It is always a tragedy when a child dies, but let's get real here. You had a father sleeping at 9 in the morning, letting a 3 year old "Babysit" an 18 month old. Now we have WOOD and the rest of the bleeding hearts calling on the rest of us to shell out millions of dollars to fence these retaining ponds that are required by law! As many others have pointed out, if you can't raise your kids, you shouldn't have had them in the first place. There are a number of ways to keep kids indoors if you work an odd shift and sleep during the day. The kid could have just as easily been hit by a car or kidnapped. You don't let 3 year olds babysit for any length of time!
Gee, what ever happened to the Grand Valley Metropolitan Council, it was supposed to save the taxpayers billions by consolidating government efforts. I was opposed to it when it was created, and I am even more opposed to it now. It is just another layer of bureaucracy that sucks the resources from where they are needed to pay more government bureaucrats to sit around and do nothing but complain they don't have enough money. Dissolve the GVMC and return that money back to the cities and townships, and a lot of the money problems would dissappear.
Phosphorus in it's raw, concentrated state is nasty stuff, it produces it's own oxygen when it burns. It will burn under water, and it can't be smothered. It was used for weapons at one time, but I believe it has been banned by the Geneva Convention if I remember correctly. A Hazmat team may have been overkill, but I wouldn't want a bunch of high school kids messing with it if it had spilled, either. I would think a high school chemistry teacher should have been able to handle it, but that depends on where and how much spilled, something we will never learn from WOODTV8.
Not having been there or not related to any one involved, I can't say for sure whether there was a trailer or not, but this much is certain, the driver of the minivan was going too fast. This is obvious, since he hit the rig. Maybe the rig shouldn't have been in the road, but rural roads at night, with fog, slow down! It could have as easily been a person walking or a piece of farm equipment in the road. Just because the posted speed limit is 55 doesn't mean that you have to drive 60 or 65 MPH. You have to drive for the conditions, not the speed limit.
I say good riddance to the whole Pure Michigan ad campaign. It isn't the state's duty to advertise for businesses here in this state. Cut business taxes, and let them run their own ads. The sad thing is that all the advertising in the world won't overcome the negative view many people have of Michigan from the news reports they hear. If we could get our house in order, people would flock here, but when they hear of police and firefighters being laid off, our schools going down the crapper, and all the rest, they aren't going to want to come here no matter how much the state wastes on ads. Its time to elect some people to Lansing that know how to set priorities, and quit wasting tax dollars on every whim and notion that people may have.
Yes, and our legislature and govenors have cut much more than that from general fund revenues that used to go towards education. It's all a shell game where the tax payers lose. The lottery is nothing more than a tax on the poor that can hardly afford it, yet they hope to strike it rich someday. Do away with the lottery and quit taxing the poor and have them spend their money on something more productive, like their kids. Use the money the state saves from the employees of the lottery to put towards schools, then come up with a fair way of funding the schools the way it should have been done in the first place.
Half a percent isn't going to help a lot, I am thinking that as much as I love Michigan that it is time to pull up stakes and move somewhere else.
Just what I thought, we get a lame excuse because you have no idea what you are talking about.
The wheels of justice sure turned slow in this case. The event happened in January 2007 and it took 10 months to determine she set the fire intentionally, then almost 2 more years for her to be arrested?
So vociferous all knowing one, why don't you educate all us ignorants out here exactly how grants do work, then you will no longer have to deal with our ignorance
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