By John Bebow - October 4, 2007
Heads were shaking in at gas station lottery terminals, shopping malls, casino aisles, high school football games, and just about everywhere else in Michigan as the state teetered on the edge of government shutdown and then later with the news of the tax increases.
No doubt, citizens can be quick to judge. But how many invest the time to understand the nature, or difficulty, of the work under that shiny white dome in Lansing? Not very often, according to the latest poll by the Inside Michigan Politics newsletter...
Only 43 percent of 600 registered voters who were queried correctly identified the Democrats as the party currently in power in the Michigan House. Only 33 percent correctly noted that Republicans control the state Senate.
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Common all too common in America. Michigan get a clue. You are the "We the people..." that the political foundation of America is built on. If you crumble it all caves in. Standup, speakup, be the people you were born to be. Greatness is in all of us not the elite upper class of our imagination. We are Michigan. We need to freely express what we want and have the faith and trust that if we all speak the truth that we can make our future better. It has always been that way in America. Many hard times have been faced and changed for the better but only when everyone tries together.
When a farmer looks at his tractor he sees the cost of the fuel but he also sees the crop that it can produce. In politics we the people have our attention drawn to taxes, the fuel of government rather than to the product (crop?) that government can produce. We are looking at the wrong end of the horse and are being shown the problems rather than the opportunities.
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