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In reply to the discussion: Fascism alert - Rick Snyder seeks new Emergency Manager Law, immune from referendum [View all]defacto7
(13,485 posts)4. It's hard for me to believe..
that there are people in the US who actually make political decisions like this. Are they blind to history? Do they think they are omnipotent? Do they think at all? Rick Snyder sounds like Mussolini.
When was politics invaded by so many self aggrandizing, uneducated, morons?
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HiPointDem
Dec 2012
OP
Michigan legislature cut taxes on business (to zero), raised them on poor people, rich pay $7
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#1
Not really. They think they can get away with raping an pillaging enough to make
1monster
Dec 2012
#13
Exactly. If there is any justice, eventually, the courts will rule all of those sales
1monster
Dec 2012
#15
i don't know that there are any court battles. they're building a dialysis clinic on the parkland
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#16
Try building something without first getting the proper permits... Government has
1monster
Dec 2012
#19
3/23/33: "Enabling Act" effectively hands legislative powers of the Reichstag to the Chancellor
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#5
The powers-that-be could figure out how to put Blagojevich in prison but can't figure out how to do
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#6
the powers that be *love* snyder. they put him in office. As a former venture (vulture) capitalist
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#7
We were told that "we" won. We were told that Obama won. Doesn't the DOJ report to Holder who
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#22
if only. the voters barely repealed it by 4 points. people are stupid and are going to suffer for
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#10
Are there not Federal protections that could be used to intercede on behalf of the cities?
Ford_Prefect
Dec 2012
#12
please consider making this post a new OP. there is so much happening all at once in MI, it's
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#18
it was only one year before the people repealed the EM law, but the EM sold half of Pontiac in the
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#23
Court orders can remove EM laws and right to work laws if the courts find it unconstitutional
Panasonic
Dec 2012
#25
Benton Harbor = they want to privatize the beach and make a golf course $$$$$ for the 1% eom
amborin
Dec 2012
#29
already done. they gave the city some other land for a park in exchange & the emergency manager
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#30