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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    Michigan's Soon To Be Gone Governor - Tinker Bell or Barbarella?


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Fri Dec 10, 2010 at 10:26:58 AM EST
    Tags: Green Jobs, Granholm, Stupidity, Spain, Energy, Michigan (all tags)

    The Cap Con's Tom Gantert today writes about our executive destroyer's politico op-ed, and how she offers advice to the rest of the country on how to create jobs:

    Granholm served as a guest op-ed writer for the national news site POLITICO. Saying the nation needs a "moon shot" jobs strategy to create 3 million new jobs, she used as an example Michigan government's recent bet that the lithium-ion battery industry should be cultivated with special treatment and favors from state government.

    Granholm wrote: "If the states are the laboratories of democracy, Washington can take a lesson from what is happening in Michigan."

    Jenny, Jenny, Jenny...  shut up.  Just fade away, explode, dissolve in the sunlight, etc.. Whatever it takes to get your vampire's touch off this state, but please just shut up, and do not try to peddle your failure to the rest of the country any longer.  

    You talk of learning from what is happening?  How can you even say that, when you have learned nothing?  Even a stupid animal eventually knows that its paws get burned if it touches fire.

    Below the gutter line for more..

    I mean really..  You want to learn?  Spain has a few lessons you might pick up on.  'Green Energy Jobs' come at a cost; 'Real Jobs.'  Yet you continue touting the killer of manufacturing as the way to go:
    "Development of the wind energy sector is a key piece of Michigan's strategy to diversify our economy and create clean energy jobs," said Governor Granholm at a news conference in Lansing. "The agreement announced today helps to solidify the state's emerging leadership in this industry."

    A real genius.. you betcha.

    Emerging..  like the scratchy feeling when infected with poison ivy, or the last callers from a 10 hour stint in the local pub, these 'emerging' leaders certainly have great potential.

    Green energy doesn't cut it, and creates incredible costs to manufacturing.  And to drive it further, our mistress of the night did what she could to end, or delay real power solutions in Rogers City and Bay city.  Real solutions that would have taken some load of the southern grid, and created real jobs.  

    Her quixotic visions somehow have not gotten through to the departments which would tear out potential 'green' generation up here though.  The several dams that will be removed from a watershed here had electrical generation until 2007. From a report I have at hand:

    The Brown Bridge, Boardman, and Sabin Dams were all originally constructed with power generation
    capabilities. Power was generated at the dams until 1969, at which time, the turbines and generators were removed from Boardman and Sabin Dams. In 1983, both Boardman and Sabin Dams were renovated and hydroelectric power generation re-commenced in 1985. Brown Bridge Dam continuously generated power during this time. In November 2006 Brown Bridge and Sabin Dams were de-commissioned, and in January 2007 the Boardman Dam was decommissioned. Power generation operations were terminated upon decommissioning at all dams.

    Now they are slated for removal.  A process pushed by the DNRe and conservation groups hoping to revert land and water flow to an original 'greener age' that existed 120 years ago. (roughly the age of the first dams)

    Huh.. what could be more 'Green' than hydro electric power?

    The argument against operating these? Not enough electrical generation revenue to offset the cost of maintaining them...

    But we will pay $300k per battery factory job, we will pay double for electrical generation from bird chopping, noise making eyesores, and we will stress the grid even more by attempting to build an electric car infrastructure that must depend on the magic pixie dust left in her coat suit pocket to fly.

    20 more days..

    < Light day.. but | MR. & MRS. >


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    My take? (none / 0) (#1)
    by Corinthian Scales on Fri Dec 10, 2010 at 03:39:49 PM EST
    Maintenance costs aside... not enough kickbacks and payola for the politicos to run their fingers through with what's already in existence.

    and, 771 more days...

    Unfortunately Mr. Gillman (none / 0) (#2)
    by RushLake on Sat Dec 11, 2010 at 06:09:54 AM EST
    Akbar Hussein has demonstrated that he will inflict the Marxian utopia on us by any means necessary. She is more than a foot soldier in that movement, and I look for her to show up very soon in his maladministration. Either that, or she ends up sucking off the public teat running a "public" university at high wages ala Mary Sue Coleman.

    I wouldn't be that harsh... (none / 0) (#3)
    by KG One on Sat Dec 11, 2010 at 09:57:31 AM EST
    ...on our outgoing governor.

    Even though she has destroyed Michigan's economy, driven away residents, effectively collapsed our state's budget and made it difficult for our state to recover, she still is providing an example of leadership.

    I was watching National Treasure earlier this week, and after reading your post, this quote from the movie is very apropos:

    "I didn't fail, I found 2,000 ways how not to make a light bulb; I only need to find one way to make it work." - Ben Gates "National Treasure"

    Gov Granholm is one of the 1,999 things to avoid.

    A delusional politician who offers no real solutions can still be used as an example...an example of what to look out for in future politicians and fought against fervently so that they are never elected to any political office in the future.

    This picture encapsulates it all, really... (none / 0) (#6)
    by jenkuz on Sat Dec 11, 2010 at 08:33:30 PM EST
    JGill (none / 0) (#8)
    by grannynanny on Sat Dec 11, 2010 at 10:05:32 PM EST
    Just returned from your neck of the woods for a girl's weekend. Have not been to the TC area in the last couple of years - everybody in my family has been healthy and not in need of the excellent care of Munson.  

    That said, there were lots of shoppers out, me included (and I hate shopping but grandchildren make me all mushy), as the last couple trips were for medical reasons, not shopping, dining and enjoying the beauty of the area.  

    Wow, lots of shuttered business buildings!  Two Penny Jenny continually brags about what she has done for Michigan but you never hear about the empty business buildings and homes displaying the dreaded for lease or sale signs - city after city after city after city.

    Our Lansing area is just as bad and it is also dismal on the NE side of the state, two areas that we are so familiar with - it just really made it more dismal when I saw what I saw in Traverse City these last two days.  The area was bustling due to the Christmas season but it was very sad to see the shuttered businesses in an area that always seems so busy and vibrant, despite the ups and downs of past recessions and down turns.

    The very sweet and attentive breakfast lady at our hotel said it is the worst she has seen in all her years in the area.  She said years past there were tons of Canadians that frequented the area to shop because of the dollar difference and now no one is coming from the northern border for the same reason - why spend the extra money traveling to TC for the same deal they can get in Canada.  

    The only happy thing we saw - a guy won a 4x4 Chevy Silverado at Turtle Creek Casino.

    Doesn't Great Leadership Require (none / 0) (#13)
    by BruceB on Mon Dec 13, 2010 at 10:53:17 AM EST
    Getting "The Right Things Done"?  

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