Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is pushing ahead on his path to fascism (the good kind! the American kind!), making good on his plans to fire locally elected officials and install his own people to rule over municipalities across the state by setting up a “crash course” program that will instruct an army of 400 henchmen who could quickly be installed as lords over local governments. Like Snyder, these people “have experience in the private sector,” so they’re the best kind of people to run struggling governments: people who have no experience running governments. It’s probably about time we put walls around Michigan and Wisconsin, for our own safety.
Let Canada fight off and liberate people from fascism. We don’t do that anymore. Michigan isn’t quite Muslim enough for the U.S. to invade.
Michigan’s new approach is among state experiments attracting the attention of restructuring executives as corporate work dissipates in the improving economy, said Scott Eisenberg, a managing partner at Amherst Partners LLC, an investment bank in Birmingham, Michigan. He helped develop some of the turnaround association’s initiatives in Lansing.
Oh thank God the state government is watching out for investment banks. Those poor citizens need any kind of work they can get, even if you have to fire elected officials and give them their jobs.
If you get elected to serve in a local government in Michigan, make sure the state police don’t catch you. Go underground and think up a good password for getting access into your secret chambers. DON’T make the password “Red Wings.” [Bloomberg]
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How is this even remotely legal? Sorry about no joke, but this amazes me.
the neat thing about fascism is that it does not have to be!
The really neat thing about fascism is it becomes legal as soon as it's implemented!
I'm suprised it hasn't gone to court yet. Has it?
I'm guessing it will as soon as he sends one of his Dukes out to replace a duly elected local government.
Already happening. Maddow had a story about a poor, black city on Lake Michigan which just had its local government disbanded. Apparently one of the main reasons is developers want to seize their local park on the lake and turn it into a golf development.
Well certainly seems in the spirit of creating efficient government and not at all a blatant corporate theft and complete pure evil.
To be fair, the starter shack on the golf course will probably be run very efficiently.
Hayzoos kreesto, we're turning into fucking Nigeria…
That's a done deal. The old beach park was a hellhole. The new one is awesome, now it's one of the nicest beaches on the Great Lakes. The golf course uses a section of the park that was wild swamps. Nobody lost anything, the city got a good deal, a new beach, plus a major new tax base.
Well if they kick out all the blackz, who's going to caddy?!
Benton Harbor: my home town, as it happens. The golf course is being built over a public beach that was supposed to be saved in perpetuity as a memorial to a girl who drowned there.
That poor black town, Benton Harbor, used to be the world headquarters of Whirlpool Corporation I shit ye not. Then they moved all the washing machine-making jobs to Mexico or some damn place and, well, there went the neighborhood.
This is funny! There are no courts in medieval times! Just bad food and Popery.
Sans snark, I can tell you that most municipalities in most states are creatures of state governments. There's no "states' rights" equivalent for locals. And so in an extreme case, the legislature could in theory abolish municipal governments and run things from the state capital. I'm not a lawyer, but I imagine what's been done in Michigan, while abhorrent and ultimately self-destructive, would probably stand legal and constitutional tests.
I live adjacent to one of the cities being taken over by an emergency financial manager. This city, highlighted by Rachel Maddow last night, desperately needed the EFM. He's been here for over a year, and it's working. In this one case, at least, the EFM was necessary. He's unwinding a couple decades of mismanagement and sheer incompetence. And, revamping the structure of the city government into something that both works and represents citizens.
I hope you're not one of those assholes from St. Joe. Or is it Flushing or Grosse Pointe?
I can deliver on your hope.
In Colorado we have home rule that allows towns cities to exist as an entity that have powers separate and apart from the state government. But whenever a Republican is elected to statewide office, like the teabagger secretary of state that snuck in under the radar in the last election, they try to consolidate their power at the state level and dictate their policies to local governments.
I call bullshit on account of the "all politics is local" provision of the US Constitution.
It isn't legal, but the Red Wings won last night so it's kinda hard to give much of a fuck around here. Priorities, people. Priorities.
It's called Michigan. Every person who voted for this jerk should get kicked in the crotch.
As can be seen upthread, there are some fools (Dems included) in this state that don't mind this…so long as it doesn't happen to their lilly white communities.
At it's very heart, this is about the takeover of largely black cities in the state. All of the cities and school districts currently under an EMF are majority black. Watch the shit hit the fan the first time a large, whitish suburb is threatened with this. Then, these folks will be going batshit crazy about "local control."
