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2009-07-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2009-07-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 These people are just plain idiots.

A $10 minimum wage just means more people are going to be laid off and more businesses will leave the state.

They are pretty much going to guarantee Michigan goes right back to the stone age.

Hey, I have an idea, how about border counties start having referendums on leaving Michigan and joining their neighbor state ... if the neighbor state will have them.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-07-25 00:21|| 2009-07-25 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 And Here is an advance copy of the second phase of this plan - to be enacted when the first phase start causing unemployment to raise and the democrats need to stablize the economy..... Its called 'Directive 10-289'.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-07-25 00:57|| 2009-07-25 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Michigan wishes for the glory days of 13% unemployment. It was already 15.2% in June. Who knows what it is now?

How about full medical and dental, no copay, too. After all, what's good for GM is good for America. Uhh, forget I said that.

Posted by ed 2009-07-25 01:22|| 2009-07-25 01:22|| Front Page Top

#4 How about unlimited unemployment benefits until they find another job, too?

Posted by gorb 2009-07-25 01:43|| 2009-07-25 01:43|| Front Page Top

#5 My favorite is the 20% cut in utility rates coupled with a simultaneous mandate for utility providers to up their "renewable" portfolios to a minimum of 20% of total production. The mechanisms differ but Michigan is about to do to their utilities what California did a decade ago.

Posted by AzCat 2009-07-25 02:17|| 2009-07-25 02:17|| Front Page Top

#6 A $10 minimum wage makes as much sense as a $7.235 minimum wage. Go for it.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-07-25 07:06|| 2009-07-25 07:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Why stop at $10? Surely $12 would be better. Or $15.

Or let's just salary everyone starting at, oh, $100,000 annually.

Posted by eLarson 2009-07-25 08:38|| 2009-07-25 08:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Or let's just salary everyone starting at, oh, $100,000 annually.

Nah, make it $250,000 so that it'll be subject to the Donks 'crushing' tax on the rich. Then everyone will pay taxes. When you have something to lose, you'll be amazed how many Trunks you could register.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-25 09:44|| 2009-07-25 09:44|| Front Page Top

#9 I hope they do it all. Michigan will collapse.

No Foreclosures? Then you get no mortgages because nobody is willing to lend. You also get bank failures because they are not getting any money and are stuck with the assets that are non-performing.

Min Wage $10? Go for it, they will have to pass the cost along, so here comes push inflation.

Mandatory insurance or else a fine? Do it! That will force medium businesses to cut back jobs, and force small businesses completely out of business. Employment and the economy will utterly collapse without small business.

Raise unemployment benefits and eligibility? Do it - you'll eventually bankrupt the state because there will be far too many collecting UI (see above), and fewer businesses paying into it (see above again). SO you'll have to raise taxes which will drive even more businesses out of the state (and they are already on the far side of the laffer curve).

Michigan will collapse. Utterly and completely. And it will all be the fault of the liberals and Dems. And it all re3sts with stupid black peopel who stay on the plantation and vote mindlessly for a "D" as their massah without any realization of the consequences of their actions. They just blame it all on the white man.

The destruction of Michigan will be the ultimate payoff of black racist/slave mentality combined with massive ignorance and porch-nigga servitude (always vote D and do not think, they been good to us), and the liberals willingness to treat people like chattel and completely ignore economic reality.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-25 09:56|| 2009-07-25 09:56|| Front Page Top

#10 "And it all re3sts with stupid black peopel who stay on the plantation and vote mindlessly for a "D" as their massah without any realization of the consequences of their actions."

OS, let's not also forget that many of the Union voters also add to this group. A great portion of whom like to hunt each Nov 15 and then vote for anti-gun candidates during the elections.

My home state is a pathetic joke. Sad thing is, the potential for the state to do great things industrially is still strong if the right leadership was installed. Unfortunately we will have to weather the storm of Obomonautism for another couple yrs and then it will prolly take a good decade to un-f*ck what he wrought.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-07-25 13:17|| 2009-07-25 13:17|| Front Page Top

#11 I guess I'll pack up and move to Kalamazoo to take advantage of their generous new minimum wage! (I'm sure a job like that will be open Real Soon Now.)

Posted by eLarson 2009-07-25 13:18|| 2009-07-25 13:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Oregon has a long tradition of having a higher minimum wage than the feds, and we have a corresponding higher unemployment rate to go with it.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-07-25 13:46|| 2009-07-25 13:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Screw the job eLarson. Get yourself the $387 a week unemployment. It comes out to more than $10/hr after taxes.

Posted by ed 2009-07-25 13:49|| 2009-07-25 13:49|| Front Page Top

#14 Ah MI the workers paradise. Even more so when you don't/can't work.

Posted by regular joe 2009-07-25 14:35|| 2009-07-25 14:35|| Front Page Top

#15 Geniuses at Work:

Under the leadership of Governor Jennifer Granholm, Michigan has sought to reinvent itself from an industrial powerhouse to a center of the creative economy. For much of her first term, Granholm focused on such inanities as promoting a cool cities program, following the notion that creating places for the terminally hip would help turn around her states economy.

Yet in the end, Michigan stands at the worst end of almost every calculator, with the highest unemployment and rates of out-migration, and the worst cities for business. Its per capita income, which was 16th in the nation shortly before Granholm ascended as governor, has now dropped to 33rd, the lowest since the federal government has been keeping records.

Detroit now suffers a 22 percent unemployment rate, the highest of any major city. Nearly one in three residents is on food stamps. But the pain goes well beyond Motor City. Altogether Michigan communities account for a remarkable six of the nations ten worst job markets, according to the most recent ForbesNew Geography survey.

Posted by Pappy 2009-07-25 14:37|| 2009-07-25 14:37|| Front Page Top

#16 but Jeff Daniels says Michigan is the place for bizniss and hi-techy. He wouldn't be lying, would he? Governor Mole, maybe, but an actor?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-25 14:44|| 2009-07-25 14:44|| Front Page Top

#17 Michigan is just a preview of things to come. Social and economic tinkering and plain old crime and corruption have bankrupted Michigan. I don't see any promise of it ever coming back.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-07-25 18:05|| 2009-07-25 18:05|| Front Page Top

#18 Not only that, Frank G, it's a vacation paradise according to all the ads I've been seeing here! (Ok, to be fair, I'm certain parts of it are beautiful, but to get to them you gotta go through some scary areas first....)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-07-25 22:16|| 2009-07-25 22:16|| Front Page Top

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