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Old July 28th, 2009 #1
conflict
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Default Think Michigan's 15.2 percent unemployment rate is bad? You're next!

http://www.americanissuesproject.org...u-re-next.aspx

Michigan has led the United States for one-hundred years. We were the state that put the world on wheels at the beginning of the 20th century. We were the state that “created the middle class” with the organization of labor in the workplace. We were the “arsenal of democracy,” supplying just about every mechanized need imaginable during the Second World War.

In the decades that followed, through ups and downs in the national economy, Michigan always led the way. When the national economy got a sniffle we caught one heck of a nasty cold but when times were good, nowhere were they better than he Great Lakes State.

Such was the case at the turn of the millennium when after nearly a decade of pro-market privatization, pro-business tax cuts and pro-family property tax reform we all but led the industrialized universe with a miniscule 3.2 percent unemployment rate and a quality of life that made San Diego look like Hoboken.

Things changed.

The dawn of the new millennium brought to Lansing a new way of doing business. If the 90s were focused on finding newer, better ways to let job makers, the free market, moms and dads provide for themselves then the last six-plus years have been about the government doing it for them and charging them for the privilege.

Instead of scaling back, privatizing and empowering the individual we’ve seen the Capitol City’s budget jump by nearly $6 billion and taxes raised by record shattering amounts to pay for the orgy of new spending. (Or pay for some of the new spending. The state currently faces a multi-billion dollar budget deficit.) Then something strange happened.

For the first time in… ever, really… Michigan’s economy became entirely disconnected from the rest of the United States. Between 2003 and 2007 the national economy added nearly 8 million new jobs. In that same period of time here in the Mitten we watched 250,000 jobs disappear.

More telling (and devastating), between the beginning of what was a single-state recession in 2003 and today, Michigan has lost a half-million jobs and seen just as many residents head for the borders. A half-million folks who only a few years ago were Michiganders… aren’t.

They didn’t simply disappear. They didn’t head for Canada or Mexico. They voted with their pocketbooks and their feet and they said ‘any other state but here.’

According to numbers released yesterday, this six-plus year state-led assault on both the free market and the family have produced a 15.2 percent unemployment rate and 740,000 able-bodied residents without a job.

We’ve seen this year in Washington the implementation of the sort of anti-market policy that produced the current mess in Michigan and, not surprisingly, things have gotten dramatically worse.

In that sense, the big-government politicians in Michigan were ahead of the curve and leading the nation again. I guess some things never change. And that you're next.
 
Old July 30th, 2009 #2
Fred
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The main problem for the economic situation in Michigan is very simple.

We allow Asian nations to dump their subsidized or slave labor products in our nation while they do not allow the US to sell products in their nations. "You can't compete against someone who will work for a bowl of rice a day."

Michigan is or was a Manufacturing state. We were the leaders of the world in modern engineering. Both the manufacturing and the engineering has been moving overseas at a rapid rate. We have been "De-Industrialized".

Who did this? Our very own Federal Government.
Who told them to do it? The few elite international Jewish banking families
Why is it being done? Go ask the Rothschild family!

I can tell you all right now. In my area, at least 1/4 of all the whites that want to work are without jobs.
 
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