The answer should be NO. They need to get off their butts and raise private money.
Sell them. Plenty of people would like to own a lighthouse as a personal home.
Levin and Stabenow should be arrested for treason.
U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow ....how much are they donating?....... each?
I imagine that the patriotic taxpayers of Michigan wouldn’t mind a tax increase to get this done. The rest of us are busy with the lowlife “bailout.”
ask why it’s got to cost the govt $20 million dollars to SELL defunct lighthouses to private individuals?
Maybe we ought to keep them and put windmills on top, that might be worth our tax dollars
Michigan’s senators want to create a federal program to help pay for the preservation of historic lighthouses.
Let’s see, Michagan has no jobs for their citizens, their capital is a shithole all but taken over by the Islamists and they want Federal money for lighthouses????
No wonder the American people rate Congress in the low teens............
That means $60 million over three years, not $20 million. They can punt.
Obambi’s Detroit rally was just on FOX, he was talking about how Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow “fight for you.” Ah huh
The lighthouses will be useful as Muslim minurets when Detroitistan expands.
Maybe Stabenow’s husband could donate some of the money he has sit aside for hookers.
PRIVATE investments should do that, NOT THE GOVERNMENT!
We have an historical organization that does exactly that. Not one dime comes from the government so why should they be ‘special’?
Why now? Because if Obama gets elected the money is given, and who knows WHERE it will really go.
Pork is THE menu for the Obama Whitehouse.
His ‘presidential seal’
His ‘greek temple’
Like Henry VIII he’ll really knows how to throw a party.
More Democrats with their hand out...palm up...Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme. Typical Leftist BS. These lighthouses aren't aids to navigation anymore...return the sites to nature. Gimme, Gimme, my Butt!!!
Whose brother-in-law or cousin or nephew or neice or relative is in line for the maintenance contracts if the money is granted? Probably closer to "home" than we think.
calling Sarah Palin....
Michigan’s lighthouses are a lovely part of the state’s history and I’d like to see them preserved. Tourism is an important industry in Michigan, and lighthouses are part of it. I’d applaud private efforts to raise funds for their preservation. On the other hand, if Michigan taxpayers want to tax themselves to pay for it, they’re welcome to do that too. While I grew up in Michigan and am very fond of it, I see no reason I should pay to fix up its lighthouses when I live in Pennsylvania.