Granholm has touted keynote speaker Van Jones at the progressive Michigan Summit June 12 in East Lansing, Michigan. With the highest unemployment in the nation, I guess we haven’t had enough of their crap.

http://themichigansummit.org/?page_id=109

The story from the Mackinac Center below.

http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/12841

I was thinking that way a little bit after his 2004 convention speech.

Since he’s played governor for a while, no way do I want him anywhere near the white house.

Each side of the political divide has some questions they don’t want to answer.

The one that dems have no answer for is why their side is so bad about one party rule.

The Republican’s examples of one party rule are Utah and Wyoming. Both are pretty dang free of corruption. Wyoming is arguably the freest state in the nation and one of the best off financially.

The dems examples of one party rule are New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois.

It’s only fair to pay their own way.

then shouldn’t they only help with paperwork and critical things like that, and NOT take any active role in preventing illegal activities?

If it’s good enough for the Arizona-Mexico border, then it should be good enough for the city of the Flint.

The unions with thier ever increasing pay and bennifits demand that have actualy made it more profitable to move to other states let alone other countries, and then the Democrats demanding more and more taxes in order to make up the tax base so the Democrats can maintain thier jobs in Government.
The unions got GM to move elsewhere, eroding the city tax base. The city then raised the taxes on the people.
The higher taxes then forced some people to leave for elsewhere, further lowering the tax base.

Instead of shrinking the City Government in proportion to the population, the city administration raised taxes to compensate for the loss, causing even more families to leave, perpetuating the cycle.
End result, NO MONEY to keep the police force well staffed.

You can now drive down MLK Blvd. day or night and here gunfire.

And the MAIN problem is, these people will still vote in Democrats to try and solve the problem, as they have been duped into thinking that Democrats are the solution, not the problem.

Unfortunately for us here, the state Government has gone the same route.
When Toyota, I think it was, wanted to build an auto factory in Grand Rapids, Granb…holm told them that if you want to play in The Peoples Republic of Michigan, you MUST be union.
They said no thanks, we will go play in Indiana.
The Governor beholden to the unions caused a couple of thousand jobs, and much needed tax revenue, to go elsewhere.

God help us all.

Liberals always try for utopia but end up with hell.

It isn’t that liberals intend for Flint or Detroit to be the model of liberalism, it’s that they don’t know what they don’t know.

Granholm believes as govenor she is expected to have all the answers, and while you can fake that where the outcome doesn’t matter, you can’t where it does, and it takes years for the infestation to rot the foundations of a culture.

Flint needs to solve their own problems. The National Guard is comprised of citizens who generally live productive lives and jobs in MI are hard enough without taking leave to keep Flint from self destruction.

It isn’t Granholm’s fault that Flint is where it is, it started decades ago, but she doesn’t need to add fuel to the fire.

Here’s something to think about with Memorial Day coming up……….Mi seat belt compliance is in the 90%+ range, yet the MI state police are running ads (spending money) warning us citizens that they are going to work overtime to make sure people buckle up. Detroit’s unsolved murder rate is 70%. The state police was not intended to be used for road patrol, but crime solving.

The State Police either needs to be eliminated, or go back to its original intent. Same with Flint., let the police take a seat belt holiday.

You are by far the worst on this blog in posting non-factual information that would be extremely quick to remedy if all you did was look at wikipedia for 2 seconds.

You call Michigan a one-party state and say that their problems over the years have been a direct result of crappy Democrats being solely in charge.

Except the GOP controls the state senate. Im not from Michigan so I dont know for how long the GOP has controlled the state senate, but they definitely controlled it in 2002 as well, when the GOP got total creative direction in redoing the district lines. So pretty sure the GOP has controlled this chamber for nearly a decade.

The state house was recaptured by Democrats in 2006, so starting in 2007 they’ve been in charge. So both a GOP and Dem lead Michigan state house have overseen the disaster that is Michigan. The GOP got the earlier less crappy part, the Dems got utter destruction. Both didnt get the job done.

Granholm has been in charge since 2002, you’re at least 1/3 right.

Calling Michigan a state where the Democratic party has thoroughly mucked up proper governance through too long a period of one-party rule is simply not factual because the Democratic Party doesnt even currently have one-party rule nor has it for a long period of time. And that took 5 minutes on wikipedia to figure out, too.