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Ed Z. - Wednesday, October 28, 2009   Privatized Economic Stimulus Package Rate this idea:   Current Rating: 3.0 (205 votes cast) Start a non-profit (new jobs) to take in donations for localized deficit relief. Take any city in the state that is in debt and pay off that debt. By paying off a city’s debt the possibilities are endless. One example would be that the vendors of that city receive the long awaited payment and are able to pay their bills, possibly even bring people back to work and renew their credit and credibility. Now that’s stimulating. Another example would involve following those same payments up the ladder, City pays John, John pays Peter, Peter pays Bill and Joe, Bill and Joe pay their taxes etc. etc. Repeat the process over and over again. If the federal economic stimulus monies would have been applied to local governments for this reason, our economy would not be in this bad of shape. Our local city governments are a little easier to manage when it comes to special interests and cutting out pork. It's also easier at a local level to hold dishonest politicians responsible for wrong doing. You can not rebuild or rejuvenate an economic system from the top down. Think about it.

Mark - Monday, October 26, 2009   cost benefit analysis Rate this idea:   Current Rating: 2.9 (238 votes cast) Let's do a cost benefit analysis of every section in each department at the State. How many taxpayers use a specific State service managed by a particular section? What is its budget? What is the budget divided by the number of taxpayers using it? Let's establish a criteria for what is "being used effectively" by the taxpayers and what is "not being used effectively" by the tax payers.

mac wulff - Sunday, October 25, 2009   lotto 47 Rate this idea:   Current Rating: 3.1 (215 votes cast) i suggest that our classic lotto 47 be changed.whenever the total available fundsexceeds $5 million,the wednesday drawing could have 5 numbersdrawn for $1 million each. this could make a possible winner each week, a good reason to play lotto 47 and would help our michigan education program, revitalize our economy by helping up to 5 churches, charities, homr and auto purchases/payments,provide additional state/federal tax money, award our lotto agents. you may have other good reasons for michigan millionaries to spend some money in MICHIGAN. THANK YOU

Dave Moore - Sunday, October 25, 2009   Great Lakes Water Rate this idea:   Current Rating: 3.0 (239 votes cast) I've always heard "water will be the next great resource" and, as a result, Michigan will experience and economic renaissance. I'd like to offer another, contrarian, viewpoint. The Great Lakes, while beautiful and vast, are a curse to Michigan manufacturing. We're surrounded by the Great Moat, and manufacturing is at (another) disadvantage because of our distance from the country's main shipping lanes. Why else would manufacturing be almost non-existent north of I-96? Well, here's the solution: UPS, Fedex and the postal system are the great equalizers. They each distribute by zone, and these zones ignore the Great Moat. Instead of wasting millions upon millions of dollars chasing the movie industry, why not target businesses with a distribution model that can survive in Michigan? These businesses are easy to identify and find, and they are sustainable. I love the Great Lakes, but they have no economic value if you can't make a living here.

Dave Moore - Sunday, October 25, 2009   Reducing Government Rate this idea:   Current Rating: 3.0 (217 votes cast) We know we have been losing population in Michigan every year at least since the mid-1970s. Like any business that has been losing clients on a sustained basis, cuts should be required to reflect these losses. One nagging question is why do we have so many township governments? These added governmental layers appear completely redundant. Jacksonville, FL, the largest county in the country, manages very well without these township governments. They have to go.