pay for a product or service that I use. Charge the price at the gate that insures you will stay open, or close the door, sell the animals and the land, or just sell the whole thing to a private business that would run it as such. Don't put it on our tax rolls.

You cant just take, and take, and take. What is next? What will we be forced to pay for next? Lets start selective voting, in full view with no secret ballots. If you vote to fund the Zoo, YOU fund it. If you vote to fund Cobo, YOU fund it. You write the check..

Maybe I need to do a post about how to write a check. Maybe then when you have a program that really appeals to you, having to take the money out of your own pocket would give you pause to think twice.

Tax and Spend. Then tax some more..then spend much more than you taxed, and then repeat. That's Michigan! The land of the hand is now the land of the hand out.

No to the Zoo Tax! Vote August 5 to stop the madness!

I spent some time today, researching what the average homeowner in the Wayne County area pays in property taxes. I used an average figure of $ 125k to 130k in several different cities. I tried to keep the price right around what an average buyer can afford, more or less. In every city, except Detroit, taxes on these homes were approximately $2,500 a year.

That alone is 200+ per month to live in their home, not including mortgage payment and insurance. Pretty taxing already on a young family starting out, and especially on senior citizens who are on a fixed small income as it is..

Here is my list, along with the addresses available for sale on MLS.
Garden City-121 Gilman $2,588 per year. (215 per month in tax!)
Dearborn-7747 Miller $2,571 per year. (215 per month in tax!)
Detroit-18434 Lauder $2,030 per year. (169 per month in tax!)
Canton-4249 Hunter Circle $2,828 per year, not including monthly condo fees.
Westland-400 Forrest $2,308 per year. (192 per month tax!)
Plymouth-11845 Sycamore Dr. $2,162 per year, not including monthly condo fees.
Harper Woods-21231 Kenmore $3,392 per year. (281 per month in tax!)

Now assuming that most people have a value of more than this (not that they paid this much, but lived there long enough for it to increase in value) its pretty safe to say that we already pay enough in property taxes. No matter what else comes along, property owners DO NOT want to pay anymore, we actually want them to go down.

I wont bother posting the taxation of real property on a 200,000 or 300,000 worth of homes, that might shock you to see what they pay for that. I know some would say they can afford more taxation anyway, but...oh what the heck! Lets post some 300k homes and what level of taxation they have to bear!

Canton-41791 Singh Dr $5,647 per year. (470 bucks a month in tax to live here!)
Grosse Pointe-17449 Maumee $5,484 per year. (457 bucks a month in tax to live here!)
Livonia-33885 Trillium Ct. $5,337 per year. (444 bucks a month in tax to live here!)
Flat Rock-28050 Regency Dr. $7,387 per year. (615 bucks a month in tax to live here!)

Many more properties could be looked up at http://www.previewpropeties.com/
so all you pro taxation for the Zoo people can see that we are hardly undertaxed and very much overtaxed and its time to start saying NO. No to you Zoo people, No to the Governor, No to the Cities and Counties, and No to the State!

Dont make people have to lose their homes anymore than they are already! The "Say Yes to the Zoo" people claim that millions tour the Zoo every year! Raise the rate at the gate! Raise the parking fee a buck! Leave homeowners alone. I pray that residents VOTE on August 5, 2008 and say NO. Say it loud and clear, because they plan to put it back on the ballot in November if it fails! Pesky little tax and spend people that they are!

Its no wonder that the moving vans are heading out, and so many empty foreclosed homes here. THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT! No jobs, hard times, too many gosh damn taxes!

Kwame, Kwame, Kwame...

Its best not to act like a racist and bad ass when your fate is in other people's hands. I know it must be hard trying to live a normal life, and live a life like how you treated others, but your normal life is over. And its not going to get any better, not for a long while now. Living the thug life under the careful watch of a judge is stupid.

That mansion and the power you used to have, are hard to give up, aren't they? If you step down there goes the funding of at least some city money for your team of thug lawyers. Its interesting to see your sister's home, and know that your whole family made it by moving on up to the big houses on taxpayer money. You couldn't make it as a lawyer, you had to screw over a city, a city that already has been screwed over more than it even knows.

So, now you get to do some of the things normal people have to do. Like pee in front of a person that is going to check what you have done in your private life. Just think, people receiving a free check/ride on taxpayer money via welfare don't even have to do that! How the mighty fall flat. Also, please remember that poor idiots that want to work for a living have to pee in a cup too. Its comforting to recognize that. Make sure you put the cap on tight..

And your comment about the black officer working with a white officer...that was classic! Use the race card, shove people around, pee in a cup! Your future looks kind of bleak, with a yellow streak running through it. Sadly you have no one to blame but yourself, I guess I wont make any yellow snow jokes... but you do fit in with the Democratic Party going to Denver! I see the judge allowed that! They did find a house full of Urine bombs, saved just to throw at all of you Democrat lowlifes...Make sure you wear a raincoat! I guess the Democrat Nutbags want to baptize people.

Is that mansion worth all of this? The blogs on the Detroit News Stations online are all negative for you. Some are downright nasty. You really must of really pee'd in some one's Wheaties, because they are not going to stop until you are in federal prison. Might of been the arrogance you project onto others, like they just aren't good enough to interview Hizzoner. Treat people like poo, end up in the outhouse.

