“The REAL unemployment rate in Michigan is over 17%”
We have swapped our manufacturing growth seed corn for a cheap bowl of expendable consumer goods.
Yep we sure have. Get rid of most of government regulations, get rid of all the complicated tax codes and crop. welfare. Make the tax code so simple even a 5th grader could do it. Lower tax rates, drill baby drill, and watch our economy explode.
“We have swapped our manufacturing growth seed corn for a cheap bowl of expendable consumer goods.”
The consumer goods aren’t the problem; it’s simply stupid to run any sort of meaningful manufacturing in the USA. If you can start up or move, it’s smart to move.
DOW just announced it is leaving Texas/LA for foreign shores and plants will be allowed to wind down and not be renewed -— because employment (read: Obamacare) and red-tape costs are too high in the USA.