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Tag: Never again

Which end up?

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Mon Dec 27, 2010 at 10:06:17 PM EST
Tags: Granholm, Michigan, Failure, Never again, MEDC, Ostrich (all tags)

A Cap Con article reminds us that Michigan's governor was clueless about the MEDC program not producing desired results. In the face of near constant and deserved criticisms that were based on actual figures, Jennifer Granholm somehow was able to ignore that fact that all the money poured into economic advancement programs for business by government somehow didn't seem to produce any results of substance. From the story:

In a recent interview, outgoing Gov. Jennifer Granholm said she had no idea that the job creation announcements over the course of her two terms had been contradicted by studies finding that just over 70 percent of the bragged-about jobs were never created. James Hohman, fiscal policy analyst for the Mackinac Center, was stunned when he learned that Granholm told the Michigan Information and Research Service that she hadn't heard of any evidence contradicting the rosy job scenarios she had been promoting through the embattled Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

Of course! Now this makes complete sense..

I/We have been writing about it here, and elsewhere that it takes a truly backward political ideology to harvest such failure from a state that had the best crop of success to begin with. More than once its been pointed out on these pages that Michigan once upon a time had the most resistance to recession, and recovered from down turns the fastest. Backward policy HAD to be the culprit.

Perhaps it was some other orientation as well? (Finished below)

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