Michigan’s Government Crisis
The state of Michigan won’t fall of the face of the earth, nor will its population regress into a new dark age, like the post-Visigoth Romans. Life will go on, without a hiccup, even if the legislature can’t balance the budget, and most government operations cease.
“That would be terrible, terrible, terrible for the state,” [Governor] Granholm said Friday “These are services that citizens rely on.”
I can’t underestimate what an exaggeration that statement is. Hell, the Czechs survived for at least six months or so, last year, during which the entire country was without parliament. And since I haven’t heard any stories of the Czech republic falling off the face of the earth, I’ll presume that it hasn’t happened.
Aside from the surprising number of commentators on the freep forum calling for permanent abolition (which unfortunately, is probably just hyperbole), most of the comments are predictably partisan: red vs. blue, republican vs. democrat. The commonality among the comments of this sort, is that the current government crisis is the fault of one particular politician or another, or the fault of one particular set of laws or tax proposals, etc. For everyone blaming former Governor Engler, there’s some dickweed calling all democrats “retards,” and for every person blaming Jennifer Granholm, there’s some liberal arts grad talking about how “crime will increase if we cut welfare entitlements.”
They all suffer from the same fallacy, a variant of Kip’s Law, that if only the right people were in power, everything would be hunky-dory. They see only the people in power as the problem, but as long as man is fallible or corruptible, it is not man, but the concentrated power of the State that is the problem.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for an impasse. Let the people in Michigan realize that they can do for themselves most (if not all) of those things for which they currently rely on the state. Let them see that the very earth upon which they walk will not be torn asunder if the State stops taking money from this group and writing checks to that group. I say shut her down.
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