Posted on 09/14/2007 6:21:39 AM PDT by Big Labor Hater
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Michigan’s auto-manufacturing jobs are on the decline, and young workers are quickly moving out of the state.
As one Michigan resident put it:
"Every week at my church I hear about two or three more young people moving South or Southwest," Mr. Warren says. "Too bad, because Michigan needs to keep its young people."
Mr. Warren echoes Mark Mix’s call in the Detroit Free Press on Labor Day, stating:
Michigan simply isn't creating enough good jobs to keep its young employees from leaving for more prosperous states.
Michigan, one of 28 forced-unionism states, is home of the auto-industry’s “Big Three” where United Auto Workers (UAW) union officials have a stranglehold over employee free choice. The state has seen its fair share of economic decline and is facing troubles both now and in the long-term.
According to data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, between 1994 and 2004, the number of 25 to 34 year-olds in Michigan fell from 1.46 million to 1.29 million, a stinging decline of 10.6 percent. The data also indicate this decline is largely attributable to the absence of a Right to Work law in Michigan.
To retain its young employees and the energy and creativity they contribute, Michigan needs to create more jobs. And a Right to Work law would guarantee the right of employees to decide for themselves whether or not to join or financially support a union.
Angela Davis, a Michigan resident who intends to pursue a nursing career, started taking classes at a local university after being laid off from Chrysler earlier this year. She plans to return to Alabama, where her father lived before moving to Michigan.
Mrs. Davis hopes to graduate in 2010 and then retrace her father's journey, relocating her family to the South, where unemployment rates are lower than Michigan's 7.2%, the highest in the U.S. "Every time I visit down there it just feels like home," she says.
The whole Southern region of the U.S. is made up entirely of long-time Right to Work states.
Why can't I help but describe liberalism in the same way that Agent Smith (The Matrix) described humanity? :)
It’s actually amazing, the number of transplants to Dixie over the last 10 years.
“Every week at my church I hear about two or three more young people moving South or Southwest,” Mr. Warren says. “Too bad, because Michigan needs to keep its young people.”
That’s O.K. Lots of radical Muslims are taking their place in the tax base.
it’d be better to cut down all the welfare programs.
i’m sick to death of seeing people spending hundreds of dollars at meijer buying steaks and chips and sodas and candy and cookies, and paying on their EBT cards, complaining that the pork rinds didn’t ring up as a food item and they aren’t going to pay the $1 for it so the cashier better fix it. then stopping at the liquor store on the way out and pulling out a wad of cash buying a bunch of beer and liquor, then heading outside to hop into a new buick sitting in a handicap spot.
if the state had 2 brain cells to rub together, it would hire on regulation workers to investigate the spending of welfare money, and start charging these people for the frauds they are committing.
I would suggest that Michigan voters take a basic course in economics. They are committing economic suicide.
Unfortunately, they are also hurting the rest of us.
As an aside, they’ve been leaving the state for decades for that reason. I myself left back in 1983 for that reason. And I was not the first one to get the idea. Most of my highschool acquaintances had already left for greener grass.
I will have to concede, though, that Granholm has greatly sped up the exodus.
Marxism promises pie in the sky. It delivers poverty and misery. The truth is there for all to see.
...a factoid not lost on us North Carolinians. That's why we call the city of Cary a Collection Area for Relocated Yankees.
My son moved to california ( no work here for him ) i considered him to be liberal. He says that the libs in california make him sick....... a good dose of real liberalism cured him fast..now he gets his kicks pissing off the libs he works with!!!
Huh, seems to me Michiganders just REELECTED their DEmocrat masters. Now get back to work! “More bricks, less straw!”
Well, at least Jeff Daniels got some work out of it. We hear those ads all the time here in Georgia. Riiiiight, people here are going to give up low tax and right to work for your union paradise.
Good “fabulous ruins of Detroit” for a vision of the future.
From your lips to God’s ears.
But, but, it WILL work if we can get just get the right person in charge. /s
but of course everyone must realize that communism/socialism has never really been tried in its truest form. so, we cannot discount the whole ideology. hahahaha!!! whatever. stupid libs.
The truth bears repeating.
Here in Ga and NC we call them halfbacks. They flee the north for sunny Florida, find it too hard and strange for their tastes, and move half way back to our locale. Much to our detriment. They are ruining the city of Roswell, GA.
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Does MI have a looming benefits funding shortage for their state/teachers. In NJ we have a $ 5 billion annual budget shortage funded by increased fees, bonds and some cuts. Our biggest problem is that we have not funded our healthcare fund for state worker/teacher retirees since 1994. The state signed a contract with the state workers and teachers that if they worked atleast 25 years and have the age to retire, their health insurance will be 100% covered. No one told them that the state stopped funding the fund since 1994 and now the fund is $ 58 billion short. Unlike the federal government, the state can not print money, and unlike Social Security/Medicare the benefits between the state and the state workers is a legal contract. It must be paid (if union went to state court they will win) backed by court order or the state can declare bankruptcy (state court can block that and mandate the legislature to raise taxes or cut spendings to meet their contractual obligations). I am getting out of NJ as soon as possible.
Your statement is so true and is so right on the money. The very same thing is happening here in Montana. California liberals are fleeing the state where the middle class are having to contend with a third world life style because of policies that the liberals instituted there.
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