Shock Doctrine: 'Emergency Finance Managers' And The Right-Wing's Power Grab

[Hissyspit]

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AlterNet / By Sarah Jaffe

Shock Doctrine: 'Emergency Finance Managers' and the Right-Wing's Power Grab

Emergency financial managers are being put in place by democratically elected governors throughout the country.

June 26, 2011 |

The onslaught of radical policies from the wave of Tea Party-supported right-wing state politicians swept in in the 2010 elections has been nearly overwhelming. Nearly every state that saw a Republican takeover of the statehouse or legislature has faced attacks on collective bargaining, immigration, reproductive freedoms, or health care. New power grabs have popped up constantly, and copycat bills have sprung up in their wake as if an official playbook has been passed around the country.

But one of the nastiest moves has been the institution, by Michigan governor Rick Snyder, of an “emergency manager” over several cities in his state, as well as the Detroit public school system. This manager has the unilateral authority to fire officials, close schools, void union contracts, and assume total control over areas declared to be in a financial state of emergency by the state.

And it looks like the idea is spreading.

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[RandomThoughts]

1. It was in the local papers from a quote of a Democrat.

Talking about when things get to a certain level of difficulty, they suspend the rights to correct things.

Although if you do that, you give a reason to make things bad, for authoritarians.

I actually took the clip out of the news paper and kept it, it was either fiction from the paper, or totalitarianism from the politician, either one is a terrible sign of what some are trying to do.

[MikeMc]

2. Can't be, Hiss.

Repugs and teabaggers are strongly opposed to 'tsars'.

+1.

[Overseas]

3. The "Don't Tread on Me" crowd should be really angry about this.

And yet it is those same "Liberty Liberty USA USA" tea party types who voted for the jerks stripping them of their liberties.

[truth2power]

4. "...copycat bills have sprung up in their wake as if an official playbook has been passed around the

country." That would be American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). NO?