The Loudest Cricket

I don’t know if Bob Kruse is good at his job, but this is the problem with government-controlled businesses – executives leave to get away from the salary cap imposed by the car czar.  He’s going back to the private sector where his pay will be based on performance, not arbitrarily determined by Washington bureaucrat.

One of the many complaints I had about Bush’s handling of the war on terror involved his approach to Iran, which was to mostly ignore the Islamic Republic.  The Freep thinks Obama should support the moderates in Iran in order to replace the mullah-led autocracy with a more liberal democracy.  Moderates are the ones that [...]

I’d rather that the state shut down than have lawmakers raise taxes in order to balance the budget.  They know what they have to do – get expenses in line with revenue.  Just like people and businesses have to do with their own budgets.  More cuts are needed and not just at the state level.  [...]

The Michigan DNR does a poor job of controlling the deer population which has resulted in high traffic incidents.  But accidents aren’t the only problem.  Deer overpopulation, just like with human overpopulation, leads to mass starvation and rampant spreading of diseases – which we’ve been seeing for the last decade.  The animals also damage crops [...]

Detroit is getting $25 million to prop up its failing infrastructure, dole out loans to new businesses, and bailout homeowners facing foreclosure.  This won’t help but will only push the problem further down the road.  Not far enough for Bing to turn things around in the city.  It would be better to let the city [...]

Idea number five in The Detroit News’ series on reforming Michigan – change the way public universities are funded.  The current system unfairly distributes the funds.  For example, Saginaw Valley State University gets about $3,500 per student while the University of Michigan receives over $13,000.  They propose to level the field by equalizing the per-pupil [...]

The Freep does its duty as a tool of the Democratic party by rationalizing Obama’s decision to indefinitely incarcerated suspected terrorists.  Under Bush, this would have been used as proof that Republicans are evil.  But now that a Obama is in charge, it’s okay because he’s a Democrat.  And the Freep will go back to [...]

While the rest of the economy continues to shrink, the one sector that has actually added jobs is, of course, the federal government!  25,000 new employees since December 2008.  I guess they’re part of those millions of “saved or created” jobs Obama keeps talking about.

Unions have pushed businesses, cities, states, and schools to the brink of bankruptcy.  Sometimes over the brink.  Color me unimpressed by some of the concessions in the latest UAW contracts.  At Ford, the latest UAW contract cut the average wage to $55 an hour.  Figuring a 2000 hour work-year (hah!), that’s a salary of $110,000 [...]

As I’ve said before, I cringe every time Robert Bobb makes the news.  He’s doing a great job tracking down waste and corruption in the DPS and his latest find is extremely cringe-worthy.  Seems the school system overpaid for some real estate, with a string of purchasers inflating the price before the DPS got to [...]