Until our elected officials begin to come to grips with the fact that businesses are in business to make profits and not to employ people, this state will not enable businesses to make profits and hire people as a result. (That is, of course, except for those businesses that are willing to prostitute themselves as part of a public/private partnership.)  

We need cheap energy (any short term hope of which was killed by Granholm) less cumbersome regulations on businesses and individuals (regulations that have wormed so deeply into Michigan society that they may take multiple governors to unravel) and we need a labor force that is less adversarial.  None of this even addresses the size of our gluttonous state government that seems to want to shove its sniffing nose into every orifice currently vacant a government nose.

Gov. Snyder might even be what he projects himself to be, you know, one tough nerd.  I'm afraid however that his nerdiness in the end will resemble the tough nerdiness employed by the outgoing governors of California and Michigan.