Showing posts with label government spending. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government spending. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Forget It Jake, It's Detroit

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The Detroit News:   Ex-cons, deadbeats oversee Detroit agency fleeced in $19M alleged fraud A public health network in Detroit that federal ...
Friday, May 01, 2026

Not What A Rainy Day Fund Is For

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Michigan Democrats are indeed profligate spenders. The state's budget and spending has increased by 50% just under Governor Whitmer'...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Where All The Students Are Above Average

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In the continued inflation of American education, it is now admitted that students are getting higher grades on their college entrance class...
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Sunday, February 22, 2026

More On California's High-Speed Train Corruption

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Not only is the corruption and over-spending in the California high speed rail project bad enough that it is at 135 Billion dollars in spend...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Two Months In, And He's Already Running Out Of Other People's Money

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 Mamdani's grandiose plan of spending an additional 11 billion dollars to New York City's already grossly inflated budget is running...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

How Much Fraud Is In The US Economy?

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Mr. B. looked with some dread at the question : How much of the US economy is fake? If you consider US state and federal government going to...
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Monday, September 22, 2025

It's Good To Be The Mayor Of Dearbonistan

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Interesting article on the upcoming mayoral election in Deaborn. The Detroit Free Press:  Dearborn candidate running for mayor vows to battl...
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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 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...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Corruption And The Problem Of Scale

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DOGE is finding an impressive amount of government corruption, fraud, and featherbedding networks in US Treasury payments.  Verily they are ...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

A Truly Tremendous Use of Your Federal Taxpayer Dollars

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Yes,  Visit Detroit, via a grant from the Michigan Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus, which itself got the money from Covid reli...
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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Democrat Math - Spend Over $100 Million to save $50 Million

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Our Democrat County Executive is touting his cunning plan to save $50 million in rehab expenses of existing county government buildings by b...
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Thursday, June 08, 2023

Michigan Dems' Plan To Bail Out Broke Dem City Proceeds Apace

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You never have to say you're sorry, so long as there's still other people's money available. The Detroit News: Highland Park, GL...
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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Electric School Bus 2: Electric Boogalo and A Little Democrat Corruption Too

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Turns out Electric Buses aren't as reliable nor as cost-effective as they are cracked up to be, shocking, I know. Washington Free Beacon...
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Monday, May 08, 2023

Michigan Moronrail: Let's Talk About Choo-Choos for $100 Million Dollars

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High-speed rail is a Democrat fever-dream they just can't give up on.  They problem is their only answer for their fever is instead of m...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Oh Joy, Michigan Now Has A Poet Laureate

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Yep, as expected the choice was indeed politically correct. The Detroit Free Press:  Meet Nandi Comer, Michigan's first poet laureate si...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Does Michigan Really Need A State Poet?

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With everything else facing this state, do we need to spend $67,000 for a post of State Poet Laureate, when the post has not even been fille...
Thursday, February 09, 2023

The State Of Michigan Spending Spree

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In an effort to drain the surplus to prevent the automatic state income tax cut, and to spend money faster than a drunken sailor ( and a dru...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2023

In A Desperate Move To Avoid A Tax Cut Whitmer Resorts To Outright Bribery

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Our Dear  Governor Whitmer is stating she will send a check for $180 to each taxpayer - thereby reducing the budget surplus in order to avoi...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Detroit Schools: Throwing More Money At A Problem Does Not Solve The Problem

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Detroit Schools got the greatest amount of Covid aid of any school system in Michigan.  Not only that it got the greatest amount of Federal ...
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