The Democrats in Michigan seem to have lost, well, their sanity. Their latest plan? An iPod for every kid.
We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michigan.
No cost estimate was attached to their hare-brained idea to “invest” in education. Details, we are promised, will follow.
The Democrats, led by their increasingly erratic speaker Andy Dillon of Redford Township, also pledge $100 million to make better downtowns.
Their plan goes beyond cluelessness. Democrats are either entirely indifferent to the idea that extreme hard times demand extreme belt tightening, or they are bone stupid. We lean toward the latter.
Let me get this right: the Democrats in Michigan want to improve education by… buying every kid an iPod?
As Betsy comments: “I’m sure that all the kids in Michigan getting the iPod will be sure to spend all their time listening to educational lectures. They’d never think of using for music, would they?”
Of course not.
Utter idiocy. How can responsible citizens actually vote for these people? I am not opposed to the Democratic Party in general, but if I were living in Michigan I would do everything in my power to make sure that these Democrats would never return to a position of power.
Unless, of course, they would promise to buy me an iPod, in which case I would be willing to change my opinion and publish a couple of posts endorsing the Dems’ latest scheme.
To Michigan’s Democrats: send me an e-mail, promise to buy me an iPod and I will sell outunderstand the wisdom of your plan.
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