Tuesday, November 4, 2008

West Michigan Policy Nightmare

They're Baack!

The West Michigan business elite who attended the Regional Policy Conference in September restated their goals at a meeting of 600 at the Economic Club:

Right to work
Cut business taxes
Less state spending
Encourage preventative health care

The lead speaker was Jim Dunlop, head of Huntington Bank West Michigan. The reason I bring this up is that Huntington just accepted $1.4 billion from the Federal bank bailout fund (a/k/a/ TARP). So this schmuck Dunlop, whose crappy bank just took $1.4 billion of our money thinks taxes should be lower, and government spending should be cut. Oh, and let's finish off the Unions and screw up health care too.

If this asshole wants less government spending, how about his bank gives back the $1.4 billion they needed to bail out their lousy business decisions.

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