Engler's budget drains surplus (**Read for Stupid Dem Quote**)

Detroit Free Press ^ | Feb 8,2002 | CHRIS CHRISTOFF AND WENDY WENDLAND-BOWYER

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LANSING -- With a patch here and a plug there, Gov. John Engler presented a 2002-03 state budget Thursday that would lessen the pain of a $969-million deficit by tapping $660 million from reserve funds.

Universities and community colleges: No funding cuts.

Twenty school-based health-care centers: Funding restored.

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Sen. Alma Wheeler Smith, D-Salem Township, handed
out mock $2 bills with Engler's face in the middle.
She said the fake bills represent a budget that's "phony as a $2 bill."

Hmmmmm, do you think she meant "as phony as a three dollar bill?"

(NOTE:My idea for posting this came from the WSJ's best of the web, so I cannot take credit. I just wanted to share it with FR.)

(NOTE:Though Sen. Alma Wheeler Smith may be a member of a FR protected religion, I am not bashing her due to her choice of religion. ;-) )

[liliana]

when gov. and mrs engler were about to become the parents of triplet girls right around election time,some demwit claimed it was a re-election ploy.

[wjcsux]

Gov. Engler is trying to balance the state's budget with what he has to work with. The DumboRATs would raise taxes.

[No Truce With Kings]

Yet another reason to call it the Dim-o-crat party.

[michigander]

It's too bad that the Michigan legislature decided to piss away $110,000,000 of the state surplus fund on this: Laptops sought for Michigan teachers.

I'll wager Ms. Alma Wheeler (phony as a $2 bill) Smith voted aye on this.
Face it, they basically traded the Merit Award Trust Fund for laptop computers for the 5th. highest paid teachers in the country (average $48,207, 1998-1999).
Now they (should) have to live with it.

Willie Green was absoluely correct in reply #37.

This is just a $110 million boondoggle by Governor Engler, using public funds to try to buy support for the Bush Campaign.