Are they getting it?

Ok, its time to give credit where credit is due. Last week the Michigan legislature slogged its way through the 2009 budget. And although not done yet, it seems as if they're beginning to grasp what needs to be funded in order to help bring Michigan's economy back. Despite a $400 million budget deficit that needed to be solved, lawmakers found their way to give increases to higher education, community colleges and, believe it or not, for the first time in seven years, revenue sharing. In previous posts I've described how revenue sharing are those funds returned to local governments by the state to help fund essential services such as police and fire. It also goes towards parks and libraries as well, those things that help to maintain quality of life in our hometowns. Still to be decided but also likely to get an increase in funding is k-12 education and health care. So maybe, just maybe, they're starting to get it.