Posted on 05/06/2014 5:10:03 PM PDT by MichCapCon
The Michigan Legislature is currently debating whether or not to send extra state money to Detroit. There have been three polls taken on this issue with fairly different results.
Lambert, Edwards & Associates/Denno found very high support, depending on how the money will be spent. I cannot find the exact language of how the question was asked, but this was in the press release:
Sixty-one percent of the 600 likely voters polled statewide said they backed Snyder’s proposal to offer the funds so that Detroit pension cuts wouldn’t exceed 34 percent. A quarter of those polled opposed the move, while nearly 14 percent were undecided. The same LE&A/Denno Research poll asked voters if they would support offering the state funds as part of a deal that would protect the DIA from having to sell any of its art collection. Slightly fewer voters backed that plan, with 53 percent favoring spending the money and 30 percent opposing it. Seventeen percent were undecided.
Marketing Research Group showed 51 percent support, 37 percent opposed by asking:
"Would you support or oppose the State of Michigan using $350 million dollars of tobacco settlement money over the next 20 years to help the City of Detroit meet its pension contract agreements and prevent the city from having to sell any of its Detroit Institute of Arts paintings and artwork collection?” The Mackinac Center commissioned a poll through Mitchell Research and found 44 percent support to 49 percent opposed. Here’s how the question was asked:
Governor Snyder has proposed, and the Legislature is considering, passing a $350 million partial bailout of Detroit — paid over 20 years — using state money. Do you support or oppose using state money to bail out the City of Detroit? We believe that to be the easiest and fairest way to ask the question. Tobacco settlement money is completely fungible as state dollars — that is, it can be used for anything. So make no mistake, the money is coming from the state budget.
But the big dispute is whether or not this money is a “bailout.” Well, here is the definition of the word: “An act of giving financial assistance to a failing business or economy to save it from collapse.”
These are the poll results. You decide which is most meaningful.
Negatroids!!! There is an old saying that you reap what you sow. Detroit has reaped it along with the chickens coming home to roost.
They can first start by all city employees taking a pay/benefits cut. Then reign in the unions.
No. And Hell No. Would be the worst thing that could happen to Detroit. Would simply make the pit and the reckoning WORSE for them. Seriously.
Sigh, I am sure that statement is somehow not PC, as are most facts these days. Sigh again.
Dispersed around the country?
Notice to people from Detroit: Texas is racist, everything here is poisonous, gun fights happen every day in every town (OK, you are used to that), we have city eating tornados, the food sucks, few of the women rate above a 6 (the “men” max out at 5), and we have no jobs. Wish I had never come here. OK?
To any Freeper or conservative, the above is clearly /sarc, but you knew that, right?
Let’s see, that’s the same tobacco settlement money that was supposed to be used to prevent smoking, anti-smoking campaigns, etc. So instead the money is wasted on Detroit to enable them to continue on their merry way.
Certainly NOT!
It is what the Democrats made of it. It is what the people of that city voted for, for decades. Let it rot.
Silly question. Everybody knows how we came to this. The place was looted. And everybody knows who did it. When Detroit and the nation can face that unflinching we'll have a chance. That certainly isn't now.
The State of Michigan and its citizens can do whatever they want with their $$ in regards to Detroit. That’s a Michigan problem, just like Chicago is Illinois’, etc., etc....
Just don’t dare go reaching into MY pocket...(even if I lived in the respective states I’d still say NO)
And those armadillos taste awful. My brother makes me eat them morning, noon, and night whenever I visit. Wouldn’t be so bad, but the tire marks are a bit distracting. (snicker)
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