![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Okay. So a small rant on the gubernatorial race going on in Michigan. I realize that this is probably interesting only to me, so I apologize in advance, lol.
I just saw an ad by the Democratic incumbent, Jennifer Granholm, equating the Republican Canidate, Former Vice President of Amway Corp., Dick Devos to George Bush Jr.
One of the things she uses to support this argument that both Dick Devos and George Bush Jr. supported NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement). NAFTA is one of the things she's blaming for the current dismal economic state of Michigan (which I disagree with profoundly, but that's neither here nor there), and is one of her major arguments for why her opponent shouldn't be governor.
WTF
Okay. Assuming even that Dick Devos supported and is somehow responsible for everything that George Bush Jr. has done, and even assuming that Dick Devos was in favor of NAFTA (which he probably was) how the fuck is NAFTA either of their faults when NAFTA was ratified by THE DEMOCRATIC EX PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON?
Sure it was supported by a George Bush... George Bush Sr. back when he was president.
This is such an amazing misrepresentation. It makes me absolutely sick that she'd make statements like this. It was her own freaking party that signed that treaty, not the freaking Republicans.
Don't get me wrong, George Bush's economic policies have fucked up Michigan's economy, namely passing two tariffs, one that protects Pennsylvania steel factories (and makes it hella expensive for Michigan automakers to buy steel) and second, sugar tarrifs that protect Louisiana sugar farmers and caused Lifesaver to move one of their candy plants out of the country (because the price of American sugar was too high). If she wants to blame the president for the economic problems of Michigan, that would be a much better place to start, but then, she wouldn't be able to slander her opponent who clearly didn't benefit from either of those tariffs.
Fucking Lying Politicians.
I just saw an ad by the Democratic incumbent, Jennifer Granholm, equating the Republican Canidate, Former Vice President of Amway Corp., Dick Devos to George Bush Jr.
One of the things she uses to support this argument that both Dick Devos and George Bush Jr. supported NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement). NAFTA is one of the things she's blaming for the current dismal economic state of Michigan (which I disagree with profoundly, but that's neither here nor there), and is one of her major arguments for why her opponent shouldn't be governor.
WTF
Okay. Assuming even that Dick Devos supported and is somehow responsible for everything that George Bush Jr. has done, and even assuming that Dick Devos was in favor of NAFTA (which he probably was) how the fuck is NAFTA either of their faults when NAFTA was ratified by THE DEMOCRATIC EX PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON?
Sure it was supported by a George Bush... George Bush Sr. back when he was president.
This is such an amazing misrepresentation. It makes me absolutely sick that she'd make statements like this. It was her own freaking party that signed that treaty, not the freaking Republicans.
Don't get me wrong, George Bush's economic policies have fucked up Michigan's economy, namely passing two tariffs, one that protects Pennsylvania steel factories (and makes it hella expensive for Michigan automakers to buy steel) and second, sugar tarrifs that protect Louisiana sugar farmers and caused Lifesaver to move one of their candy plants out of the country (because the price of American sugar was too high). If she wants to blame the president for the economic problems of Michigan, that would be a much better place to start, but then, she wouldn't be able to slander her opponent who clearly didn't benefit from either of those tariffs.
Fucking Lying Politicians.