The Tea Party is UnAmerican: A City budget deficit does not cause an emergency to the public health, welfare and safety

The Tea Party is UnAmerican: A City budget deficit does not cause an emergency to the public health, welfare and safety 2011

by Shields Green (Charles Brown)

The Michigan Dictator bill rationalizes imposing a dictator on cities and towns based on an alleged emergency to the public health , welfare and safety due to a budget deficit. However, a municipal budget deficit does not remove critical city services from the People, the citizens , the Electors. The deficit or fiscal stress causes a threat to the revenue streams that Wall Street sucks like blood as a vampire from the working class' wealth, but not to the well being of the great mass of the People. A moratorium on payments to Wall Street on municipal bonds would go a long way toward keeping full pay , benefits and pensions to city workers and retirees. Realistically, it is these city workers who keep the PUBLIC HEALTH , WELFARE AND SAFETY, NOT WALL STREET BANKERS AND HEDGE FUNDS. These government jobs are jobs. Real jobs. When we say we need jobs, jobs, jobs, to cut government jobs is an insane as cutting taxes on the rich and giant corporations , where the money is , to cut the deficit.

A moratorium or substantial forgiveness ( a Jubilee) on mortgage foreclosures and payments would keep tens of millions of dollars in the hands of the working class in the Detroit Metropolitan area, Detroit, Macomb, Oakland and Monroe..

It is to keep the People's money flowing to Wall Street and the Big Banks that the State of Michigan, the Governor , who is the real Dictator in the Dictator law, tells the Big Lie that he must impose himself as a tyrant on the City , through his agents the State Treasurer and an socalled Emergency Manager ( There is no emergency to the pubilc, but to the monied classes looting us) It must tell this Big Lie to justify the UnAmerican act of stealing a City population's fundamental democratic privileges to choose on its own the officials to control the City's wealth, assets, wages, benefits and pensions, all that is valuable to the People's municipal corporation. The State is training a corps of financial gestapo, all imbued with the money drunk philosophy of business accounting, Wallstreet technical minions to shift wealth from the working masses and their local government to the finance capital and Big Business.

This was the purpose of taking over the DPS when there was billion dollar bond sale years ago. This was the purpose in imposing the Dictator on DPS more recently: to take the People's money and give it to private enterprises, and crony capitalists. The DPS dictatorship is a pilot program, a test of the reaction of the People of Detroit as to how they will react to a dictatorial seizure of the City government. There have bee insufficient mass protests against the DPS dictatorship to deter a dictatorship over Detroit. So, the Powers-that-be are moving quickly to seize Detroit.

Only a protracted mass movement from the Bottom up of militant protest, state initiative and referendum petitions and votes, recall petitions and votes, of the Governor in the first place, and 2012 election votes with a tremendous increase in voter turnout , in Detroit in the first place, will stop the fascist, unAmerican attack from the tea-Republicans and their Wall street and Big Business masters.

See you at the protests at the Capitol and in Wall Street's face. All Power to We, the People ! We are one. Speak Power in the Streets ! Carry on ! Vote Democratic.

White supremacy surges in Michigan state government By Shields Green

Republican Governor Rick Snyder, State Treasurer Andy Dillon and the Republican legislators are ratcheting up for a white supremacist* takeover of Detroit from its people and elected officials as has already been done with the Detroit Public Schools.

They are aggravating the law, empowering an emergency financial manager to act as an un-elected dictator, seizing all the powers of the mayor and city council, who are chosen by the People of Detroit, attack city workers� wages and benefits and take control of all the city�s assets. We can expect that they will dispose of the assets to further enrich suburban and out-state rich people.

The new dictatorial, un-American law is going through the legislature lickity split headed for the governor to sign. They are preparing to steal the vote of the Detroit Black majority.

It is not a surprise that this happens as we celebrate for Black History Month, our first, all-Black Detroit City Council.

This state action is the culmination of many years of out-state takeovers of majority Black Detroit by majority white populations out-state. The DPS takeovers by Governors John Engler and Jennifer Granholm were preceded by the abolition of Recorders� Court, the abolition of city residency requirements for city workers, snatching of Cobo Hall, and federal court takeover of the water department. The majority of white Michiganders also passed a Constitutional Amendment outlawing affirmative action.

The latest colonialist, white supremacist action is done under the phony claim that Detroit is fiscally irresponsible.

This comes from a state that is more than a billion dollars into fiscal irresponsibility; a state that used a huge swathe of federal stimulus money to cover-up its own �fiscal irresponsibility,� all the while with its White Supremacist Tea Partiers denouncing President Obama, who is Black, for providing said stimulus money.

Can you belieive it? In other words, out of one side of the Republicans� mouth, they won the mid-term election by attacking President Obama and on the other side of their mouths, instead of providing some of the money for impoverished Detroit. They use the money from Obama to hide their own bankruptcy and then turnaround and move to steal Detroit�s public wealth to enrich their sectors.

The state has reneged on a deal between Engler and former mayor Dennis Archer to pay Detroit more than $200 million (which would balance Detroit�s deficit) while restricting Detroit from raising its income taxes. Thus, the state is forcing the city into an alleged �fiscal irresponsibility� as a shell game to seize the city�s wealth and power.

Both Michigan and Detroit are in difficult fiscal straits, not because of the failings of government, but the failings of private business, finance and industry which have caused Michigan to fall into a one-state depression and Detroit into a 30-year depression.

The People United will not be defeated. Fight the Powers that be!

*We use �white supremacist� rather than �racist� because the white supremacists have reversed the meaning of the venerable sixties rhetorical term �racist� in the public dialogue to use it mainly to slander Black people as �racist� or �reverse racist.�

Hopefully , �white supremacist� will be more difficult to twist.