“Financial Martial Law” declared in Michigan. What could possibly go wrong?
(the bill) allows the governor to dissolve the elected governments of Michigan’s towns and cities, replacing them with unaccountable “emergency financial managers” who can eliminate services, merge or eliminate school boards, and lay off or renegotiate unionized public employees without recourse. Republican senator Jack Brandenburg — who supported the measure — calls it “financial martial law.”
So here is the deal. The financial crisis brought about by Bush’s reckless tax cuts, two vanity wars, cowardly corporatist Democrats and gross bank fraud and malfeasance has given some closet teabagging fascists the right to fuck shit up at will. That’s wingnut democracy for you. Huzzah!
Wingnut Comment Preemption: I know that the Governor was elected in an election. I get it. Elections have consequences. But if you think that the people of Michagan thought that they were voting for this, you have a screw loose.