Category: Real Discussion II

What can we do? How can we fight? What solutions can we bring to the table?

STOP Citizen

“You have already consumed your daily caloric intake of 2500.  Please report to the nearest State Dept of Excess for purging.” Reposted from RightMichigan.com What?  You didn’t expect that your health choices would matter any longer? By golly those house…

AFP Michigan Praises Senate for Standing Firm Against Medicaid Expansion

Activists “will remain vigilant” even as lawmakers head home, says state director. LANSING, Mich.—Following its months-long effort to defeat a proposed Medicaid expansion, the grassroots group Americans for Prosperity-Michigan today thanked state senators for standing firm for taxpayers and future…

Cronyists Line Up To Smack Down The Little Guy

Reposted from RightMichigan.com The main street crony action force is out. What better way to insure higher prices, less competition, and bigger bureaucracies than to pass the so-called “MainStreet Fairness Act”? A letter being sent today to the Michigan Congressional…

AFP: Medicaid Bill Largest Expansion of State Gov’t Since the Income Tax

Sunset clauses “unrealistic figment of the political imagination,” state director says. LANSING, Mich.—Calling it the largest expansion of state government since the income tax, Americans for Prosperity-Michigan urged State Senators in a key vote alert today to oppose expanding Medicaid…

Miller on Proof of Citizenship Ruling

Chairman of House Administration Says SCOTUS Ruling Demonstrates How Federal Mandates Can Paralyze States’ Ability to Protect the Integrity of Elections; Says Outdated Law Requires States to Rely on Obsolete, Unresponsive Election Agency WASHINGTON – Committee on House Administration Chairman…

A Look Into The Future Of Elections

One has to wonder what the future of politics in Michigan holds for us. Imagine if one of our local clerks was to look into the future and produce a ballot that is Pure Michigan. It might look like this.…

AFP -Michigan Urges State Legislators to Resist Medicaid Expansion

Americans for Prosperity-Michigan lays it out. On the heels of a crucial vote in the House Competitiveness Committee, the grassroots group Americans for Prosperity-Michigan urged state lawmakers to resist expanding Medicaid as allowed under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…

Wendy Day To Run For State Rep

The first I had heard of Wendy was several years ago when she was making waves in Howell. Her willingness to help bring together grassroots activists as an early tea activist spawned into a movement against what we know as…

MiFairTax: ELIMINATE the IRS

According to recent surveys, the vast majority of Americans think the government is too big and too intrusive.  The most intrusive and feared agency of the U.S. government is the IRS.  Not only do we fear an intrusive audit of…