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KFarrell - Sunday, October 04, 2009

solar panels

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Current Rating: 3.0 (283 votes cast)

Utilize green spaces for solar panels helping to generate power to surrounding areas at minimal cost

KJ. Farrell - Sunday, October 04, 2009

Market Michigan and Support Our People

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1.) Provide incentives for producers of products made in Michigan to be highlighted in all our markets; 2.) Penalize auto, homeowner and health insurances for raising rates. 3.) Automatic monetary sanction penalties of all auto, homeowner and health insurances who insure our Michigan people, who do not honor their contracts and cause economic harm and violate good faith practices by not fulfilling the terms of their contracts to protect consumers from random acts of danger and imperilment and economic harm. 4.) SEVERELY sanction monetary penalties against insurance companies who fight those injured by drunk drivers. They are violating the get tough laws and causing great economic and personal burden to the peoples of this state. 5.) Use the sanction penalties against insurance companies who have harmed the hundreds of thousands of people of this state to balance the budget in support of our people of Michigan.

Walter Gale - Friday, October 02, 2009

Common Sense Ideas

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A Common Sense List of Changes that will never get any consideration: 1. Reduce the number of elected government employees by 20%. 2. Reduce the base pay by 20%. 3. Pay half as a salary and half as a per day worked fee. 4. Provide a single health care system for all government employee and elected officials. 5. Pensions: Change to 401K 6. Cut staff and staff allowance by 20 %. 7. Combine local governments by geography and population. 8. Allow all state and local governments to spend only as much money as they collect. 9. Double the number of years for an elected term. 10. Limit the amount of money that can be spent on an election campaign.

Comments

#1 Posted By: Renee Kelley on Sunday, October 04, 2009
I am on the same page as Walter Gale. The politicians use our tax money to pay ALL their bills. Since we, the people, are their bosses and can no longer afford their luxuries, I feel we need to hold them accountable. We have to drive ourselves to work, pay for maintenance on our vehicles, and insurance. I feel the public officials should have to do the same. Let them deduct it from their taxes as business expenses if they must. That way they are putting the money up front as we do and have to wait for their refund. I also agree they should only get paid for the time they work as well as making politicians pay for part of their health insurance. Pensions, what is that? They can do the 401K just like to common folk. Hopefully this may weed out the career politicians that do not care and bring in only the ones that truly want to make a difference. There is no reason to go after the public's safety by threatening to cut police/fire and schools. Shame on all of you that take this route. Remember YOU work for US.

#2 Posted By: Gail Garvey-Malone on Monday, October 05, 2009
I too agree with Walter Gale on all of the above except for one more thing, once the politicians are out of office, their medical insurance should be cut off too. General Motors has cut off all of the retired people that worked for 40 years + for them, so should we the people. If everyone in the government trying to balance our budget takes a paycut, and pays a percentage of medical insurance, we wouldn't have a budget problem now would we.

Joe Clark - Friday, October 02, 2009

Free money from free water

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TAX BOTTLED WATER! People are generally lazy and drink bottled water because of the ‘convenience’ of it, should not they pay for such convenience? People pay more for bottled water than they do for gas, water that is nearly free from the tap. If they have so much extra money why not pay extra for the water. A deposit would just be more hauling around of empty bottles, why not a tax to get people to not buy bottles to begin with? 20 cents a bottle with 50% going to clean up our water resources (sewer systems, storm drains, water treatment plants, past pollution, and invasive species) would generate income for the state, create jobs, get people to spend less on something they don’t need, save space in our landfills, and help our Great Lakes. How could we do better?

Joe Clark - Friday, October 02, 2009

Organ Donation for all

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Why don�t we turn Michigan into an assumed organ donation state? There are people for organ donation and people against it, but the vast majority doesn�t care one way or the other. With that in mind why don�t we change the law so that everyone is an organ donor unless they option out. The people who are strongly against it can take their organs to the afterlife, the people who are for it can donate easily, and those that don�t care one way or the other can give the gift of life without any effort. This would shorten the wait for those who need transplants and save both the state and insurance companies millions of dollars. The payoff in both dollars and human life would be astronomical, less hospital time for kidney dialysis, liver problems, and bone marrow complications. Not to mention the added productivity of the newly healthy people and the health care workers who can help others. This system is in place in some European countries with fantastic results.