Check our this article about Michigan’s deficit: So Michigan – one of the grandest of states in my estimation, as far as people and natural aesthetics — is running a $1.3 billion dollar deficit. So what, a tenth of a percent of the tarp program — pocket change – and they’re cutting government spending by $300 million while filling in the rest of the hole with federal “stimulus” money. Sounds like GM to me. How long can you risk operating at a deficit. If there is anything we should have learned from the banking and auto crisis, it’s don’t overextend yourself. The market can shift in an instant and you’d better make sure you have the cash flow to adjust. If I overdraft my meager checking account I get charged a juicy $33-per-transaction overdraft charge, and you bet your dollar-bill-shooting ass I overcorrect my mismanaged budget. The state is simply making minor cuts and doing the equivilent of supplementing their inflated lifestyle with Grandma’s Christmas check — which doesn’t last long. Believe me. Hey, Michigan, I recommend you downgrade from Heineken to Natural Light and start getting drunker before you go out so you don’t spend so much at the bar. That’s what I do in tough times. I even buy my clothes at Goodwill and eat other people’s leftover grilled cheeses out of the garbage. Well, minus the last part. What’s worse: The article indicates they are counting on another chunk of $650 million — aka next year’s Christmas money — to subsidize a projected 2010 budget deficit. Stop it already. Please. Fire enough people and withdraw enough grant money that we can have a few dollars extra. If government is too big for what Michigan gets in tax revenue, do something about it. You’re all a bunch of wishy-washy, ass-kissing, pretentious bastards, to worried to make a big cut that will damage your voting base. That is why government is never efficient. And then they’re cutting Medicaid, which is a very touchy cut to make because it already insufficiently subsidizes the government-teet-suckling moochers that it’s supposed to be for. And guess what: When the government doesn’t provide a hospital the market value of their servies, they either pass it on to the insurance companies and paying patients, or find a new line of work, neither which it good for society. We pay Medicaid as taxpayers and then we pay extra as patients. Entitlements don’t work. They don’t and never will. Charity is one thing, but people will never — never — respect money given to them for free and which they are deemed “entitled.”
Tags: cuts, Detroit, government, granholm, libertarian, Michigan, soialism, taxes
