“Well i do find that engler and bush do have some hand in our crappy situation we are in. I know engler did as much as he can to cut most of our programs and spend as much as he can. It is hard to follow in the shoes of a usless leader for another pretty usless one. Am i sticking up for Jenny nope. But am i placing all this on her, no i am not.â€
Randy,
The problem is this – most of what engler did was to improve the situation in the state to make it more attractive to businesses to come here. He cut back on Welfare (welfare reform) and he actually had a real surplus. Most of the economist that I have read said that out of his administration, the state was moving forward and if it continued it would be a lot stronger than most. U of M who was paid to do a study on Michigan’s economy, sided with Granholm on the tax increases.
I am trying to figure out what programs were cut except welfare and I can’t blame Engler for that because I would have done the same thing – a 35 year old single white male living at his parents home should not have gotten even considered for any assistance but they got a lot of money out of the system. Now Granholm did increase spending for programs like the Auto Worker education assistance program and laptops for schools – neither has done a thing for the state, oh she did bring into the state zero real jobs.
“The economy sucks, the automakers are taking a dive, housing market is the worst in the US. What can you do?â€
Well Randy think about this, in 2000 the state wasn’t all that bad. We didn’t have the housing market scams, the automakers had the same issues as they have always had but in other states they pulled through by cutting spending and making the state more attractive for a business to be started in or move here.
“One idea i came up with that is udderly insane. Have the autoworkers take pride in their work and make a better product. Better products = More sales. More sales = More jobs. This worked in Canada why not here?â€
The problem with that idea, and it is a very good one is we do not derive our entire state economy off the automobile manufacturing like we did twenty years ago, it is a small amount of it now. It does not matter what deal is made with the auto makers and the UAW, it does not matter what the quality of the cars are, the fact is that jobs are generated by companies who do not move off shore but come to the state. The fact is we are seeing a reduction in manufacturing which has nothing to do with auto companies inability to be competitive in the home market from poor quality of the product or health care cost or the state's economical shape but it comes from the lack of a product to sell and the consumer wanting it. Even if they would make a product to sell, the influx of jobs would be minimal in the state because they would have to continue their move to Mexico or China.
I read the interview that she did this past weekend and the one thing that stands out in the transcript was she was blaming us for the problems and not caring for the common good of the people. The last time I checked, I wasn’t doing too well compared to some welfare recipients I see in line at Krogers, they have nice new clothes and driving a rather nice car which is 7 years newer than mine, so what is the common good here? By the by, I wasn’t the only one who caught jenny’s slip there, apparently she is on the outs with others who supported her and the comments I have run across are just plain mean but well deserved.
The truth is Randy, we as the people of the state need to get smart about what is really going on in Lansing, like the state police HQ scam, the first husband’s state paid staff and transportation and putting political hacks on the payroll after they lost an election. We need to get a grip on how to really improve the state and it starts with getting rid of her and Levin.
