I can see some future headlines now... "Gov. Granholm declares Maytag 'Cool Washing Machine'"

"Gov. Granholm declares pidgeon poop 'Cool Fertilizer'"

Then we can also have a monorail running from Upper Peninsula to Lower Peninsula, Upper Peninsula to Mackinac Island to Lower Peninsula.

And how about monorails to ALL OTHER STATES who have an uneployment rate lower than ours?

Have I bankrupted Wechigan yet?

I have 8 children.  Another 3 of the 8 derive their incomes from work out of state 95% of the time and  have to travel and begone for weeks and months depriving their families of their companionship just so they can pay the bills here in MI.  Another is permanently disabled.  And the last actually works and lives in this state.  

My children and Grandchildren are moving away and our fixed income does not allow us to travel to where they are therefore cutting us off in our twilight  years of the joy and companionship of our children and grandchildren.  

Let's try a little test - how many changes in tax and economic policy that have been signed into law or taken place since the Governor took office? One can argue about the merits of them but let's just see what the changes have been since Engler left and Granholm took over. I'll start:

She's a total incompetent.

Besides, she campaigned originally saying she had the answers and would share them once she was elected. Turns out a turnip has more common sense than Granholm.

Then in the most recent campaign she told us we'd be blown away if we elected her. Morons voted for the moron for governor - and that's what we have.

gnu2u: I know it's rough that you're forced by the government to pay people more than sweatshop wages. Maybe Republicans can run on a repeal the minimum wage platform. Sound good? As for the SBT, it's at its lowest rate in years. It's being repealed and the new MBT has reductions in rate for personal property. If Republicans had their way, they would have left the personal property rates as-is. So it sounds like your directing your complaints in the wrong direction. As for requests for donations, what does that have to do with state government?