What’s the Matter with Michigan?!

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Unleash Prosperity Hotline
Issue #963
02/26/2024
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1) What’s the Matter With Michigan?!
For the first time since 1944, a state has repealed its right to work law.

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Michigan is once again a “closed shop,” meaning that many blue-collar workers will be forced to join a union, whether they want to or not.

Is Governor Whitmer intentionally TRYING to lose jobs in Michigan? For decades Michigan was the poster child for the Rust Belt and union power run amok. Closed factories turned Flint and Detroit into virtual ghost towns with extreme poverty and where drug dealers were the richest guys in town.

Auto factories relocated out of the forced union states and the moving vans delivered the jobs to South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, and Tennessee. Why? Because these were states with pro-business policies that didn’t cede control to corrupt union brass. Over the last three decades, Right to Work states created double the number of jobs as did forced-union states.

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Michigan revived its economy in 2012 with a Right to Work law. Now they’ve gone backward. This is a giant setback for the State of Michigan and the tens of thousands of workers who have lost the freedom to choose.

By the way, Whitmer is seen as a top alternative presidential candidate for the Democrats if, as we fear, Democrats throw Biden off the side of the bus.

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2) The Biden-AARP-Health Insurance Industry Axis of Evil
This weekend at the CPAC conference one of your Hotline editors, Steve Moore, called AARP an “evil organization” for its nefarious relationships with the Biden administration and one of the country’s largest health insurance conglomerates, UnitedHealth.

The Biden campaign lashed out in a social media blast asserting the old chestnut that Repubs want to cut Social Security and Medicare:

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Here’s a reality check: AARP doesn’t really represent the interests of seniors anymore – if it ever did. AARP is a functionary of one of the nation’s largest health insurer behemoths – United Health.

AARP now collects $1 BILLION a year (not $1 million) in royalties from UnitedHealth – a gargantuan insurer with a $500 billion market cap.

This sweetheart arrangement with UnitedHealth explains why AARP sold seniors down the river by supporting ObamaCare despite calls from their own members running 14-to-1 against it.

UnitedHealth and AARP also supported the Biden Inflation Acceleration Act, which imposed price controls on drug companies in a way that is not lowering drug prices but is slowing R&D funding for new drugs to combat Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, and cancer. The last time we checked seniors are the strongest advocates for winning the race for the cure.

AARP signed on to this bill even though it raided over $250 billion from Medicare drug spending to pay for supersized Obamacare subsidies and green energy giveaways.

AARP has opposed many of the most modest debt reduction plans to save America’s future while supporting higher taxes on our kids and grandkids.

If you’re a member of AARP, maybe you should reconsider. We urge our readers to check out AMAC or 60+, which are organizations that truly support the interests of older Americans.
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3) University Professors Are the Largest Supporters of Biden
No surprise here. It's the elites vs. regular people.

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4) In New York More Money for Government Schools = More Mediocrity
Progressives always tell us public education is underfunded and that if we only spend more we would get better results. When is that going to happen?

A case in point: the New York state legislature is now debating tax hikes to pay for calls to spend more on education. The New York State United Teachers Union has launched a “Fund Our Public Schools” campaign demanding that the 2024–25 state budget include $419 million dollars to correct “underfunding.”

The unions inhabit an alternate universe. New York’s K-12 spending tops that of all states and the District of Columbia—fully 85 percent above the national average. The education spending gap between the Empire State and the rest of the country has more than tripled over the past 20 years.

Teacher salaries in New York are the highest in the country. They’ve increased by 73% over the last 20 years and now AVERAGE over $90,000 a year.

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What are parents getting for their tax dollars? How’s this for a scandal? No one really knows. When standardized test results were finally released last December, state officials had lowered the definition of “proficiency” thus making it impossible to know how district outcomes have changed.

In addition, New York’s state allows so many students to opt out of testing that a former analyst with the New York City Department of Education, says the state’s tests are “virtually useless” as a gauge of student performance.

So in the state with the highest public school expenditures in the country, there are no cost controls, little transparency, and few ways to know how kids are doing. That's called a cover-up.

To paraphrase Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men: “You want the truth. You can’t handle the truth.”

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5) If Not for Double Standards, Democrats Would Have No Standards at All
We are in no way apologists for the disgraced liar George Santos, but here’s some food for thought from CTUP board member John Childs:

Santos was expelled essentially for lying on his resume. He made false claims about his academic achievements (plagiarized Biden?) and his work experience, a phantom job at Goldman Sachs.

Elizabeth Warren lied on her resume claiming Native American ancestry. This opened a lot more doors than a fictitious tour at Goldman Sachs. But she’s still in the Senate.

Adam Schiff was outed lying frequently about important matters of state. He never apologized, never explained, and was never expelled.

Eric Swalwell succumbed to yellow fever and slept with an admittedly irresistible Chinese spy. Yet Nancy Pelosi didn’t even kick him off the House Intelligence Committee, let alone call for his expulsion.

Senator Menendez has been credibly accused of assisting a constituent and foreign government in exchange for large sums of money and, hedging the dollar’s demise, some gold bars. Yet so far nary a word about removal except from Senator Fetterman, the emerging court jester of the Democratic Party.

We would add to the hypocrisy train that Joe Biden illegally stored confidential/classified national security documents in his garage and yet the Democrats are shouting "Four More Years."

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6) R.I.P.

ERRATUM: We were deluged with comments about our Friday Hotline from eagle-eyed readers. We wrongly referred to Jane Byrne as "the Chicago mayor who got tossed out of office for failing to shovel the snow,” when in fact it was Michael Bilandic's snow removal failure that got him tossed, and Jane Byrne was his successor. Thanks to all for correcting us.

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