1. Steals from some insurance plans to give to others
   
2. Forces Insurers to accept high cost liabilities.
   
3. Coerces the purchase of insurance by consumers
   
4. Sets up mechanisms whereby abortion is covered
   
5. Does not exclude Illegals from sapping our system

Add to this the purposeful ignoring of the CRU emails indicating fraud with regard to temperature data and timing and we have even more trouble brewing for Michigan.  What little manufacturing that is left here might just so easily pack up and move to another country if moving to another state.  Given the story of the Rogers City Power plant (be sure to read all the installments - heck of a chronicle):

With Cap and Trade legislation largely considered dead-on-arrival in the Senate, the EPA means to enact similar, without a doubt, more stringent commands on coal plants.  It is not to be ignored that a spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute concluded, "The only certainty is that EPA regulation would be far more expensive than congressional-designed legislation."

What does this mean?

The most recent segment of the Jen's story points out what is going to become even worse now that the EPA has an Obama mandate to "necessarily bankrupt the coal industry" ..and raise power costs to unacceptable levels.

Manufacturing uses electricity folks.  LOTS OF IT.  Raising cost on the fuel used to make it raises the cost to buy it.

The strange thing that is going to happen however, is the EPA will be the beast to fight now, as they will be using the Obama mandate to dole out licenses to power providers and through the executive office controlling yet another segment of our economy.  Some would almost prefer the cap & trade as presented by the congress when they see what is going to happen here, but Levin and Stabenow, and all the other Jokers in Congress and the Senate, including too many of our own, with the passage of the health care legislation, have spent all the goodwill they can afford.  They will likely not pursue cap & trade.. for now.

How our two senators can continue to work towards the destruction of our state is beyond understanding.  Simple placement of the blame on special interests or particular contributions cannot possibly explain such insanity.  The only reasonable answer that we can assume is the power sharing this administration has been brokering in its most "Chicago like" manner.