An estimated 150 fewer area residents were working in November than a year earlier, but because there are also 750 fewer people in the local labor force, the unemployment figures look better than in 2009.

From the glass is half full side of the ledger, that is 750 people no longer having to rely on the assistance of Michigan taxpayers to survive in this new green economy of Jennifer Granholm's--assuming that they all moved and aren't home polishing up their new Bridge Cards.

But, more disturbingly (from the glass has been three-quarters empty for the last eight years side of the equation,) there are 150 fewer taxpaying jobs around to help fill public coffers.

These tax contributions are vital, both in helping support those pushed over the economic edge by Michigan's newly departed disaster in chief, and in helping to pay off fascism-loving crony capitalists who promise to create inefficient and expensive "green jobs" that will assuredly rejuvenate Michigan's economy, that is, once tomorrow finally gets here.

I honestly don't blame Jennifer Granholm for every mess this state seems to step in, and sadly I don't trust Rick Snyder to be much better when it comes to wise stewardship in regards to the money Michigan extorts from its remaining taxpayers--but I do blame Jenny for embracing every bizarro economic principle in the book in her effort to change Michigan into a worker's paradise despite the free-market's resistance.

Granholm may not be to blame for the total mess Michigan is in today, but she certainly supports every idea behind which we can place full blame.

The good news is that Jennifer Granholm has finally exited the governor's office down in Lansing.  The bad news is that she left a statewide disaster in her wake.