A Weekly Post of My Thoughts and Question to Everyone of Why? In the "D" ( new thoughts are written in red to my previous Thoughts and Questions)
Why do Michigan Residents pay more for auto insurance then any other State? (Quite
simple, the insurance industry and their lobbyists are the most
powerful lobbying group in the State and pretty much tell our State
Legislature what to do and when to do it. The State Legislature for many
years has become the puppet and the insurance industry is the puppet
master holding the strings. Every time anybody tries to do anything that
would help reduce the absurd amount we pay for auto insurance it is met
with great resistance in Lansing. It will continue to be like this
until enough people get fed up with the high amounts for auto insurance
and make it clear to the State legislature that it needs to change and
then and only then may we see the change that is so greatly needed.) Both the Auto Insurance and the Health Insurance Industries are playing each other against the People of the State of Michigan so they can continue to line their pockets with Millions of Dollars of Our hard earned money).
Why did Wayne County allow theri budget deficit to reach the pitfall it currently is at? (
You can point lots of fingers at many appointed Officials but it all
boils down to those in charge and those on the Board that continued to
allow it to reach the deficit it currently has! Only with tough cuts and
concessions and a strong Strategic Plan going forward will the County
be able to recover. Stay turned for this is going to get allot uglier
before it will ever get better.)
Why
is the Michigan State Legislature forcing the Good People of Michigan
to vote on a sales tax to repair the roads when they should of addressed
this issue on their own? ( The Legislature has no
problem putting futile bills together to sign into law but didn't want
to the job they are paid to do and showed no backbone when they couldn't
put a bill together to fix the roads, instead they gave the fine People
in the State of Michigan a no choice bill to vote into law which
essentially does the Legislatures job to fix the terrible roads in
disrepair. And roads that have been fixed or repaired are already
failing and this is unacceptable to all taxpayers in the State of
Michigan. ( Legislature still has no clue as to what they are doing! Its been 3 weeks since the road mileage was defeated and yet all these knuckleheads want to do is point fingers at each other and not do what is right for the State and its People! Maybe, the People need to make changes and vote for Politicians who will do what is right for the People and not for their own Political agenda or the agenda of their chosen Party!)
Why are so many bridges and underpasses in such bad shape and yet the State is doing very little to fix them in an urgent manner? (Again,
the infrastructure of the roads and these areas in Michigan are bad,
really bad and despite what the State continues to tell us, I do not see
a clearly defined plan to help fix these areas where they are becoming
more and more unsafe each and every day. Dilapidated bridges and over
passes are crumbling and causing major issues and are becoming very
unsafe to drive on and under for motorists. )
Why does the State of Michigan want to bring a persons religious preference into the decision making process of adoption? (
Religion belongs out of the State decision and it is crazy to allow a
law to be passed which allows a persons religious preference to be part
of the adoption making process and even more so, allow someone to make a
decision about a person's religious preference based on their own
thoughts and beliefs.)
Why is it all these beautiful
renovated properties in Detroit are so high priced as condos and
apartments and lofts that hard working middle class can't afford to live
in them? Where is all the so called affordable housing promised in the
City of Detroit and who figured out the cost of what affordable housing
really is?( Again, no one wants to say what
constitutes affordable housing in Downtown Detroit! $2.00 a sq. foot is
not affordable to anyone except the affluent and they make up only a
small percentage of those living in Detroit. On a side note, kudos to
Meijers' for opening their 2nd grocery store within Detroit's city
limits.) Still waiting for those who keep saying affordable housing is going to make up 20% of the Detroit housing market to define what this actually means and where it will be)!!!!!
Why is there not a more concentrated
effort in the City of Detroit to really address the issues of the
Homeless, lack of Shelters, feeding the poor and hungry? What about
using some of the abandoned buildings all over the City to help?(The
City of Detroit is doing allot to collect back taxes and owed water
bills and such but there is really no mention either from the City of
Detroit or the Sate itself as to what they are going to do moving
forward to address these issues. It seems they just want all of this to
go away which we all know isn't going to happen without a long term plan
and commitment.)
