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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    Just another Monday in John Cherry's Michigan... Drat!


    By Nick, Section News
    Posted on Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 07:00:48 AM EST
    Tags: Cherry, 2010, unemployment, police, Detroit, social justice (all tags)

    A brand new week and the same old news. John Cherry continues to travel the state, hosting faux "town hall" meetings, pretending to talk about an economy that has imploded on his watch to such a staggering degree it makes national recession statistics seem something to aspire to.  'If ONLY we were ONLY as bad off as the rest of the nation... which is going through the worst economic turmoil since the Carter administration.'

    Alas, we're not that lucky.  We're stuck for the next year and a half with Jennifer Granholm and John Cherry's particular brand of executive performance and if we're not on our toes, tossing everything we've got behind an alternative... ANY freaking alternative this election cycle, we'll be getting another four years of stories like these...

    The Detroit News really knows how to be an encouragement on a Monday morning as it quantifies factory job losses during the Granholm-Cherry administration's control of Lansing, and it's a staggering number to boot.  Try 950,000.  Between late 2000 and 2010 almost 1 million blue collar jobs are expected to have disappeared.  

    The national recession, folks in other states remember better than us, actually started in 2007.  In other words, Lansing had this state in the ICU before the rest of the Country caught a sniffle.

    Read on...

    Despite the staggering loss of manufacturing jobs, (U of M economists) predict the biggest hit in the coming year actually will come outside factories. Three sectors will make up the bulk of the losses: retail and activities dependent on manufacturing (such as wholesale trade and trucking), professional and business services, and construction, which suffered under the national homebuilding bust, but may get a boost from federal stimulus money for roads and other public projects.

    Of course, if we're talking Democratic leadership we'd be remiss not to mention the headlines coming out of the Governor's first Michigan "home" over in Wayne County.  Because they care.  Jennifer Granholm and John Cherry care.  Really. Promise.

    The Ivory Tower reports, though, that City Democrats and the bureaucrats they've appointed haven't had the stones to make any significant change in a police department that was cited, right or wrong, in 2003 for some pretty nasty violations.

    ...The legal agreements city officials signed in 2003 with the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division over questionable shootings of civilians, illegal dragnet arrests and inhumane treatment of prisoners, have remained unfulfilled for six years with no end in sight.

    "Where we are is unsatisfactory," Detroit Deputy Mayor Saul Green said last week. "Mayor Bing recognizes that and we're not going to accept it."

    Since signing the so-called consent decrees in 2003, only 73 of the 203 provisions -- 36% -- have been met, according to the last review, released in February. The next report is due this week and little improvement is expected.

    And isn't that encouraging.  So much for the importance of "social justice," eh?

    Meanwhile, an Associated Press headline out of Saginaw, Michigan proclaims "Michigan food banks struggle to feed hungry children."  Not because folks aren't making donations and not because doors are being closed.  Because there are suddenly a lot more hungry children in a state with an unemployment rate approaching 20 percent.  

    An economy in collapse, the state's largest police department (in a 100% Dem city) from the Governor's 'home town' in violation of 64 percent of federal justice provisions and kids going hungry.  

    Something tells me we won't see that on any of his campaign billboards but as of July 13, 2009, that is undeniably and unavoidably John Cherry's Michigan.  And January 2011 can't get here soon enough.

    < The Weekend in the Sphere | Monday in the Sphere: July 13 >


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    It isn't. (none / 0) (#2)
    by Nick on Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 09:04:52 AM EST


    What's the Real Number? (none / 0) (#3)
    by DMOnline on Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 02:21:47 PM EST
    I wonder just how high the unemployment rate would be in MI if we hadn't seen such an exodus of Michiganders fleeing the state to find work elsewhere?

    If the real unemployment rate is at 20% now, it'd probably be closer to 25% or higher had all those folks not left the state to find gainful employment in other parts of our Union.

    So couple the loss of those potential tax payers (at least paying the state sales tax on stuff) along with the loss in income tax revenue from the unemployed and the loss in real estate taxes due to foreclosures and it's no wonder they have a gaping hole in the budget.

    At noon, I heard the state budget director (I think that's who they quoted) saying, "we can't cut our way to a balanced budget."  Nope.  Can't do that.  But by god we can spike the sales tax up on all services.

    That's always the answer with Democrats. Tax, tax, tax your way to prosperity.  Too bad only the opposite happens when such policies are enacted.

    DCuz
    www.RightCuz.com



    The Detroit News tried to obfuscate the 950k jobs (none / 0) (#4)
    by Theblogprof on Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 05:46:32 PM EST
    "Try 950,000.  Between late 2000 and 2010"

    I pointed this out on my blog, but do you wonder why the News went all the way back to 2000 rather than stopping at 2003? I opined that it was to give Granholm/Cherry some cover is the article didn't delineate how many of those 950,000 jobs were lost under Granholm. Thus, it pulls Engler's administration in with the current disaster, albeit implicitly. Be that as it may, it was still a dishonest tact.

    • I think they by Nick, 07/14/2009 06:52:23 AM EST (none / 0)
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