Sound_Off's Blog

I am an avid hunter and I don't get time off to go hunting. I have to take my personal vacation time when opening day falls on a weekday. Forget the budget debacle, just have the governments operate like a normal company and that will probably solve most of our problems.

They shouldn't be paid for this hunting vacation. This is a prime example of our tax dollars being wasted in our state government. These bureaucrats can afford their own way just like the rest of us. Eliminate their fat cat expense accounts & state-owned vehicles for personal use, and make our Michigan government more accountable to the people that pay their salaries. Waste not, want not.

I DON'T GET 18 DAYS OFF ALL YEAR, IS THIS LIKE ONE OF THOSE BLONDE JOKES ?? YOU GO JENNY, KEEP STICKIN IT TO THE PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN, THEY LOVE YOU SO MUCH THEY PUT YOU IN THERE TWICE, TALLMAN, HOW DID THEY COME THRU FOR US ?? AS AN INDIAN , YOU SHOULDN'T SETTLE FOR BEADS IN ONE HAND WHILE THEY STAB US IN THE BACK WITH ANOTHER... IN MY OPINION THEY DIDN'T GET ANYTHING DONE... JUST LIKE CHRYSLER AND THE UAW, AS SOON AS THEY RADIFIED THE CONTRACT THEY TELL THOSE PEOPLE , GREAT, NOW WERE GETTING RID OF 12,000 MORE, I LOVE HOW THEY TELL YOU ONE THING BUT DO ANOTHER... BYE BYE MICHIGAN, ONLY TEN MONTHS TO GO AND I CAN GET ME AND MY MONEY BACK DOWN SOUTH, WHERE WE SHALL RISE AGAIN

For crying out loud. This budget debacle has been going on for over a year. And now they need a vacation to hunt? Are we paying them overtime? Is that the deal? GET BACK TO WORK AND DO YOUR JOBS!

I think the ones that go hunting and feel its the right thing to do should be one ones recalled.

What I can't understand is if all 148 of them are getting 18 days off to go hunting then how come only 9 have a license to hunt?

Are the other 139 poachers?

Are they going to wait until they shoot one and then go get the license?

This state has the most pathetic legislator in the entire country DEMS and REP alike!!!

This is typical of Michigan government! They do nothing but think of ways to impose taxes that does nothing but reduce the amount of discretionary income we have and then spend it ways most of us would object to. Now we must be forced to absorb the costs of these individuals while they hunt or whatever it is they have planned. When most of us take off work we do not get paid and the same conditions should apply to these individuals. When will the taxpayers of this state unite and tell these elected officials ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! If anyone listened to Martha Scott during the budget crisis she made a very important comment regarding the amount the income tax should be raised. She said " we need to take as much as we have to to solve this crisis, now and in the future". The key word here is "take", they were going to take that money from us not ASK. I am this far from deciding to relocate!!!

Just stay off my bait pile

I think a lot of us are counting the years or days to relocation. (never thought it would be me) Oklahoma is sounding really good about now. Check out their new laws re illegals.

Just what are those 139 "hunters with no licenses" doing? For 18 days, that is riduculous. And we're paying for it!
I dont get paid vacation. Unless you count being layed off and collecting unemployement a paid vacation LOL. I would move out of michigan tomarrow, but first I would have to sell my house (hahahah) never going to happen here. I'm with you car, trapped and screwed in this state.