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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| Economy getting ugly in Michigan |
| 2007-02-23 |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #7 Methinks calls for Detroit/Michegam Auto companies to switch to Hybrid/ALternative-fueled cars isn't cutting it for the locals. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-02-23 22:45 |
| #6 If you listen to Medved, he gets callers from the Detroit area blaming you-know-who. MM points out who's been running Detroit for the past decades and who's in the mansion. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2007-02-23 13:20 |
| #5 Michigan is going to go into a vicious cycle of economic dislocation leading to more unrest and politicians responding with more subsidization of unemployed youth. Michigan, really Metro Detroit) will start to look like Palestine with an elderly population of former UAW members on top. It's not just Granholm. Levin, Stabenow, Dingell, Conyers, Levin Jr. Look for the UP to seceed and join Minnesota. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-02-23 13:09 |
| #4 Me to Jackal (Farmington) - I would never live in S.E. Michigan again - maybe way up north after I retire and do the winters (after deer season of course) down in the Carolinas or GA. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 in Iraq 2007-02-23 12:13 |
| #3 From 1980 through 2000 the unemployment rate in Michigan was typically 2 points less than the national rate. As of Dec 2006, the Michigan rate was about 7% and the national rate about 4.5%. Granholm (her administration is part of the problem but by no means all of it) was reelected in Nov 2006. I'm not familiar with national trends in cosmetic surgery from 2005 to 2006; the article gave the decline in Michigan operations but didn't compare them to a national figure. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-02-23 10:01 |
| #2 Watch Detroit - a lousy city at best for the last couple decades, now with a strong Muslim population and proximity to extremists who might come in through Canada. Prediction: we'll see more jihadi recruits from there as the MI economy predictably tanks. |
| Posted by: occasional observer 2007-02-23 09:08 |
| #1 Pity. I grew up there (Dearborn Heights & Livonia), but will never consider moving back. Granholm is running it into the ground. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2007-02-23 08:41 |