Bishop Obstructionism Based On Governor Granholm's Economic Plan

by: Christine

Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 00:40:22 AM EDT

The increase in the minimum wage is just one part of the Governor's economic plan. The plan also includes factors such as the earned income tax credit, making affordable health care accessible to everyone, increasing standards in public schools, etc. Now if you will keep that in mind, let's consider Mike Bishop's recent list of demands. In fact, let's take a look at it this way:

• earned income tax credit


• affordable access to health care


• increasing the standards in public schools


• making college more affordable


• creating jobs today


• workforce retraining through programs such as NWLB
• improving the quality of life in Michigan 

• freezing the earned income tax credit


• Medicaid reforms that reduce access


• reducing wages and benefits to public school teachers


• cuts to university funding and a freeze on new programs like the Michigan Promise 


• freezing public works projects


• a moratorium on new programs


• reducing/consolidating the Departments of History,  Arts, and Libraries, Information  Technology, Environmental Quality, and Natural Resources

Striking, isn't it? It's as though Mike Bishop took the Governor's economic plan and decided to attack each piece of it.

It would have been more productive for him to offer an alternative economic plan, rather than use the Senate to destroy the one we have.