Something is rotten in the state of Michigan.
One city neglected to inform its residents that its water supply was laced with cancerous chemicals. Another dissolved its public school district and replaced it with a charter school system, only to witness the for-profit management company it hired flee the scene after determining it couldn’t turn a profit. Numerous cities and school districts in the state are now run by single, state-appointed technocrats, as permitted under an emergency financial manager law pushed through by Rick Snyder, Michigan’s austerity-promoting governor. This legislation not only strips residents of their local voting rights, but gives Snyder’s appointee the power to do just about anything, including dissolving the city itself -- all (no matter how disastrous) in the name of “fiscal responsibility.”
You can read the rest @
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176008/
Make no mistake - similar measures soon will be coming to a city, state, and or country near you.
Just as 9/11 was used as a pretext to take away many of our freedoms, federal/state/local bankruptcies will be used to privatize our remaining publicly owned assets and to impose crippling austerity measures upon most or all of us.
Unless you are a member of the 0.01% or one of the living dead (a.k.a. corporations), the party is over.
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