Why
does the State of Michigan continue to allow people to carry weapons
onto and into schools? Change the rules and allow People to carry open
arms but just not into Schools and most Public Places.(It
is crazy to think that we have allowed this to even be a common
occurrence and now we see that those who do carry a weapon(s) legally
are pushing the envelope by walking down the street and onto school
grounds forcing law enforcement and their resources to go out and make
sure these people are law abiding citizens.)
Why
are there so many fire hydrants in the city of Detroit not working and
why has this been allowed to continue to happen? There is an estimated
10,000 fire hydrants not working in Detroit right now and I hear they
are working to fix them but again where is the plan to fix them and when
will they all be fixed? How many more homes and businesses need to be
destroyed because the hydrant wasn't working and it delayed the fire
department from doing their job!
Why is violence on
the upswing at an alarming rate in the City of Detroit! Violent
crimes,
robberies, car jacking, drugs, and homicides are on the rise? why why
why and what is being done to combat these issues? (Robberies, car
jackings, shootings, brutal violence, and overall crime seems to be on
the rise again, Police Chief of Detroit says He wouldn't get gas at night in the City of Detroit with all the carjackings going on, tells us all we need to know about how unsafe the City is right now).
New Questions and Thoughts:
Why
does Gov. Synder and the State of Michigan continue to allow the State
Tax Tribunal to cave in to Big Business and not pay their fair share of
tax? ( In Sunday, 4/12/15 newspaper edition of the
Detroit News/FreePress was a scathing article about how the State of
Michigan's tax tribunal continues to allow companies such as WM, Lowe's
Home Depot etc, get away with not paying their fair share of tax. Whether
it is a loophole or caving in for whatever reason, it is truly hurting
the Communities that these Businesses are in and yet the State doesn't
seem to really care if they do or don't! Gov. Synder needs to step in
and fix this issue before it is too late!)
Why
is there becoming more and more excessive force being used by law
enforcement agencies not only in Michigan but all over the Country? (
It seems that it is becoming the norm and acceptable practice that it
is ok for law enforcement to use excessive and often deadly force when
it comes to apprehending an alleged suspect or taking law into their own
hands without repercussions, No one doubts that law enforcement
personnel risk their lives everyday and face tough decisions and often
split second decisions when involved in a situation, but as caught on
camera time and time again, the use of force is way out of line and
unless it is caught on camera or recorded, most of the time the benefit
of doubt always seem to protect law enforcement officers. It is time
for all officers to wear body cameras to record the incidents as a way
to be transparent and really understand what happens in these
incidents). ( City of Inkster agrees to pay a man $1.4M for being beaten savagely by rogue cop(s) and then they planted bogus fake evidence against the man as well.)
Elsewhere:
Why do all the Presidential Candidates assume the American People are stupid? (
It seems that Candidates are lining up from both parties for the next
Presidential election and have already started to slam all other
candidates even those in their own Political Parties. I find it quite
amazing but also very troubling that all these Candidates use the media
to tell everyone what is wrong with their opponents and all the terrible
things they have done and what they stand for and why their opponents
won't be a President instead of telling the People what makes them stand
out as a Candidate and why they should be the next President and where
they stand on key political issues and lay out to the People what
exactly is their platform. But we have become a society where it is
better to mislead and tear apart our opponents instead of taking the
high road. When is the last time We have ever seen a Presidential race
that took the high road and ran a clean and just campaign and not a mud
slinging tear apart each other and never tell the People what the
Candidates really stood for and how they would run the Country if given
the chance?)
Why does the Government continue to be so nonchalant when other Nations hack into our National data bases? ( It was confirmed a couple of weeks ago that Russia had hacked into the White House Data Bases and
all We hear is that the US Government is looking into it! This is
absurd, we continue to hear that Terrorist Groups and other Nations
continue to hack into our Countries computer systems as well as
Businesses too. When will we as a Nation stop fooling ourselves and see
that the intentions of these Nations and Terrorists Groups are for real
and need to be addressed immediately! It is time to stop being for
Politically or Diplomatically correct and make sure all these who
continue to jeopardize the safety of our great Nation take heed and
notice!)
Why can't the DNC and GOP play well together and try, just try to find common ground on anything? (
I find it insulting as an American that both parties continue to think
the great People in the USA should sit back and let them stay along
party lines that are full of archaic thinking and the good ole boys
networking while the Country is falling apart in front of Our eyes and
everyone else's as well.)
