For shame Michigan...
Congrats to Romney and his supporters for their win yesterday.
What is sad is the way Romney positioned himself and that people ate it up. The whole auto jobs not coming back to Michigan kerfuffle by McCain was dead on. Instead of lamenting the loss of high paying auto industry jobs for low skilled workers, we better as a state start to figure out how to replace those jobs. Otherwise we can wallow in our 7%+ unemployment indefinitely. Those jobs really are gone and aren't coming back. The UAW and weak-kneed auto executives have made sure of that by pricing the auto industry out of competitiveness through ridiculous salaries for relatively low skilled workers, untenable promises of pensions and health care and union rules that make auto plant jobs into entitlements.
Promising to fight to bring those jobs back is shameless pandering. Recognizing that the world has changed and so must Michigan is the honest approach, but apparently honesty is not what people want to hear.
2 comments:
Romney's Dad was before my time I can only remember back as far as Wm Milliken. When George Romney was Governor of Michigan I was only 6 years old. The reason I remember Milliken so well is he had the PBB contaminated cattle buried in my back yard.
We've only lived up here for about 3 years, so he was way before our time tpp (plus I was born in the 70's)
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