Yesterday the hyperconservative Michigan legislature arbitrarily decided that everybody gets four years out of their whole life to be poor. 48 months. After that, you need to really buckle under and stop being poor already.
The Michigan Legislature approved a bill capping lifetime welfare benefits at 48 months.
But even that seemed a little too sissypants, feel good, hippyish to the Michigan legislature, so just to be macho dicks, they made the law retroactive to 2006. Yeah...yeah, that's more like it.
As of October 1st this year, 12,600 families...FAMILIES with children..are going to be cut off in a Michigan economy with U3 unemployment now at 10.3% and rising again as Snyder's removal of tax credits has manufacturers fleeing the state.
But hey! At least it's going to save the State $77,000,000! Which means they can now fund a public school....HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
I'm kidding, of course. They've already given the money away as tax breaks to companies like the Multilevel Marketing pyramid scheme AmWay which just had its first $1 billion dollar month in its history. Funny how a company that preys on desperation does well in hard times.
I imagine this assault on the poor is going to work our fabulously. What could possibly go wrong when, month after month, tens of thousands of more people have nowhere else to turn? Obviously they're going to turn to good old fashioned farming and other wholesome economic ventures.
Say, if you haven't signed the petition to recall Rick Snyder. DO IT. Do it now.