Duurrrrr. . . . I r frum Mitchigen.

Well, I personally do not talk or type that way but our state's future generations could. Thankfully, it would appear as though not everyone in our state government is completely clueless.
After reading the first article about the proposed 1.75+ billion dollar tax cuts, I had to wonder how on earth Mr. Mike Bishop came to choose the areas to receive these massive cuts. I finally decided on two possibilities: 1. He has a giant dartboard with all of our state's programs on it and either has really good aim, or very poor aim mixed with bad luck. -OR- 2. He has no idea what the repercussions of cuts like this would be, or doesn't care.
Mr. Bishop should have a nice long chat with Al Widner, who based on his article , has the correct perspective when it comes to the importance of education. It's almost scary to me, to think that there are people supposedly running this state (into the ground)like Mr. Bishop.
I understand that our state is in need of a new budget. However, trying to take the money from important areas would do more damage than good. As it would seem, anyone with 5 minutes of time and a brain between their ears should be able to put together the idea that taking 1 billion dollars from our schools = BAD. Also, and maybe even more scary to me, is the precedent allowing a cut like this would set. "Well Mr. Republican, you are right we did take a bunch of money from them once and they survived, I'm sure they can handle it again."
I think the best idea, would be to either increase taxes such as sales tax, income tax, or to go through the entire budget with a fine toothed comb and see where all of our money is going. I think the money is there, we just need to find it. I happen to know where some is going, check it out here.