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By Nick, Section News
Posted on Tue Feb 17, 2009 at 07:44:50 AM EST
Tags: Cherry, Delphi, COBRA, unemployment (all tags)

"I think she's got a strong record."

--Lieutenant Governor John Cherry, Detroit Free Press, January 14, 2009

Governor Jennifer Granholm has "laid a strong groundwork for the state's future, and he'll be happy to run on the Democratic governor's record," according to a January 14th article in the Ivory Tower succinctly titled - Cherry: I'll run on Granholm's record

By way of reminder.

Now open today's newspapers, across the state, and be dumbfounded. Now, yeah, there are rotten stories in the papers every day these last six-plus years and the numbers can get so ugly we almost become anesthetized to them. Familiarity breeds contempt, and all of that jazz. So its understandable if you read news like that in this morning's Ivory Tower announcing the fresh firings of 775 moms and dads at Delphi in mid-Michigan. 425 line workers and 350 diverse, white collar "jobs of tomorrow."

The white-collar layoffs are in all departments, including engineering, purchasing, manufacturing and sales. Before the cuts, Delphi's steering division had 3,600 employees.

Those are big numbers. Again. Just like yesterday and the day before that and last week and on and on they go, sort of like My Chemical Romance's "Black Parade." But you're exposed to that sort of depressing news long enough and it starts to get stale.

Job losses can feel almost clinical. The battle to find a new job and to provide for your family? Maybe its because I've got parents and nine younger siblings who are trying to make it in this economy, maybe its because I woke up on the sad side of the bed or maybe its because I'm a sap, but stories like the one we find in this morning's Muskegon Chronicle, about the almost overwhelming difficulty of finding employment... they kick my butt like an escalating unemployment counter never could.

Read on...

Consider the search for a part-time assistant at the Hart Public Library in Oceana County, a position that most likely won't generate more than 24 hours a week at $8.50 an hour.
Even before Joan LundBorg, the library's director, posted the position in the local paper, applications started filtering in.
Within days, LundBorg had received 50 applications. And when the time came to fill the position, she had to wade through 120 applications.

That's 119 families who are at a point in Michigan where 24 hours a week at $8.50 an hour isn't just something they aspire to... its an unrealistic goal.

The Lansing State Journal explores another angle of the crisis this morning, too, taking a look at parents' struggles to afford health insurance for their children after losing their jobs.

...After a rapid rise in health care costs this decade, the economics of continuing on COBRA are beyond the reach of many, according to a study released this month by Families USA. The average monthly COBRA premium for family coverage, $1,069, consumes 84 percent of the average monthly unemployment check, which is $1,287, the study found.

Even the systems we've set up to catch those who've stumbled, the social safety-net as it were, can't save folks after such a precipitous fall. And the results of the failed Granholm-Cherry policies of the last six years, they don't affect numbers... they affect people. Families.

John Cherry thinks that's a strong record? He's happy to run on that platform? Even if you give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he doesn't really mean it; that he's just supporting his boss, playing the part of the good soldier, being willing to utter sentences like those illustrates an encompassing tone deafness. Sadly, it looks like its much worse. He seems sincere.

Proud of an employment rate plummeting like a rock? Happy to run on a record of hurting families and mounting uninsured? On a news day like today, more than most, the man should be embarrassed... and ashamed.

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So you're proud of this, huh? | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)

No Shame (none / 0) (#1)
by DMOnline on Tue Feb 17, 2009 at 08:40:49 AM EST

To be ashamed, one needs to know what shame actually is. The Dems are shameless - always have been, always will be. They know no shame. They only know one thing - power. And they'll stop at nothing to get it and to retain it.

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Right, I mean, I agree on some level by Nick, 02/17/2009 08:55:09 AM EST (none / 0)

Solid Record (none / 0) (#3)
by Rougman on Tue Feb 17, 2009 at 09:55:25 AM EST

Progressives and their ilk (like Granholm and Cherry and Obama) above all believe in their own benevolence and wisdom. They do not think of themselves as power hungry any more than a parent sees himself as power hungry when he herds his children toward more positive choices and a better life. Parents do it for the love of their children and our benevolent caretakers do it for the good of the people.

Granholm and Cherry do everything that they can to save us poor fools from our own human nature. We individuals, they see, are too greedy for the good of society. We are too selfish and too vain. When we do things for ourselves we screw up the utopia that can only be achieved through socialism and big government planning.

Cherry and Granholm do it for the people!

So, of course Don thinks Jenny has a sound record to stand on. She has helped to raise a generation of citizens that are willing to fall in line behind the central planners. It is, after all, for our own good.

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