I'm so fucking sick of this shit. We already had an EFM law in place that was working; to increase the powers of the EFM is a blatant power trip by this tea-party legislature with all kinds of racial and social implications.
Benton Harbor is not a nice town, but if that's a legal reason to dissolve local government, now, than we've truly lost our way. If these towns have to go bankrupt, that may just need to happen. Snatching their government away is some straight-up Hitler shit, and I'm not even going to pretend that this is a good idea in any way.
Gosh, how many Governor cum-catchers do the Koch brothers need?
As many as are for sale.
All of them, Katie.
I dunno. How many ya got?
"400 henchmen" = 400 line-dancing Kochettes.
They'll be dressed like the thugs in that plague of a movie The Postman.
I've said this before. When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a Conservative and carrying a Republican.
Screaming about the sanctity of the Constitution
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in Quilted Northern toilet paper.
Birmingham, Michigan: Investment Banking Capital of the World
I always sort of thought Birmingham was the preppy-douche-popped-collar-polo-shirt-BMW capital of the world. Until I left Michigan.
Don't go to Georgetown. Your head might explode, unless you're into the preppy douche motif…, which is cool…
Didn't god murder Gtown with a flood, or plague of locusts or something recently?
Birmingham, MI is located in Oakland County, one of the three richest counties in the United States. Oakland County abuts Wayne County which is primarily Detroit, which is not nearly as nice as it is depicted as being in that Chrysler ad. The term used by professional demographers to describe it is, "shit hole." It is my home town.
Actually, the Chrysler add does a very good and accurate job of depicting the good and the bad of the city. I really don't know what you're talking about. It's a shit hole on net, but it is more interesting than Oakland County will ever be and it is my hometown, too.
BTW, Oakland County isn't anywhere near being one of the three richest counties in the country, anymore. They are living in the past. They compare themselves to Detroit which makes them think they are hot shit. When you look out how much the place stagnated over the last decade compared to the rest of the country, it's not even funny.
Actually, it doesn't. Drive downtown some time using Grand River instead of the Lodge. It looks like fucking Dresden after the war. I take no pleasure in any of this. It shames me to live in a country which would permit its citizens to live like we let some (many) of the people in Detroit live. I got Detroit bona fides. I was at Tiger Stadium–got stuck there, actually–the day the riot started in '67. I remember downtown Hudson's, Vernors, Stroh's, Bob-Lo, etc. I remember the way things used to be when actual cars were actually built in the Motor City. It breaks my heart to see what we have become here, it really does.
Michigan isn’t quite Muslim enough for the U.S. to invade.
Well, there is Dearborn.
Damn, I was going to say that.
If we're not Muslim enough to invade, what does the percentage have to be? Cuz I'd be willing to convert.
Exactly! That Koran burning guy is going there to…I dunno…attempt an exorcism? Logic doesn't live in his head, so why try to apply any.
Besides, it's too cold in the winter, and there's lots of mosquitoes in the summer.
Dearborn has the second largest Arab population outside the Mideast.
Yeah, that corporate model really worked well in education with Cathie Black, why not apply it to all aspects of life?
Dibs on Viceroy of Kalamazoo!
King of Climax and Hierophant of Hell.
That's a sweet gig, dude.
I call dibs on Fearless Leader of the People's Republic of Ann Arbor.
The man's a multimillionaire, but the best he can do is a SuperCuts haircut. & don't try telling me his thriftiness in coiffure in what keeps him rich — it's not.
Maybe he hooks a Flowbee up to a really pricey Dyson?
Not only that, but it appears he makes his own jacket cloth from the hair clippings. The man is thrifty and crafty!
Now, it's unfair to call Snyder's actions fascist; by sending his vassals out to rule over the serfs, he's going a step further into good old fashioned feudalism.
That's so weird, because I read somewhere that the "road to serfdom" was universal health care, not dissolving the democtratic process and appointing vassals to rule over feifdoms.
Well that argument makes sense as long as you ignore the actual meanings of words.
Michigan isn’t quite Muslim enough for the U.S. to invade.
That's not what I've heard.
Rachel did a great piece on this last night, they've already started. Appears there was a golf course that needed lake front property and a disadvantaged little town that happened to have some. Guess they can all have jawbs at the massa's country club now!
Linky: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/42654363#...
Our lovely Supremes already ok'd taking property and giving it to a private company, "to improve the economy", so to speak.
It's only a matter of time before they stamp out the rampant socialism in Ann Arbor.