Why
do We the People of this great Nation keep allowing these lawmakers to
tell us what they are going to do for us instead of them listening to
what we want and not what their Party wants for us? (
Again neither party listens to what the needs are of the People or do
they want to, they expect us to take whatever they try to cram down our
throats.)
Why
do all the Presidential Candidates never lay out a true platform agenda
and where their stand on all the issues at hand and even more so why do
We, the People, continue to accept from the Parties a common no
response answer? ( We will ever see in Our
lifetime, a true political agenda from all Presidential Candidates and
what their stance is on key agenda items that are important to the
People and not hear the normal blah blah blah .) (All the Pres. Candidates are starting to emerge for their perspective Parties and the slamming of each other has begun. For just once, please have these Candidates tell us what their actual platform and stance on critical issues are instead of trying to tell us what their opponents aren't good at)!!!!!
Why do We continue to jeopardize our Nations security by not making our borders more secure? (
It seems that everyone tells us how important it is to keep our borders
secure and to keep the People of this great Nation safe, but it is used
as a ploy and bargaining chip by both parties to get what they want and allow potential harm to come our way.)
Why
are Billions of our tax dollars being wasted by giving out benefits to
people who have been dead for years and sometimes decades and also where
we say someone is deceased when they are alive and yet these People
have to suffer as a mistake is made over and over and over and these
People cannot get at their assets because they have been frozen or
seized? ( This has been happening for decades and
every time someone brings it up, we are assured that it has been
corrected and will not happen again, but as
we can see it is getting worse not better and we continue to spend
countless billions of dollars for no good reason that could be used
elsewhere or here is a good idea, to lower our debt!)
Why do we not address the problems of
hunger, homelessness, mental illness here at Home first and then help
other Nations out with their needs? When did we become a Nation of
helping others before We help our own?( They say
this is getting better here in our great Nation, but by what standards
are they using to measure? Lets be clear, it isn't getting better, it is
getting worse, more and families and people are homeless, hungry and
mental illness continues to rise at an alarming rate and all we do is
set aside a small amount fo money both on the federal and state level to
mask these issues but yet we give billions and billions to other
Nations without even a second thought.)
Why do we
give Hundreds of Millions of dollars in tax break to the oil companies
when they charge us the People for any disruption in oil, when their
refineries go down, etc.. when there oil companies make Billions a
quarter in profits? Other businesses must absorb these costs by
themselves.( We can thank Congress and our elected
officials for this, they do not feel the brunt of these costs as the
People of our Country do! Oil Companies get richer and richer while the
regular hard working person tries to do more and more with less and less
yet we keep giving millions and millions in tax breaks to these Oil
Companies and not care about the American People.)
Why do the lawmakers not ask us the
People what We want in regards to the Keystone pipeline and come clean
with all the data and information so we have an honest and clear picture
of all the pros and cons? ( This will never be
given an honest answer to, because both sides get way too much in
givebacks and political contributions form those who stand to make
billions off this Keystone pipeline.)
Why do we as a Nation
continue to allow US Companies to use loopholes to not pay their fair
share of taxes owed to the US Government? (Again
the American People suffer and these Businesses get richer and richer.
Here is another idea, close the loopholes that continue to allow these
companies to get away with not paying their fair share of taxes, if they
threaten to close down their operations in the USA, then also include
in the law that they cannot export their product here and see how quick
they change their minds.)
Why do the
Veterans of this great Country continue to have to wait for healthcare
or their appointments get pushed off for months and months and why do
they not have the best health care available immediately after they have
served and given their lives for the USA? (They
say health care is getting better for our Veterans but where is the
proof, data can be skewed and hearing reports and interviews with our
Veterans, nothing indicates that it is getting better for them.)
Why is it
alright for Candidates and Lawmakers to use misleading and deceptive
ads against others or against propositions to serve their own purpose?
This ads should have to be honest and truthful. (
Again, the States and the Federal Gov't need to step up and put into law
, a very clear and detailed law(s) that outline very concisely what can
and cannot be put into ads or propositions. When will we stop all the ill gotten mud slinging and deception that is being allowed?)
@cupofjoeinthed
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