Showing posts with label Government Competence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government Competence. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Without Government, Who Would Create A Shortage Of Road Salt?

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The Detroit Free Press:  Salt shortage has Michigan scrambling to keep roads clear Yep, there was a clear lack of planning ahead and...
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Friday, December 05, 2025

Playing With Other People's Money Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry

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The Michigan Municipal Employees' Retirement System is on a roll.   It's a losing roll, but quite a roll nonetheless. $155 million i...
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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Get Your Democrat Crony Capitalism Right Here

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Once again Gov Whitmer is picking winners and losers, but, mostly losers. After wasting millions on failed battery plant  projects, subsidi...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

Going Fast And Breaking Things Has Consequences

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While Trump is right to be proceeding with reforms, in doing so he and his administration are going a tad too fast. This is causing a lot of...
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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Surely, They Can't Be That Stupid

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Apparently, they can indeed be that stupid, and stop calling me Shirley: The term, Intelligence Community when applied to the American versi...
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Thursday, February 13, 2025

I Did Not Know That Michigan's Libraries Are

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Heavily, and in some case majorly, funded by traffic tickets and penal fines.  I had figured that library mileages on property taxes were re...
Thursday, May 02, 2024

Another Insane FAFSA Change

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Effective January 1 this year , having multiple students in college does not effect you expected financial contribution.  It used to be if y...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2024

FAFSAing Around

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The Freep is a master of understatement for the actual cause  of the woe expressed in the article: Significantly fewer students have complet...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Michigan Liquor Control Commission Under The Democrats : A Million $ In Booze Disappears

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This is fine: $961K in liquor went missing from Michigan commission's inventory, audit finds Quality Democrat competence here, and yes t...
Friday, June 16, 2023

Apparently, It Does Take Someone (Or Even Two People) Getting Killed To Be Fired From A Detroit Union Job

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The Detroit News:  Detroit bus driver who killed pedestrian downtown fired A bus driver with a record of a crash per year (unclear if it is ...
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Sunday, March 05, 2023

Biden's FAA Nominee Don't Know Much About Aviation

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The questions asked of him were pretty much what a private pilot candidate should expect to know for their written or oral exam. Not particu...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Surprise: Not Only Do Michigan Roads Suck, But The Quality Control Does Too!

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Well, surprising no one really, there's a very cozy relationship between the state road agency and the contractors that "fix" ...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

No One Could Have Seen That Coming, Oh Wait . . .

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The Mercury News: Uvalde killer earned ominous nickname: ‘school shooter’  That's what most people would call a "clue". This i...
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Monday, July 18, 2022

Fun With The Federal Government

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I'm trying to renew my NEXUS membership. NEXUS is about the best traveler program you can get - all the benefits of TSA PRE, Global Entr...
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Sunday, March 06, 2022

There Is Nothing Government Operates That Cannot Lose Money

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From marijuana , to whorehouses to now legalized gambling.  Government somehow always manages to lose money on a sure thing. Reason: D.C. M...
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Thursday, February 17, 2022

Justin You Schmuck: 1984 is Not Supposed To Be A How-To Manual

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So it looks like Canada under Trudeau is going all Total Surveillance / Total Control State so fast the banks are having issues. The Emergen...
Thursday, December 09, 2021

Paper Doesn't Reset

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Currently having the joy of doing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid FAFSA application for Abby for next year. Back when I did it,...
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Sunday, August 22, 2021

Yes The US Government Did Badly Mess Up The Gas Can

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In the Detroit Free Press, a leftist columnist laments that modern American gas cans doth suck.  That it took him this long to realize it ma...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Postal Disservice Yet Again

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I placed an order for a few of a very useful AR15 type magazine accessory from Buds Guns. It's the Thermold AR15 Magazine Loader .  For ...
Friday, March 19, 2021

What Good Is Reporting Unemployment Fraud if They Don't Act On It?

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Back in June 2020 someone placed a false unemployment insurance request under Tash's name.  They got the home address right, but interes...
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