I live there. While her facts are straight, that city-run beach park was a hellhole. It's awesome now. And Whirlpool is a benevolent overlord.
Is it still freely accessible? Honest question. And I'm not counting the golf course–basically, can you get to the beach without paying the $5K annual fee?
Why aren't all the people who were up in arms about the Kelo decision in CT. pissed about this?
Also, in the ad shown there was one detail that probably escaped most people's notice, but didn't escape mine (and probably won't escape the notice of other Michiganders). The convertible is a freaking Volkswagen.
God, I'm listen to Rachel's show now and, speaking of fascism, she's also talking about a proposed Kansas law that would put an end to voter registration drives, unless people take to carrying around their birth certificates or passports with them. The GOP is not even pretending not to be evil now.
And Snyder's particular class of white corporate henchman believes that the highest and best use of any plot of land is a golf course. Private, whenever possible.
Rick Snyder: did Chris Christie belch him up after lunch?
Oddly, Christie's belches smell of Koch.
people who have no experience running governments.
If you’re a conservative blowhard you’re not expected to be experienced at your government job, so long as you’re blowing hard.
Would that be blowing Rick Snyder hard?
If your main belief is that government can't do anything right, why would you appoint competent people to govern? If you keep appointing fools and hacks, you keep proving your point. It's almost funny!
In Rick Snyder's defense he isn't a black socialist Kenyan Muslin.
No, merely a white fascist.
You know who else was democratically elected then installed his own people?
Fidel Castro?
George W. Bush? Shoot, at least he installed his own people.
It said democratically-elected, not jurispredentially-installed.
Caesar?
Mao?
Jeff Daniels has just been replaced by Herman Myerowitz, CPA, in the My Michigan campaign.
"Red Wings" is probably a horrible password. "Jack Boots" should work swell, though.
"attracting the attention of restructuring executives as corporate work dissipates"
I thought all the displaced executive workers were busy opening mega-churches (that is one sweet scam), but now they're moving into government too?
That "Im A Dick" look by these Repulican Governors always pisses me off.
That and those beady ass awful rodent eyes they all have.
Heeeeey!
We can't all be flying squirrels.
who could quickly be installed as lords over local governments
I think they prefer the term "Gauleiter," Jack.
That makes Rick Snyder the oberstrumfenfuhrer or something, right?
The four Emergency Financial Managers (EMFs = Enormous Mother Fuckers) currently operating are: Detroit Public Schools and the cities of Pontiac, Benton Harbor and Ecorse.
In each case so far the EMFs have managed to lay-off public workers, including cops and firefighters, hire poorly run contractors to take over city services like trash collection and make much worse the budget deficits that they were installed to fix.
Looks like everything is going to plan
In Benton Harbor the EFM fired a corrupt trash hauler and went to bid for a new one. The original one was part of the trouble…family ties to the city council, and three city managers couldn't fix the problem…each one fired by city council…each one sued for breach and each one won $1M. Enter EFM…
I thought EMF meant elecromagneticfuckjob and happened when you exploded the deficit into the stratosphere by cutting taxes on the riches.
Looks like it's time to give the EFM's a raise. And we might wanna look at their tax bracket…. and tweak it downward a little. Gotta get the trickle down a tricklin'!!!
"It’s probably about time we put walls around Michigan and Wisconsin, for our own safety."
Illinois is the only bulwark against fascism in the NFC North. You're welcome.
So, you got inside information on the Vikings's move to Los Angeles, becoming the Conquistadores?
Jay Cutler? We're so fucked.
But on the other hand , soon, it appears, I will be parachuted into Michgan with a cache of arms for the Partisans . Dreamy.
Looking forward to meeting you!
I will set up a resistance network and get your messages out , eventually help will arrive but not before, if it goes as in WW2, I have to fuck a Teabagger or two….
Oh dear. Well, my prayers are with you.
Good luck, and may the force be with you.
By the way, nice work on the birthday party job:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/19/hitlers-...
I'm sure they got the shock of their nasty, brutish and short lives when you jumped out of the cake!
(But why didn't you stop by the command post before leaving town? I had nylons for you!)
I'll put the kettle on.
Chet, your forgetting the only Publicly owned (socialist) team in the NFL is the World Champion Green Bay Packers.
It's all cool. Investment Bankers are the wisest and most productive of all of our citizens. America's economic engine is just humming right along thanks to those lovable scamps.
They can have my democratically elected mayor when they pry him/her off my cold dead fingers!
