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Tag: Don Williamson

The thing about promises of new jobs... too often they're broken

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Tue Feb 10, 2009 at 07:05:20 AM EST
Tags: Granholm, Cherry, jobs, economy, Detroit, Flint, Don Williamson, recall, failure (all tags)

Rough day yesterday for Michigan Democrats. Oh, sure, we've got the normal stories about big-time manufacturers handing out brand new pink slips to hundreds of Michigan moms and dads (this time its GM's Flint operation, axing 150), we've got the annual pre-spring story about how bad Michigan's roads... and this time it looks like the Granholm-Cherry administration is failing to keep up with repairs in spectacular new ways.

Much worse, though, is the darker reality hiding beneath an Ivory Tower story about the closing of a single small business in downtown Detroit.

The owners of Zaccaro's Market set-up shop less than a year ago amid all of the hullabaloo about the renaissance of the Motor City. There were promises of new jobs, new development, new housing and rebirth. There weren't just promises either... there were reports and plans and momentum.

Remember the Governor's State of the State speech and that twenty-minute self-adulation session in the middle where she took credit for promises of thousands of new jobs? Commitments, pledges, plans, the whole deal?

Cindy Warner heard those same golden dreams ten months ago and bought them, hook, line and sinker. One little problem... promises and pledges and plans aren't the same as real jobs.

Read on...

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