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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

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    by Kevin Rex Heine on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 07:35:14 PM EST
    John Engler succeeded Jim Blanchard as Michigan's Governor, inheriting a state workforce of 4,665,641 and an unemployment rate of 8.1%.  His administration was characterized by privatization of state services, tax reduction, educational reform, welfare reform, and major reorganization of executive branch departments.  During his last term, Governor Engler's policies actually had the state's workforce up to 5,174,837 and the unemployment rate down to 3.2%.

    Jennifer Granholm succeeds Engler as Governor, and has so far proceeded to steadily reduce Michigan's workforce to a current (as of May) level of 4,848,828 and steadily raise unemployment to . . . well . . . that ugly looking number above.

    And let's keep in mind what that number doesn't include:

    • Illegal immigrants - because you have to be here legally to count as a statistic for much of anything

    • Families who've left this state while they can - current estimates have that rate at one family every 12 minutes

    • People who've just given up and gone onto the state's welfare rolls

    • Workers who are quite content with a part-time (< 35 hrs/wk) job - because only full-time employment counts as being "employed" in this metric

    John Cherry swears that Granholm's record is worth running on, and that he'll be quite happy to run on it.  Very well then, we shall see to it that he's just as blown away as the rest of us.

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