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Letters: Billions more for business, more sacrifice for kids - Detroit Free Press

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He may have branded himself as an innovative state CEO rather than the traditional governor, but Rick Snyder certainly settled in well to the duplicitous nature of GOP politics and policy with Thursday's budget announcement.

For a candidate who ran on a platform of shared sacrifice, it's tough to see what morsel of food was taken off the plate of big business. If anything, corporations and special interests got Snyder's nod to go ahead and grab seconds -- right off the plates of children and retirees.

This $1.8-billion tax cut will be funded, in large part, by a $470 per-pupil cut.

Still, Snyder had the gall to tell reporters: "We are going to build a great state for our children and their future."

What future? As Walmart greeters or burger flippers?

Instead of mortgaging the future for Michigan's children, Snyder and the Legislature need to focus on real reform that makes it easier for small businesses to make jobs.

Given the demands of a 21st Century economy, our students are already competing on a global scale. Education is too important to cut, especially when the result lines the pockets of special interests.

Ben Harwood, U.S. government and politics teacher

Seaholm High School, Birmingham

Seniors just getting by

Taxing people's pensions is a great idea if they are receiving $5,000 or more a month. Most people on pensions can't even afford the prescriptions they need filled anymore, plus they have to sit with sweaters on in the winter because they can't afford their gas bills.

Get rid of some of the overpaid, do-nothing politicians, and quit spending money on frivolous projects.

Jim Williams

Rochester Hills

Time to cinch our belts

It's time to stop all the whining and finally get serious about saving our beautiful state. I am sick and tired of our lawmakers and citizens crying foul every time a change affects their own little world or project.

Thinking people understand our state is in dire straits. Let us cinch in our belts and meet the challenge head-on. The sooner we get Michigan back on track, the sooner cuts can be re-evaluated.

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Let us show the nation what we're made of: Courage to make the tough choices!

Charlotte Detamore

East Grand Rapids

GOP sides with the rich

Once again, the Republicans show whom they stand with -- millionaires and corporations. Let's not raise taxes on millionaires; let's tax retirees.

Richard Greer

Allen Park

The secret plan revealed

Rick Snyder's elect-a-nerd campaign propaganda crowed that he had an economic recovery plan so sophisticated that mere politicians couldn't understand it.

The plan: Cut business taxes by $1.8 billion and increase personal income taxes by $1.7 billion. Business gets a free ride, subsidized by every taxpayer and every noncommercial institution in the state.

Too sophisticated for mere politicians? Or for mere voters?

So here we go again: Government welfare for Big Money; market discipline for wage earners.

Richard G. Baer

Lathrup Village

A slap in voters' faces

This is what we all waited to hear, a tax hike on Michigan's most vulnerable citizens. The one thing we do as senior citizens is vote, and this will go down in history as the biggest slap in voters' faces in history.

Our new governor will find that governing is not like campaigning and that running a state is nothing like running a private business where people do as they are told. This will not stand.

Leroy Bray

Plymouth

Most seniors aren't rich

What is Gov. Snyder thinking? Does he think all seniors are rich? We have already been hit with higher gas prices, higher utility costs, food and clothing increases. We have not had an increase in Social Security for two years. We worked hard all our lives so we could survive retirement. It is becoming more difficult each day, and now he wants to make it even more difficult.

What about the reduction for schools? We need to educate our children. They are the future of our country. He wants to entice entrepreneurs from other countries to come to Michigan. What is wrong with producing our own entrepreneurs right here through better education?

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Dorothy Garofalo

St. Clair Shores

Able to pay

I applaud Gov. Snyder's bold budget proposal to turn Michigan around -- especially the long overdue taxation of pensions, and in particular the public pensions. Taxpayers funded much, if not all, of their pensions, and they now cry about the prospect of having to pay something back to support the state. How selfish and ungrateful! They get to retire in their early 50s, so I don't feel bad for them.

Just for one moment, think about those of us in the private sector who have had to save our own money to be able to retire. Do you really think those getting $40K-$100K-plus a year can't afford to pay something?

Why do retirees think they should be exempt?

Linda Sroka

South Lyon

Plenty to protest

So what is all the excitement about? Everyone heard the nerd. His campaign reeked of getting rid of the business tax. But how will that loss of income be replaced? The question was never posed, nor asked, and now we know.

The man is going to try to raise taxes, place a greater burden on people with fixed incomes, who can barely afford drugs and medical care, and there is going to be a hew and cry? There should be a maelstrom of dissent. We should be objecting as loudly as the Egyptians did in Cairo.

Ella Marlene Norman

Detroit

Retirees won't forget

Before Lansing legislators consider pilfering the pensions of private-sector retirees in Michigan, they should rethink the stereotyping that senior citizens have short-term memory capacity.

I belong to a fairly large retiree group, and the e-mails are already flying to identify any lawmaker who is on board with this thievery. If they think that the last elections were sending a message of "throw the bums out," they haven't seen anything yet.

Andy Herman

Madison Heights

Not really fair sharing

The new governor of Michigan is a reverse Robin Hood -- robbing from the poor to give to the rich. Children and seniors deserve better. Other states have business taxes in which corporations pay their fair share of running the state.

Joseph Dyki

Dearborn

Return the favor

The auto companies have made their comeback and have billions in cash with the help of taxpayers. Well, Michigan needs a bailout, and our governor wants me to pay for it. I just wish our auto companies, banks and other major companies with their billions in cash will do for Michigan what oil companies did for Alaska. We the taxpayers need only $1.8 billion to bail Michigan out. It would be a great way to say thank you to the people of this great state.

Dan Trombetta

Taylor

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Get Wrinkles Out of Clothes Without Ironing - Associated Content

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Do you hate to iron as much as I do? The iron gets heavy, the steam and heat from the iron makes it hot work, its tedious, and you get burned every once in a while. Sometimes I feel like I iron more wrinkles in than I

get out. Well, I have learned several tricks to get wrinkles out of clothes without ironing. And no it doesn't involve purchasing expensive gadgets such as electric steamers, steam balls that go into the dryer, or a special product that you spray onto wet clothes and pull flat that is supposed to just relax the wrinkles out of clothes. These ideas are simple and quick, not like ironing which is long and tedious.

Most kids now days don't really like the crisp ironed look anyway. But parents don't like it when their kids wear clothes that look like it just got pulled out from under the bed either. So this look is in between. Its smooth but with no stiff or crisp ridges.

Easiest way to get wrinkles out of clothes without ironing? Air Fluff

My favorite way to get wrinkles out of clothes is air fluffing with no heat. As I get my wet clothes out of my washing machine I toss the clothes that I want to air fluff in the dryer and make another stack in the floor that I will dry with heat after I air fluff for a few minutes. I only air fluff my cotton and rayon fabrics and only for a very short time. In fact I usually put another load of clothes in the washing machine while the other is air fluffing and that is usually enough time for a lot of the wrinkles to be shaken out. I then take the air fluffed clothes out and hang them up in my laundry room to air dry. Hanging the clothes to air dry seems to let more of the wrinkles fall out. After they are dry they are very presentable in my opinion. There might be a stubborn shirt here and there I still have to press but for the most part they don't look wrinkled. The best part is that the wrinkles are out and I didn't have to stand for a long time ironing them out.

However a garment cools is how it stays

Kids Clothing

Sunday, February 20, 2011