Wait until these yahoos figure out that "the public" don't actually respond to the supposed logic of "market forces". Countdown to the great GOOP awakening has begun!
True to its name, the Armies of Ritchie & the Armies of Seger shall meet at Battle Creek, finally to decide the fate of the Michigan Republic. General Mathers shall lead the charge up Royal Oak, & dodging the Faygolage, will bludgeon the Clown Battalion. & once more, the Mitten shall be safe for Citizen Wayne.
"96 Tears" will be the new state hymn.
That was vivid as Revelations!
"96 Tears" is already the state anthem, although "Baby Love" is pretty popular too.
"You're gonna cry, cry, cry now. You're gonna cry…."
Companies expecting fees similar to those collected for work on corporate restructurings following the 2008 failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ) will be disappointed, Eisenberg said. Governments may pay $150 an hour compared with the $250 to $500 rate received by mid-size firms for corporate work and as much as $1,000 for larger advisory companies, he said.
Fixing your city — for a corporate executive it's crap work, but hey — three hundred grand is better than nothing, right?
Didn't Michigan learn the last time what happens when you put MBAs in charge?
Cough, Big Three Cough, W, Cough.
Pinto, Vega, Pacer. I rest my case.
Gremlin. Really? You named a car a Gremlin? No bad karma there, none at all.
Haven't you heard? That was because of the socialist unions. Why, ask any idiot Michigan voter, and they'll tell you this.
I am not making that up.
Emphasis on "idiot."
"W"?
$150 an hour to do government work? No wonder corporate elites think no one needs a union.
I believe the correct term for American Fascism is: Freedom!
Did he have that jacket woven from his own hair, or is he just very skilled at sculpting his shoulder fur?
I figgered this kinda shit would happen down here in Texas before anywhere else. Rick Perry is no doubt watching events in Michigan unfold with great interest.
Texas won't even have corporate managers. It will just be Mad Max on the High Plains.
Down here in the Hill Country, it'll be more like The Postman.
Hill Country will have been covered in splooge because Kevin Costner's wanked all over it?
"Rick Perry is no doubt watching events in Michigan unfold with great interest."
If not intelligence. Or ethics. Or morals. Or, well, any redeeming virtue.
Good Lord. If grey hair could be bleached and still emerge this beige, I couldn't find a better illustration than this mug shot.
This can only end in tears. The government shows up at town hall, is met by the local police, government guy calls state police, town citizens rifle up, national guard is called, but the governor has to leave a message because they're all in Afghanistan.
It's not that he's just appointing people who have no experience in government, he's planning to appoint corporate executives, who are the absolutely worst people to have government power; their experience teaches them to be worse than your average random person picked off the street at using government power, which is supposed to benefit the people rather than create profits. You could get better leaders appointing a bunch of garbagemen; or housecats.
"Fritz the Cat" for Governor!
Well, my house cat resents that. He can can bend around and lick his own butt. I challenge any corporate manager to do the same.
Wait a minute.
These city governments are often malignant with incompetence. When you win a city council seat with 110 votes…you get housecats with cellphones.
people who have no experience running governments.
And not coincidentally, the reason republicans hate governing so much is because they're so bad at it.
I'd like to see Snyder personally take control of Flint, Michigan, murder capitol of the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17...
I would lovveeeeeeeee to see what would happen if he tried to "appoint" someone to Flint. He'd better have a large supply, because those fuckers would get murdered weekly. They'll have to form a queue.
That is the most shocking story I've read in some time. I used to work in Flint. Michael Moore was an unknown running some bullshit underground newspaper at the time, Sounds like it's 20x worse there now. It sounds hopeless. Just hopeless. What's wrong with this country?
Flint was actually under state supervision as recently as 2002 and returned to local control two years later.
Michigan actually has quite a few cities that have had EFMs. This law gives them ungodly powers, and the whole introduction of the private sector into this is just nasty. They are trying to turn this into an industry.
EDIT: I see hit-piece writer is back at the Times. Should have figured reading the article. Flint is a hell of a grim city in parts, for sure, but just like about every city in Michigan and the country, the downtown population actually grew and the place is under constant renovation and revitalization. You've got thousands of students living in dorms and student housing downtown, now, because of the expansion of the University of Michigan – Flint, something that even a lot of other Michigan cities don't have in the immediate downtown area.
At the end of the day is anyone really surprised by this? Modern conservatism is synonymous with facism….the sooner our corporate overlords can run things the better. Privatization = perfection.
