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Michigan's Governmental Emergency

The State of Michigan is under siege by a Republican governor, Rick Snyder, and a Republican-controlled legislature that have combined together and violated constitutional norms by imposing a Gestapo-like dictatorship over the state under the guise of the so-called emergency manager law. Whatever economic emergencies in Michigan there are today have been caused by Republican/Democrat economic policies passed on by the legacy of Ronald Reagan, the free trade policies of Bill Clinton, et al., and all of those bad policies cemented by George Bush II & Barack Obama, but for the state to run roughshod over municipalities, counties and townships by extending their governmental power to effectively veto what is ordinarily and constitutionally the prerogative of the latter is nothing but rule by nondemocratic fiat. An "emergency" to them is whatever home rule policies, voted through by the will of the people, that they don't happen to like. Not to mention that these usurpers in Michigan are collaborators with the very unseemly "Blackwater" organization, not that the national government isn't also. Regarding the efforts by Michiganders to re-call Snyder by petition, they have our wholehearted support.

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