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Tag: CD5

The Benefit Of The Shrinking Syndrome..

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Thu Nov 04, 2010 at 11:18:32 AM EST
Tags: Michigan, Congress, Peters, Kildee, Dingell, Rocky, CD5, CD9, CD15 (all tags)

Michigan has been diminished. Its population decimated by a combination of poor leadership in Washington, and an eight year plague in the executive office in Lansing. The economy here has been so bad, that even the illegal immigrants have been loathe to join us in our demise. Michigan's traditional resilience has not held up to past benchmarks, and has chased more of those migrant job seekers away with its oppressive business climate preventing new job creation.

Indeed, even the illegals understood that Michigan offered little hope, and was not the place to settle and raise a little anchor family. [cue little house on the prairie theme]

So they packed up their tukes, loaded up the covered wagons, and either returned over the international bridge or moved further south to other more welcoming states, ignoring their queen, our governor's pleas of "just hang on," and "the blown away part is coming." They left us for greener pastures, in a quest for survival. Other states host these 'immigrants' quite splendidly, offering both employment opportunities and even sanctuary for those weary travelers who know no international boundaries and respect no rule of law.

And by golly we are sorry to see them ..not here.

And then we lose a seat in Congress.

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