Granholm Wins in Michigan
What Does that Mean for Us?
The question is, what does that mean for Michigan? Our economy is beyond failing, it's gasping for air at this point. Granholm states that it's because Michigan has relied on the auto industry for so long. The problem is, all of our jobs in almost every sector are going elsewhere.
Michigan does need jobs, and Granholm agrees, but whether she has a plan to get Mihigan back on track that will work is another story.
Now I'm not against Granholm. I voted for her. However, Michigan is in desperate need of education, jobs, health care, and other crucial help...and so far there has been no relief in sight. We watch our jobs get transferred overseas, we watch our auto plants close and there are no jobs left for the people who worked there, we've watched the adult Medicaid program put a freeze on new eligible enrollments, and we wonder when something will turn this all around.
So far, Granholm hasn't done it. She talks the talk, but we've yet to see her walk the walk.
I thik if Michigan had had a strong Republican candidate and not just a talking head she might have had her seat usurped because Michigan is indeed desperate for a change. Granholm was our only real option, considering her opponent.
I'm glad that Granholm won, for that alone. However, I, like other Michiganders and Michiganians, wonder where we're headed from here. They say that once you reach rock bottom there's only one way you can go, and I wonder if we're there yet, or if there is more suffering to come.
At any rate, I congratulate Granholm for running a campaign against DeVos, who many contended was trying to buy the election, and I'm glad that many of us saw through his ploy. I just wonder if Michiganders are going to be in as bad a position tomorrow as they are today...
Hope doesn't fill bellies, after all. Nor can words provide jobs or health care. I hope that Granholm has a good, solid plan for turning Michigan around.
Published by Liz Copeland
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4 Comments
Post a CommentGreg,
The business tax you refer to, the Single Business Tax or SBT, was not instituted by the Granholm administration. It was put in place in 1975. It has survived more than 30 years, through both Democratic and Republican governors and legislatures in Lansing.
To bring back jobs to Michigan, Ms. Granholm is going to have to attack the issues that took the jobs away. Most people think that outsourcing IS the issue....it's not. Outsourcing has been around for years. Companies first outsourced jobs from Urban areas to Rural areas because of lower labor costs. Now they're battling business taxes, export fees, higher labor costs due to minimum wage hikes. The state of Michigan has the single highest business tax of the 50 states. This tax was put into effect by Ms. Granholm, I believe. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on that. Ms. Granholm may have a plan, and I would be anxious to see what it is, but I wont hold my breath.
As far as healthcare goes, under this administration, I think it would be more beneficial to throw weight and support to the National Healthcare Act (HR 676) that is in committee on a Federal Level. Granholm's attempts at health insurance reform aren't making much headway. And if HR 676 gets passed, it would trump state health plans anyway.
In an address to the state of Michigan, Granholm had stated, "In just 5 years, you'll be blown away". My question to that is, blown away in amazement? Or blown away by the hollow sounding wind of a state deserted in favor of one with a better economy. There was no way I would have voted for DeVos, but if there WAS a better Republican candidate, you better believe there would have been no way I was voting for Ms. Granholm.