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Congressman: Michigan could hit 20% jobless thanks to Obama
Thehill.com ^ | July 10, 2009 | Michael O'Brien

Posted on 07/10/2009 8:14:30 PM PDT by Leisler

Michigan's unemployment rate could hit as high as 20 percent with the Obama administrationto blame, one Michigan congressman warned Friday.

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) said that Michigan's unemployment — already the highest in the country at 14.1 percent — could go even higher as General Motors and Chrysler continue to shed jobs after their government-financed bankruptcies.

"Sadly, we've seen estimates, because of the radical restructuring that the auto task force demanded, that this year, Michigan wind up over 20 percent

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 0bamasfault; automakers; bush; congress; fed; generalmotors; layoffs; mccotter; obama; obamasfault; theobamadepression
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1 posted on 07/10/2009 8:14:30 PM PDT by Leisler
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To: grellis; cripplecreek; AuntB; Beagle8U

Michigan ping


2 posted on 07/10/2009 8:15:32 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The McCain/Palin ticket was like a Kangaroo, stronger on the bottom than at the top)
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To: Leisler

Not to worry, MI will still vote dem all the way.


3 posted on 07/10/2009 8:15:41 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: Leisler
How's all that "Hope" and "Change" working out for you?

Was I fast enough to be the first???

4 posted on 07/10/2009 8:15:44 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Leisler

TELL BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA THAT HE IS FULL OF IT!

5 posted on 07/10/2009 8:16:25 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Leisler

It would have been worse if the new GM plants went to Tennessee, as they should have on economic grounds.


6 posted on 07/10/2009 8:17:08 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: Leisler

Well you wondered what Cash For Clunkers was all about?? ....Maybe they will bulldoze the place like Rush said.....LOL


7 posted on 07/10/2009 8:18:53 PM PDT by jakerobins ( NO)
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To: Leisler

But just think of how much cleaner the air is going to be. The trees will be a lot greener. The dirt will be a lot...dirtier. The New “Green” Michigan.


8 posted on 07/10/2009 8:18:53 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out?)
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To: Leisler

All those people will get their jobs back when Americans flock to buy little green putt-putt cars because Ubama has raised the price of gas to $5 a gallon. It’s all part of the master plan. Be patient.


9 posted on 07/10/2009 8:21:54 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Clintonfatigued

Their Messiah has turned into Satan.


10 posted on 07/10/2009 8:22:34 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Leisler

If you look closely at the picture, you can see ozero’s green shoots.


11 posted on 07/10/2009 8:24:50 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Cut n Shoot Texas: Mayberry for rednecks)
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To: Leisler

McCotter is a good man. Liberalism, unions,, open-borders and Democrats have destroyed MI and CA.


12 posted on 07/10/2009 8:24:56 PM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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To: Leisler

For 25 out of the 26 past months, Michigan has had the highest unemployment rate of the 50 U.S. states, according to Labor Department statistics,the Rockefeller Institute reporting last month that Michigan’s income tax revenue in the first quarter of the year was down 34.4 percent from the same time last year.

Detroit’s school district is exploring whether filing for bankruptcy is a viable option


13 posted on 07/10/2009 8:25:09 PM PDT by Leisler ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."~G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
It would have been worse if the new GM plants went to Tennessee, as they should have on economic grounds.

Ain't gonna matter. Nobody gonna buy no gubbermint motorcars anyhow.

14 posted on 07/10/2009 8:26:41 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Leisler

He can send Granholm back to MI to ‘splain to the folks how all the big Dem porkulus plan isn’t going to pay their mortgage and put gas in their car.


15 posted on 07/10/2009 8:28:52 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Leisler

Would have these automakers have shed this same number of jobs if they had gone through a normal bankruptcy without any federal “aid”?


16 posted on 07/10/2009 8:30:00 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: Leisler
I heard the governor is entertaining an offer from Saudi Arabia to buy the whole state.

Their Islamists have it in a death grip already, anyway.

17 posted on 07/10/2009 8:30:54 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (E)
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To: Leisler

No mo town


18 posted on 07/10/2009 8:31:37 PM PDT by digger48
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To: sinanju
Not to worry, MI will still vote dem all the way.

The DNC will be sending someone out to kick them in the acorns while they're down so they'll vote twice or thrice.

19 posted on 07/10/2009 8:31:52 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot (I saw manbearpig and all I got was this lousy tagline.)
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To: jakerobins

Was it Rush who reported that they were repaving roads in Motown?


20 posted on 07/10/2009 8:36:34 PM PDT by incredulous joe ("No road is too long with good company" - Turkish Proverb)
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