 firecrackers funds let s celebrate  some fireworks that are currently illegal in michigan could be legalized and sold to help raise money for state government under terms of budgetrelated legislation advancing in the state house bottle rockets are fun but the curmudgeon in me am i old enough to be a curmudgeon doesn t want firecrackers going off around my house all year round the weeks before and after the fourth are enough but what would a budget debate be without threats democrats say if the plan does not get enacted the budget will be cut there are the democrats we know and love children will starve the disadvantaged will be evicted the sea levels will rise unless billy can buy an m80  