YouTube: Benton Harbor, Michigan on Verge of Democratic Collapse

Michigan is a prime example of the Barack Obama Democrat socialist agenda.  There are approximately 100 towns in Michigan on the verge of fiscal collapse.  Benton Harbor is one of them.

In light of Benton Harbor’s predicament Michigan lawmakers have opted for an extreme measure which gives unilateral authority to “emergency financial managers (EMF).”

In the face of massive public opposition, Michigan lawmakers recently reshaped democracy by giving unilateral authority to officials known as “emergency financial managers”. EMF's i.e. czars have independent authority to fire elected officials, close schools, void union contracts, sell public property and privatize assets.

YouTube: Dictatorship: Michigan Town on Verge of Democratic Collapse

“We believe it is illegal, immoral and unconstitutional,” said Benton Harbor Mayor Wilce Cooke. “No one person in this country has all that authority. The president of the United States did not have that authority.”

Benton Harbor residents like Scott Elliot say his city could be the start of a changing landscape in American politics.  “People throw around words like oligarchy and that sort of thing, but that is what it already is,” he said. “I think that the average citizen is going to have less and less to say about what is done with public assets.”

The new decision-makers (czars) are appointed by the governor to oversee school districts and cities like Benton Harbor facing financial distress. In April, Benton Harbor’s EMF stripped the elected City Council of its democratic power, leaving a city of 11,000 struggling Americans under the rule of a man they did not elect.

At least four other cities including Detroit have an emergency manager. In the “Motor City”, the EMF laid off some 6,000 teachers and is pioneering plans for corporations to privately run schools funded by public tax dollars

“They are hypocritical,” Wilce Cooke says. “They are trying to export democracy around the world, but at home, they are trying to suppress the citizens of this country.”

Michigan under Democrat control is all but economically destroyed.  Their legislature has taken a chapter out of Barack Obama's playbook.  Appoint czars that aren't elected  by the people and don't answer to the people.  That is a form of dictatorship, just like Obama's czars.

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