Our dear governor just rescued a bunch of Democrat constituencies from their series of poor choices, at the expense of everyone other taxpayer in the state.
The Detroit News: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer approves money for Highland Park water deal, school debt relief
She just gave out over $134 Million of state money to bailout some key Democrat institutions: Most notably $30 million to The City of Highland Park as a reward for its decision to not pay its water bill for decades, and for school systems also in debt due to overspending, mismanagement, and corruption.
The bills Whitmer signed also direct the Michigan Treasury Department to pay off $42.2 million in debt owed by Ypsilanti Community Schools, $31.3 million owed by the Muskegon Heights School District, about $18.4 million owed by the Pontiac City School District and more than $10 million owed by Benton Harbor Area Schools.
The money for Ypsilanti's school district includes $19.4 million to pay off the former Willow Run Community Schools' outstanding school bond loan fund balances or the school loan revolving fund balance. The Willow Run district merged with the Ypsilanti school system in 2013.
The spending bills also pay off $12 million in debt owed by the former Inkster School District, which a Republican-controlled Legislature dissolved in 2013.
Note these were all run into the ground by Democrat governance. Nothing is given to the school boards who properly managed their finances, nor to communities that actually paid their water bills, just more bailing out of Democrat-run, profligate spending government entities.
It has still never been explained where the money Highland Park collected from its residents for the water bills, and which it never paid to the water authority, actually went. Nor are we likely to ever get an answer, nor should we expect an accounting for these other communities' debts and what the money was actually wasted on.
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I live in the Muskegon area. Muskegon Heights has been a bad joke for a very long time. I saw the bailout proposed a few weeks ago, and I was both amazed and angry.
Amazed at the amount of money that the government allowed a small school district like the Heights to go so far into debt in the first place. They were put under control of an outsider at one point, then they were allowed to be a charter school. Nothing seemed to have helped.
The anger part comes due to the fact that the citizens of the state of Michigan are once again forced to pay for mismanagement by seemingly political actors. But Muskegon Heights has only some 11,000 residents in the entire 3 square mile area. They have been in trouble for over a decade, with the state stepping in and placing the school system in receivership.
In 2021, The Empress of Lansing proudly released the school system from that financial receivership. No doubt being proud of doing such a bang up job with the whole thing. Now, just like the financial numbers that the Biden administration hands out every month, it seems like they must be revised downward.
But hey, who cares, it is only fake money printed by a fake federal reserve system that doesn't have any money of it's own and controls the destiny of over 330 million Americans. And The Empress, Whitless can make a move for the national stage come the next election or the next Democrat presidency. I suppose we should be glad that the mostly minority people in the Heights are not illegal immigrants, or they would tear down the entire blighted city and put up new buildings to house them.
pigpen51: Yep, I'm not a fan of saving idiots form the consequences of their actions, especially when there are no consequences and the same people or party that caused the problem is left to do the same thing again, knowing that they will be bailed out in the future.
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