Michigan needs a new constitution
Michigan was once one of the better-run states in the union. No, it was never perfect. You had your share of petty crooks and poseurs in Lansing; drinkers, hound dogs, and cheerful idiots.
Yet stuff got done. Roads got fixed, higher education was largely affordable for even blue-collar families, and there was a sense that politics and government were about more than merely getting to the next rung of the ladder.
Today, that's not the case. You can see it throughout the decay infecting politics and government throughout the state; you can see it in the decaying infrastructure, the lousy roads, and pitted bridges.
You can see it, perhaps most of all, in the kind of thing I wrote about last week; term-limited lawmakers, knowing they won't be around to reap the consequences, jury-rigging things to make sure not that problems are solved, but that the reckoning is kicked down the line a few years till they are out of office. That's what they did in November 2015 with the roads: Facing overwhelming public hostility over their failure to deal with the roads, our lawmakers passed a "fix" which is totally phony and doesn't raise nearly enough money.
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