When did Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip become president of Michigan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_He...
Those hobo "restructuring executives" oughta pull themselves up by their bootstraps, pound the pavement and get some work the good ol' Amurrken way instead of leeching off the gubbmint like that.
"attracting the attention of restructuring executives as corporate work dissipates"
Wait just a cotton picking minute…this is a make-work project for out of work executives? W.T. Ever loving F?
A journey of a 10 million executions begins with the first goose step.
My appointment as President for Life of Muskegon should be announced any day now.
Haven't all the people who haven't completely lost their will to live moved out of MI by now? If not, seems like now would be a good time to be loading up the U-Haul.
We'll there's the University of Michigan, which I'm comfortably indentured to.
Got family members who are loading up the trailer as we speak.
I suppose I could move back in with the rellies in Cleveland. No, wait. Damn.
Boo HBO! I was expecting "Game Of Thrones" to be a lot more interesting than this!
Me too. I haven't read the books but I know about them and after listening to all the hype about the HBO thing, I watched. Very disappointed
It's still the setup now; the books don't get really exciting until about two-thirds of the way through, when – well, that would be a big-time spoiler. Having read them, the first episode looks promising. I just hope that, assuming the show continues, Martin actually manages to finish the series before HBO catches up to him.
I was attempting to snark on Michigan, not review the show. But now that you mention it, why is dead Captain Phil from "Deadliest Catch" parading around in that getup and phony accent?
Could it really be any worse than the endless corporate backseat driving they do already? At least when "maximum hellscape" is achieved, we'll know the names of the dicks what done it.
Perry is postponing his calls for secession for a bit to plead for US gov't aid.
Do they have a room full of idiots testing ideas? "No no try this one, it's even stupider than the last one"
Help! Don't leave me here when the wall goes up! I cannot live on Faygo and Vernors alone! …Come to think of it, maybe I could. But I'd also need booze.
Seriously, though, I hope any municipal officials to get the boot actively resist with the help of local law enforcement. I don't want violence, but I want some motherfuckers to take a goddamn stand for once (this will never happen, and we will all soon be in the Wolverine Re-education Camps; ironic, no?)
So just to recap, collective bargaining is out for government workers because they're greedy and tax payers can't afford it but for out of work corporate hacks, the taxpayers are on the hook for whatever the f*ck they feel like charging? Conservatives have a problem with basic accounting principles. Their zeal for fiscal responsibility is situational at best. When they're in charge, deficits don't matter.
Hey, um, any of these fired people going to object to their firings, and maybe, I don't know, sue or something? Or are they all wingnuts too, and are only too happy to do their part?
I have better things to do than look over at Big Failure, but I am sure conservatives are screaming about "government takeovers" and suggesting "Second Amendment solutions" about this.
Yeh, back when I was a kid, we actually voted for the people who ran our governments, then the Japs attacked the World Trade Center and the mayor and city counsel form of government was replaced by oligarchs and their minions. I like the word minions. Minions. Oligarch. I give myself an upfist.
Why wouldn't you want business people taking over for local officials? Michigan's business community has been doing such a GREAT job the last couple of decades. Detroit, Pontiac, Flint, all are what they are today directly because of the fabulous decisions by Michigan business people. (Ok, that and some really crooked mayors and city council people in Detroit, but I digress. ) I think that when the business people arrive at a town, they should show a nice slideshow of the neighborhoods and industrial areas of Detroit before presenting their time tested approaches.
Isn't this exactly what Putin did a few years back, changing the federal constitution so that he personally got to appoint the governors of federal subjects?
This is how they do it in France. Paris appoints the mayors. And they are usually entrepreneurs (French for assholes). How can decent Murkans adopt this fag frog system? The next thing you know guys will be kissing each other on the cheek in Wiscomichiganistan.
James Strang was a century & an half ahead of his time.
Conversely, if I'm Snyder, I don't go using any Port*a*johns.
This sounds very Robocop'ish….
Great. A state run by pointy-haired bosses.
Corporate Adviser? That's not how I translate "Gauleiter."
By "in my area" you mean the United States, right?
True. I should have realized. It's just that in hookworm territory there's so much that goes wrong.
Yep, it's that Snyder…but the backlash seems ambiguous, at this point in history…you'd think there was a spot in the concrete next to Jimmy Hoffa, but it remains to be seen…up here in the tip of the mitt, it's still the great depression (the first one) we haven't climbed out of yet, but no one seems to care – hey, it's snowing (and we haven't put away the snowmobile yet – anyone for open water races?…)
Oh, nice. I'm getting downfisted for being the messenger.