Who is Carmen Slowski, by the way? I guess your massage parlor days are over too..

Vote NO to the Zoo on August 5...

Why Would Jimmy Hoffa change his mind on drilling in ANWAR?

This information comes to me from The Warroom, or better known as Quinn and Rose in the morning. If you have never heard of, or listened to Quinn and Rose, you need to. They have a sample of their show on their web page.

Why would Hoffa change his mind about drilling in ANWAR? Yes, the Union head, actually was contacted by Democrats to change his mind on drilling..he said he will look into the matter and give his opinion on drilling in 4 months, which by the way, puts the election behind us.

At which time he can change his mind again.

Now why would he do that? Because the Democrats are under pressure to drill, and they actually want to drill. YES! They do!

Democrats would be the hero's to the American people backed up by a Democratic President. They would get all the credit for easing Americans pain at the pump. That could lead to winning elections for a long time.

But what they promised ol' Jimmy Hoffa to back off for 4 months is...union and government jobs, as they nationalize oil production. They will not allow oil companies to drill, they will do it themselves and control it completely. They will open up ANWAR and create a government company to do it. They will just take it over, like Hugo Chavez did.

Good job Jimmy Hoffa..sell your soul for the government . Chump!

Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters endorse Barack Hussein Obama...Of course they do.

From the Village Voice:

Hoffa gave a late and half-hearted endorsement to Al Gore in 2000. But by Labor Day 2001, Bush and Hoffa were chummy enough for the president to chow down some ribs at a big Teamsters Labor Day barbecue in Michigan. There, Bush praised the union leader, who was helping lobby Congress for a pet GOP project to allow oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-02-26/news/the-labor-latte-alliancetom-robbins/

From RightWingNews:

But then, Hannity is repeatedly at odds with reality in this chapter, stating that ANWR oil would make the United States "far less dependent on foreign oil" and noting Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa Jr.'s assertion that drilling would create 735,000 jobs. A Miami Herald article citing data from the USGS, the Department of Energy and the Congressional Research Service, however, stated that, at its peak, ANWR would produce less than 5 percent of daily U.S. oil consumption and create between 60,000 and 130,000 new jobs. Yet Hannity, in typical style, uses these falsehoods to make the broad claim that "it is difficult to point to another issue in modern American history where a major political party's rhetoric is so divorced from reality."
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Considering that we only get 10.1% of our oil from Saudi Arabia and Iraq which are our two most unstable suppliers, being able to produce 5% more of our oil domestically would make us "far less dependent of foreign oil." Furthermore, if Jimmy Hoffa's claims conflict with the claims of the Miami Herald, why does that make the claim Hannity cites, "a falsehood" and the claim Spinsanity cites correct?

http://rightwingnews.com/special/spinsanity.php

That's a whole lot of Teamster jobs, isn't it? Run by and paid by the government, with all the benefits that come with it, and all the control over the oil pumped. Oil companies would be eventually put out of business, like in Venezuela, because the liberals and government would own it. This is some scary stuff!

Now I know that the Teamsters and unions in general are losing members left and right, and Hoffa knows that more than anyone. But those union member dues are dying out, and what better way to recapture them, then by teaming up with Liberals in government to screw the nation?

I Was Just Kidding! Say It Isnt So!

Updated by Anonymous: Steve Beren Responds to McDermott's "Gas Stamps" Bill


I was just joking around when I said that the next welfare program coming down the pike will soon have the government passing out Gas Stamps, similar to food stamps, and that soon the working American public would get to pay for this! I was really just kidding, and I never thought that the chumps in Washington that are responsible for these gas prices would actually do something so stupid!

Read the whole thing here..

“Rep. Jim McDermott
(D-WA), chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and
Family Support, introduced legislation today to provide financial assistance to
vulnerable Americans struggling to survive under crushing gasoline prices.”

“The Emergency Gasoline Assistance Act (H.R. 6561) would create a
program to provide $5 billion to states as a one-time grant with the money
designated to provide assistance to families of modest means to purchase
gasoline. This program could provide every family that is currently living below
the federal poverty threshold with $500 in assistance. State governors would
have the flexibility to use the money to create programs that target the
specific needs of their communities.”

Oh. My. God.
Taxpayers that actually work will now get the honor of paying for your neighbor's gas too! Great! We can give free gas to the little people to get them to the Zoo that they want to fund also!

I guess this little "redistribution of wealth" is easier than making us show our income tax forms and bank statements at the gas pump to decide which Americans get to pay more. I guess that would prevent a lot of fights at the pump when one American gets to pay 5 bucks a gallon, and your neighbor gets it free.

Pretty soon, no one will work for a living, since its getting very profitable to live off the government, and more and more every day! These freebies are looking mighty tempting to people working their rear ends off to thoroughly support others. We already supply free food, mortgage and rent payments, cars, (yes, cars! look it up!)child care, schooling, baby formula and everything else, how nice it would be to get some of those freebies ourselves! Our paychecks are getting smaller and smaller because were forced to pay high taxes to support others. That's getting pretty old. Its time to get on the dole. Its easier, and the benefits are great! SocialismRus!

Lets all jump on the bandwagon..the ride is worth it!