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.  

Anyway, as I see it, the only recourse that us voters have now is leaning on the state legislature.  Snyder is gonna do whatever Snyder wants to do.  He's made that clear in typical CEO fashion.  As it stands to date, if Snyder were a CEO in the automotive world, he's decided to face-lift his Edsel, keep the Pinto in production even though another burst into flames, tinker with gimmickry dashboards, and all the while ignoring Lemon Laws.

Yah!  I'd say that's about what we have to date in a tidy auto paraphrased sentence.  But, then again, it's not like it wasn't expected with how Michigan Primary's work.  Maybe in the future there'll be a registration requirement.  It'd at least give the more Conservative think folks a fighting chance of weeding out for the General.

In other fun, sumpin' from this came to mind too.

Kevin:  How concerned are you about the statement from MDP Chairman, Mark Brewer, that about 80% of Gov. Snyder's address could have been delivered by a Democrat?

Norm:  Mark Brewer's credibility is so low that I don't care what he says.  He's likely not telling the truth anyway, just blowing smoke.

Oh?  Norm, for a lot of us in this state, we saw exactly what Brewer saw.

In fact, and you're going to love this, right now I'm not sure that the UAW is going to be able to keep him in his position as the MDP Chair.  He's got a fight on his hands, because Jocelyn Benson is trying to leverage into that spot.  The question becomes which one of them is better for us, because Benson's just as guilty of being a fraudulent snake as Brewer is.  The way I see it, it's the snake we know or the snake we don't know.

Didja ever here of glass houses, Norm?  The MI-GOP sure as hell isn't immune to any snake accusations when you look at assclowns like Nofs in bed with the MEA, Upton authoring legislation for CFL's and our new AG Schuette trying to kill power plants like the MoleRattler did.