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Originally Posted by Boreas
You mean to keep those agencies and states functioning. The alternative was, what? Chaos and collapse is what. I know, that's an acceptable price to pay if it brings about the destruction of the unions. Same with the auto industry.
Anyway, the money went to the states, not to the unions. As a result, just as in the auto "bailout", American jobs were saved. Some were union jobs and some were not. Some were state jobs and some were not.
Would you have preferred to see the Federal government insert a poison pill into the stimulus that required the states bust the public sector unions as a precondition for receiving the money?
That's a rhetorical question.
John
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From my perspective, at least here in MI, the Granholm bunch kicked the can down the road for years. The stimulus money just postponed for another year the decisions that should have been made to right-size the state government. Instead, federal money, raised from taxes of those who don't reside in Michigan, who didn't cause the intractable issues here and who's tax money should have been spent closer to home, were asked to bail out the state of MI. Folks who reside in other states who were hit just as hard by the recession watched at their tax contributions were "gifted" to states to keep state employees in a paycheck.
Sorry, that's just wrong to me.