"And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks back at you." - Nietzsche
Why is it every time I hear Dick speak, or read about his "plans", I feel like I'm looking into the abyss?
Run! Save yourselves!
Dick DeVos, businessman and Republican candidate for governor, unveiled a sweeping, if somewhat unspecific, plan for job creation Wednesday, calling for a mix of tax cuts, reduced government spending and entrepreneurial dynamism to rouse the state from its economic doldrums.
DeVos plan, dubbed "The Michigan Turnaround Plan: Version 2.0," included many ideas he has endorsed earlier, like elimination of the state Single Business Tax and a 4-year time limit for welfare benefits.
Dick would cut off funding for 36,000 children. Every time they say "cut welfare"- they are generally talking about families with children. From the Free Press last December-
Boyd said a strict cutoff would jeopardize an estimated 36,000 children who are eligible for welfare but might lose it because their parents don't comply with the new rules. Public assistance is generally available to families with children, and not for single, able-bodied adults.
Still waiting for the "job creation" part of Dick's plan...
Along with many borrowed from traditional Republican playbooks, like curtailing health insurance costs in public schools, merit pay for teachers and tort liability for health care providers.
DeVos also proposed eliminating state income taxes for families earning $14,000 or less, cutting business equipment taxation and spending more on higher education and in public school classrooms.
The plan contains 134 "action steps" and comes after months of criticism from Democrats that DeVos was asking voters to turn out Gov. Jennifer Granholm but not presenting a credible alternative.
Still waiting for the "job creation" part of Dick's plan...
Among the innovations he suggested, was the creation of a "bureaucracy override" for the governor, cutting through red tape and getting government decisions made.
A "bureaucracy override" sounds a bit like "unitary executive power" to me, but, anyway... still waiting for the "job creation" part of Dick's plan...
He declined, however, to offer detailed ideas about how the hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings his plan envisions could be achieved, and said he probably would not do so before the election in November.
Ah, Dick isn't going to tell us his plan. How convenient. For Dick.
Maybe the Free Press will divulge the "134 steps", but I have this feeling that it's more of the above. Lots of vague notions, looting of the treasury, and hurting the poor. You know, the "traditional Republican playbook". That will create lots of jobs, I'm sure.
This guy is a joke.