Michigan Proposals...can you believe this crap passed?

Question

Three out of five of the Michigan proposals were voted in. The two that were not voted in was the hunting of mourning dove proposals and the school funding proposals...I cant believe ANY of these initiatives passed! Espically the ban on affrimative action. It costs money to change law...what were the tax payers thinking?

Answer 1

In respect to the ban on affirmative action, many leaders in the minority community support this. They believe it hurts schools and businesses as they are forced have to meet quotas of minorites in their employment, not getting the best candidates based on merit.

So if you have to have 10 spots open and you need 8 minorities, you hire the people based on the quota's you have to meet, not choosing the best who applied. You are just filling spots. You can't hire a white man because you need one more woman or mexican person to comply with the law or face fines. Or you don't hire a black woman with an MBA because you have your quota of blacks, so you hire a white woman with an associates degree. Discrimination is discrimination and it works both ways.

As for the school funding initiative, where is the funding going to come from? The state would of had to fund minimum requirements of 565 million per year. With this state losing so many jobs and the lottery obviously not covering education funding, what are they going to get the money to fund the shortfall? You can't just print money! So will there be an increase in taxes for gas, cigarettes, sales, businesses, or property in the future? Increase DMV fees, tags, start toll roads,
whatever they can?

Michigan is at 7.1% unemployment whereas the nation is at 4.4%. We citizens cannot afford to spend more to fund a mis-managed government.

Answer 2

/shrug. They're stupid. Just like all the school tax issues that passed so we can pay more towards taxes to educate the illegal's children who's parents don't pay taxes to begin with.

Yippee.

Answer 3

They weren't.