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2009-07-31 Economy

Michigan struggles to help out its jobless

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Posted by Fred 2009-07-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 To handle the load, the state added 400 unemployment workers

The obvious solution is to hire more unemployed workers to process unemployment claims. Two birds with one stone, eh?

Posted by SteveS 2009-07-31 01:00|| 2009-07-31 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Ronald Reagan

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-07-31 07:23|| 2009-07-31 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Might we also use the yardstick of prison populations and sentencing to measure the success of our courts and legal systems Bright Pebbles?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-07-31 07:31|| 2009-07-31 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 "This is not a normal situation"

Actually, in Michigan, it is. You have the worst give-away welfare coupled with massive union bennies and high taxes that are chasing business out, so what did you expect when you kept voting in Democrats with those policies?

A majority of people in Michigan are nearly as stupid as people in Minnesota (Sen Franken!?!?!!!), and twice as self destructive.

Michigan: an abject lesson in what happens when you put into power the culture of the looters.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-31 07:36|| 2009-07-31 07:36|| Front Page Top

#5 and yes, I *meant* abject, not object, lesson (though both apply)

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-31 07:37|| 2009-07-31 07:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Cash for Clunkers program is out of cash. Perhaps the one 'stimulus' program that was actually doing some stimulating - Depending on how much was skimmed for 'overhead' it should have been good for around one quarter million units of new car sales. (Of course it could have been 90% overhead and 25,000 car sales.) Looks like it must not have been Detroit iron though.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-07-31 09:14|| 2009-07-31 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 "making environmental testing equipment" sounds like one of those green jobs that are so important to the new economy.

Posted by bman">bman 2009-07-31 10:55|| 2009-07-31 10:55|| Front Page Top

#8 A majority of people in Michigan are nearly as stupid as people in Minnesota, and twice as self destructive.

Hey, I resemble that remark! Interestingly enough, the stupidity is not evenly distributed. If you look at the 2008 election results by county for Michigan, you see a clear cut divide between rural Republican and urban Democrat. Or farmers vs union members and minorities, if you will. That big blue area down in the lower right is Detroit - Michigan's poster child for bad government for the last half century.

A lot of Michigan's social welfare and benefits were set up during the decades when the auto industry was thriving and state was booming. Little adaptation has taken place - other than deciding to plow up some of the paved roads and putting a tax on the business tax - because no pols want to play the Bad Guy and it is always easier to kick the can a little further down the road.

Posted by SteveS 2009-07-31 12:29|| 2009-07-31 12:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Added Lillie Yarborough, 62, of Detroit, who lost her job as a customer service representative at AAA Michigan: "I could never get through."

Interestingly enough, even AAA is retrenching. And not just in Michigan.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-07-31 13:49|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-07-31 13:49|| Front Page Top

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