According to Forbes, the #1 worst area for jobs is Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, Michigan (out of 389 areas). The Detroit News reported this past weekend that Michigan’s unemployment rate remains second-highest in the nation and the Detroit-Warren-Livonia region had the highest unemployment rate at 13.9 percent among the six metropolitan areas the Bureau of Labor Statistics cited. Now make note that the city of Warren, Michigan, is smack in the middle of Michigan’s 12th Congressional district.
According to common sense, one definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results each time.
Insanity must be the explanation for why Sander Levin, the latest Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, has been the representative of Michigan’s 12th district for the last 28 years. For only insanity can explain why someone who has put his district to the top of the loser’s charts by voting in lockstep with the Democratic party has remained in office. He’s been Pelosi’s loyal lapdog for the current administration; a guaranteed and delivered vote for bailouts that sent our hard-earned tax money to overseas banks via AIG and gave our auto companies to corrupt union leadership who are getting rich pocketing the spoils.
Sander Levin voted to destroy the health care system in favor of a progressive, government-knows-best ideology that includes making you buy something whether you want to buy it or not.
Sander Levin voted to destroy American manufacturing, sounding the death knell for Michigan, the heart of the Rust Belt, through so-called “cap & trade” that will raise the price of everything from fuel to food.
Then he scuttled out of D.C. with all his Democrat buddies without doing anything to stop the tax hikes scheduled to take effect on January 1st for everyone; do you realize that the lowest income taxpayers will see a 50% increase in their federal income tax rate on their first $8,000 of income? A 50% INCREASE on their first $8,000 of income. And let’s not forget the impact to middle-class business owners who won’t be expanding their businesses (creating jobs) because they’ll have to instead send that money to Washington in the form of higher taxes once they reach the arbitrary and magic number that the Democrats now define as being “rich”. And “greedy”. And “racist”. (Unless, of course, you’re a Democrat politician or one of their lobbying buddies.)
And of course there’s the upcoming estate tax, where money already taxed when earned will be taxed again (sometimes a third time) before it can be given to one’s heirs.
Oh, let’s not forget the looming taxes on unearned income; another mean bite into the fixed income of responsible seniors who worked and saved for a lifetime in order to remain independent by living off the income from their investments. And there’s another sneaky bite from their income (and the income of everyone else) coming if the Democrats have their way: increased costs to even pay the bills because of fees that will be levied on every single financial transaction; fees that will, of course, be passed onto you, the consumer.
I could go on but I’m sure you get the point. Every bit of badness cooked up by Congress, every blow to freedom, has been wholeheartedly endorsed by progressive liberal Sander Levin.
Now, despite all of this, Sander Levin apparently feels entitled to his seat in the House of Representatives since he’s unwilling to come face-to-face with his constituents to campaign for their vote or to take the time to debate his challenger during this election, though the polls show this has now become a real race (strangely gone entirely ignored by both the media and the GOP; which means one helluva headline come November 3rd). Instead he’s spending his time campaigning for his colleagues in New York, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania and gives only lip service and the standard Democrat’s response to questions about today’s problems. Seems he’s hoping no one will remember that he was part of those horrible Congresses who created all the problems in the first place.
What has Sander Levin done by being a guaranteed vote for progressive liberalism? Ask your neighbor who has a house in foreclosure while Sander Levin sells his house in Maryland for almost a million dollars. Ask your friend whose company is going out of business. Ask the Michigan children who are moving out of state because that’s the only place they can find a job. Then ask yourself: Can you afford any more of this kind of representation in Washington?
I can’t.
It’s time to shake up Michigan the way Massachusetts was shaken up last January. It’s time to help support the efforts of conservative candidate, small business owner and family man, Don Volaric, to represent Michigan’s 12th district in the House of Representatives.
It’s time to drive one important nail in the coffin of progressive liberalism.