Saw this on the Rachel Maddow Show, tonite.
And it was Great to see Michigan Democrats fighting back, against the systematic dismantling of their Great state, that has been going on since Governor Rick Sndyer took over.
Here the story and the clip, in case you missed it:
With video: Democrats assail Gov. Rick Snyder's agenda as job killing, not job creating
Peter Luke, MLive.com -- Thursday, March 31, 2011
Michigan Democrats say Gov. Rick Snyder isn’t reinventing Michigan, but “ruining it” through an agenda that in it first three months would cut schools by hundreds of millions, raise taxes on seniors and the working poor, and eliminate six weeks of unemployment benefits for the newly jobless in 2012.
In a three-minute web video they released today, Democrats lay out what they say is the “real story” of Snyder’s first quarter in office that will lead not to job creation, but job loss.
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Add to the list of Snyder outrages -- Now he's actually "cutting" unemployment benefits, in Michigan -- in a Bill originally designed to extend those benefits.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed the bill, which was originally drafted to extend federal unemployment benefits through the end of the year. The added measure will reduce state-funded benefits from 26 weeks to 20 weeks, which should benefit Michigan employers by lowering the unemployment taxes they will pay next year.
Incredible!
The Michigan Democratic Party responds ...
Michigan Democratic Party video
http://www.youtube.com/...
The dramatic video ends with the following:
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One Governor.
Three Months.
150 School Districts Near Bankruptcy.
21 State Police Posts to Close.
Months of Unemployment Benefits Cut.
Rick Snyder:
"A reinvention of Michigan ..."
That's not "reinventing" Michigan ...
That ruining Michigan.
Nice re-framing of the Snyder Agenda. I hope we see more, like this.
I hope the National Snooze Media starts covering the "Dismantling of Michigan" going on before our eyes, too.
That's not "reinventing" America ...
That ruining America!
All -- Thanks to the new Tea Party Governors, giving away the store, according to their well-sponsored, but ill-founded, Privatization Agenda ...
All Fallout, thanks to the recent Citizen United decision, a decision that puts unseen Billionaires in the political Driver's Seat!