We have a winner!
Faced with a one-billion dollar deficit, poor education results, and a worsening state economy, the state House of Representatives in Michigan has proposed to invest in education by ... wait for it ... buying an iPod or other MP3 player for every student in the system! As the headline for the editorial in the Detroit News read: An iPod for every kid? Are they !#$!ing idiots?
We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michigan.
No cost estimate was attached to their hare-brained idea to "invest" in education. Details, we are promised, will follow.
The Democrats, led by their increasingly erratic speaker Andy Dillon of Redford Township, also pledge $100 million to make better downtowns.
Their plan goes beyond cluelessness. Democrats are either entirely indifferent to the idea that extreme hard times demand extreme belt tightening, or they are bone stupid. We lean toward the latter.
Impressed with their commitment to sound stewardship of public resources, Public Secrets would like to award the Democratic caucus of the Michigan House of Representatives the coveted General Russell Honore Commemorative Stuck On Stupid Award for April, 2007.
Congratulations, folks. You earned it. And I'm sure the voters of Michigan will remember this at election time, too.
(hat tips: Michael Barone and Captain Ed)
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