It’s probably about time we put walls around Michigan and Wisconsin
Electrified barbed wire fences would be more in apropos.
Remembered song lyrics in a Blood, Sweat and Tears song about henchmen…but looked it up and it's 40,000 Headmen. http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/blood_sweat_te...
And just by the way…am I going color blind? Or is this what the New Stoopid looks like?
Richard "Rick/Dicktator" Snyder will be the death of us. Ontario, you ready for a refugee crisis?
Open comment to LesPaultard (what an apt name):
Could you stop with your bullshit apologism for this bullshit power grab, already? You won't find a single Michigander who thinks that you could used the phrase "well managed" for how Benton Harbor has been governed. At the same time, this is a thread about a borderline illegal power grab by a bunch of racist or ignorant tea party conservatives in the legislature, which is such a disproportionate response to bad governance it's not even funny. How you can sit here and dump on Benton Harbor, as if it being a sucky place is any how a valid reason for the state to dissolve its council, is beyond me and it's quite frankly offensive and it makes me question whether your committment to all kinds of fairness.
I don't have any snark for you; your presence in this thread has been disgusting. You should really be ashmed of your "well, it's just a poorly-governed black town, anyway" schtick.
What a fucking face: Bucky Beaver with the Bachmann "Crazy Eyes". Why am I thinking there's kiddie porn lurking behind those eyes?
by Wild Swamps you mean wetlands?
So, is this a case of "we know better how to manage the nice stuff," keeping the coloreds from wrecking things?
And you have to pay $5000 a year to enter the golf course on what used to be a public park. Progress! Not to mention that golf courses are one of the most inefficient, wasteful uses of land there is; probably the only worse use are cemeteries. Great to use up acres so a bunch of rich white people can play a dull sport while getting drunk! If I was an Emergency Financial Manager, I'd convert all golf courses back to natural wilderness.
Only with better golf courses.
Things were already wrecked. Badly. The city is a freaking disaster. Riots in '03, hell even Jesse Jackson came for a summer, only to run away when he finally got a close look at the reality. They're in the hole for $6 million.
Well, no, locals can play there for $75 during the week, and the area the course is on was inaccessible.
No disagreement on your other points.
I guess I'm still a little worried when elected officials are removed by executive edict. It appears a bit unseemly.
Yes, it does. The community here supports the EFM, but we have been watching Benton Harbor destroy itself for more than 30 years. All of this stuf in Michigan is combining and coming to a head quickly with Snyder, who is rapidly losing support among the same people who support the EFM here in Benton Harbor.
Are you worried when the government officials demand a private company remove their executive(s) or demand to know how much they get paid? I am just asking?. To me, this also appears a bit unseemly.
Do you have an example of this occurring?
Considering that corporate executives make the most money of anyone on the planet and are completely useless parasites that do nothing useful but rip off their workers, customers and society at large, no.
Not yet, however we have a sitting president that endorses it.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sociali...
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
Obama wrote the dictionary? Damn, he's even more prolific than I thought! Or did Saul Alinsky ghostwrite this too?
Also/too, you be sure to let us know as soon as this happens!
Already has happened when Obummer used TARP (what a disgrace that should have never happened, Bush more than f/up'd on this one, the asswipe)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29003620/ns/business-...
They raised wetlands so that the chemicals (vast) that keep the golf courses lovely looking will seep into the surrounding groundwater….I'm told the local flora and fauna are suing Snyder, not to mention the local populace, to whom $75 for a round of golf is their next week's grocery money….how does this make any sense to someone who thinks of themselves as a libertarian…?
Yeah, I wonder about the fertilizer too. The course is right on the lake, it's all sand, so whatever they use goes right in the water. The people suing are not city residents, they are "friends of Jean Klock Park". The city made the golf course/park deal several years ago, and they got a good deal. Typically, some on the city council are now screaming about it…but it was their deal. The city is earning tax revenue from the golf course, as well as the new housing. They didn't lose anything, as I mentioned above the public park/beach is better than ever. The EFM is a separate matter.
I would much rather fuck a Nazi than a Teabagger, at least the SS were in good shape-physically that is..
They were startled by the sheer amount of firepower that I had stashed in my bra. The stockings were lovely, beats having to draw that line on my leg with the eyebrow pencil.
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