THIS ITEM should be sent to every County Party Chair in MICHIGAN with instructions for a Press Release to local papers and radio.

With nearly 400,000 jobs lost in Michigan.

With Bankruptcies and FORECLOSURES at all time highs.

With POPULATION moving OUT of MICHIGN.

With a top UNEMPLOYMENT RATE in the NATION.

With one of the lowest growth rates in salaries and REAL INCOME in the Country.

With FORBES ranking MICHIGAN one of the most expensive States to do BUSINESS in.

With the MBT.

With a new HIGHER TAX load ($1.4 Billion more) passed by Lansing in late 2007!

WITH CEO Magazine ranking MICHIGAN in the bottom three in Business CLIMATE for THREE YEARS.

With SEVEN YEARS of DECREASING State GDP!

and I am sure there is more . . . .

Employment don't look to good for Michigan over the next few months. What they could do to keep the road crews going thru the winter, is create some "Blight crews" I heard they have 62,000 burnt up vacant homes in Detroit alone.

All they need is an excavator to knock-em down, and the dump trucks, or roll off trucks to take the stuff to the landfill. Alot of the road crews have this equiptment and could keep workin' thru the winter.
 THe city of Detroit looks like a toilet, and that could also be a reason people don't want to bring a business up here. If they got rid of the blight, people MIGHT be more willing to bring business back.

What a bunch of idiots. If idiocy produced light these guys could be seen from space. These morons have no clue that to have well paid employees you must have profitable employers.  Why should a company keep its doors open if it is not profitable?  Why would a company attract investors if it does not perform well?  Why should a company not try to do what it can to increase its long-term profit potential?  

If I were GM, or Ford, or Chrysler, I would immediately begin making long term plans to shift my entire manufacturing and professional operations to Alabama or Texas or somewhere warmer where there are fewer idiots.  Anywhere but this Democrat forsaken state.  

The state of Michigan and its belligerant unions have somehow determined that the auto companies are their captives and will only survive on the gruel spoon fed them from Lansing and Ron Gettelfinger's office.  This type of thinking, though rare, occurs when the brain is located deeply within the lower intestine.  

Sure, the auto companies have billions and billions of dollars invested in this state, but what do they ever get in return?  They are the bad guys, the greedy, the selfish.  But, the auto executives are not without a lot of leverage here. If they survive the next few months, will they concentrate on using the leverage that they have?  Up until now executives have been content to kick the can down the road into tomorrow.  For the first time in many years, these executives are wondering how many tomorrows there might be.  You can see the desperation reflecting off their tin cups.

Several years ago, GM shifted a huge amount of its manufacturing from Michigan to the Arlington assembly plant in Texas.  Thousands of jobs were lost to Michigan.  Thousands of homes went vacant in SE Michigan but thousands more were sold in north Texas.  Thousands of children began learning about Travis and Austin and forgot about Father Marquette.  Those children are now going to UT or SMU instead of Michigan and CMU.  Millions of cups of coffee are sold every year in D/FW that are no longer being consumed in Michigan.  For every bakery or grocery store that closes up here, a new one opens down there.

Don't get me wrong, I do not want to see any of the big 3 go belly up, and I do not want to see any of them move south either.  However, if either of those things is to happen, I want to see Fred Miller, hat in hand, take all the verbal abuse he has coming to him.  To call this guy a braying ass is an insult to braying asses everywhere--not that he is smart enough to understand that tired zinger.

I hope not, the value of my house has went down about 75% in the last few years, yet the taxes go up quite a bit every year.

On September 16, State Rep. Arlan Meekoff attempted to tie-bar HB 4454 onto HB 6256, a bill to regulate nursing homes that the Democrats wanted to pass. Meekoff's strategy appears to have been an attempt to force the pro-union side to swallow a RTW bill that they did NOT want as the price for getting what the DID want: having HB 6256 pass.

The amendment failed, with the Dem majority all voting "no."

But, also of note, 14 Republicans joined the "no" side. The MIRS story the next day said: "Republicans won a chance to vote on right to work amendment today, but watched 14 of their colleagues vote against the measure..."

35 Republicans voted "yes."

A full story will be in the next issue of Michigan Capitol Confidential. It is due out within days.

Eight years of big-spending Bush and big-government Congressional Republicans convinced voters that maybe the Dems deserve another chance on economic issues. They have their chance and THIS is the message that they deliver? That they are unionosaurs beholden to Stalinomics. Perfect for the GOP!

But then Ken Braun, ever the kill-joy, brings up one little problem. Too many Republicans cower before the shrinking thugosauruses. These GOPers remain fearful of taking a stand on anything where there is now, or ever was, opposition.

This avoidance of opposition is not, however, the fault of the politician. It is the JOB of a politician to avoid anything resembling opposition of any sort in their continued quest to just stick around in Lansing.

The fault lies with US and Republican PRIMARY voters that never punish cowardly RINO behavior at the ballot box.