“Things will improve soon. Jeff Daniels in his ads sponsored by the Michigan Economic Development Commission talks about how wonderful Michigan is for repertory theaters. Michigan taxes productive businesses in order to fund repertory theatres. At some point there will be one on every street corner! So Michigan looses a thousand jobs here and a thousand jobs there. They will all be replaced by actors flooding in from throughout the nation!”
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They’re appealing to the “creative class.” Now all that’s needed is some bike paths and Starbucks and they’ll all be farting through silk as the russians say.
Doesnt Michael Moore live in Michigan?
Striking parallel to parts of the NE states.
If you take a drive up the I-95 corridor you will see a LOT of closed and deserted factories, some of which are being converted to multi housing units and a lot of silly little cottage industries all advertising such as mini vineyards and eco-friendly green soap.
And lousy infrastructure and sky high taxes, on a shrinking tax base.
A great industrial base for a great nation?