Former Michigan Gov. Granholm: GOP Refuses to Compromise on Fiscal Issues

Anyone who would place credibility in economic advice from Jennifer Granholm is beyond desperate. As a Michigan resident, I was forced to witness her version of progress. Her intentions are good but her qualifications are lacking. Her final State of the State speech was unbelievable. She stood there actually touting the job creation "progress" she had achieved, utterly ignoring the painful biting truth of the abject failure of her policies.
Certainly the worst governor I have ever seen.

The record speaks for itself. The Democrats have had their chance to show who they are and what they represent. Maybe Jennifer Granholm should go back to Detroit, Michigan and share her ideas with her constituents.

How does Granholm's opinion factor into anything? I tanked Michigasn so I deserve an opinion on how to tank the whole country? What a joke.

Granholm was a complete disaster for Michigan. She refused to deal with corrupt Detroit politicians, especially the mayor because of her progressive politics. The only "cuts" this liberal democrat made were because of political pressure from republicans and without any choice because Michigan law requires a balanced budget. Just slither away Jennifer.

545 vs. 300,000,000 People
-By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

The politicians all over the world are engaged in the biggest swindle and robbery in the history of the world. They take the rank and file's money right off the top, give lucrative government contracts to their financial backers, line their own pockets, waste tens of trillions of dollars and leave us with crumbs. Then they call anyone who doesn't trust them "extreme."

Folks, get this through your heads: Ordinary people are NOT the intended beneficiaries of any of this spending. The politicians won't be satisfied until the currencies are worthless and anyone not politically connected will have to come crawling to their federal and local representatives just to stay alive.

The world of Bureaucrats.....Create a continual need for them. The governments role.... to serve the people. If only they saw it that way.

They remind me of a surly teenager who crashes the family car and then goes around pouting that their driving privileges have been taken away.

We DESPERATELY need more than 2 terrible parties

With all due respect governor, this country has "compromised" itself into a $14.3 T hole. We MUST change the way we govern.

I have family in Minnesota and they think the state is operating just fine and nobody seems to notice the government shut-down. Maybe Minnesota doesn't need so many government employees?

Granholm ran Michigan into the ground. From border to border the state is an economic wasteland and no place in the country is a greater illustration of this than Detroit. It's so bad city planners want to return part of the city to cow pastures. Why would anyone listen to a word this woman says??

I am so glad that my former governor who never ran a balanced budget and added a lot of debt to Michigan chides others for trying to balance the national budget.

We got rid of you, Jennifer.

just go away.

[Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm blames the Republican Party for taking such a hard line on spending cuts, seemingly at the expense of all else. ] =============================================

Here we go with the "blame game" again. Blaming does not solve the problems. Both parties & voters are responsible for the reckless spending. We all benefited, so we all have to pay.

Is that Jennifer Granholm blaming Engler again? How original.

She runs a state into the ground and now we re suppose to believe she is credible to give advice.
Give me a break.

How do you compromise with stupidity?

Yeah, like we need to listen to the governor who helped run Michigan into the ground!

As a lifelong resident of the (formerly) great state of Michigan, why are you wasting your time talking to this babbling idiot?!? Jobless Jenny's eight-year reign of error single-handedly turned this state into vacant wasteland. If the topic concerned how to lead the nation in unemployment or how to be an good little servant to the public employee unions, then Jenny's your girl. Any other topics, just keep the screen blank. That would be far more enlightening than anything this actress/lawyer and all-around failure has to say