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
(Excerpt) Read more at briefingroom.thehill.com ...
Michigan ping
Not to worry, MI will still vote dem all the way.
Was I fast enough to be the first???
It would have been worse if the new GM plants went to Tennessee, as they should have on economic grounds.
Well you wondered what Cash For Clunkers was all about?? ....Maybe they will bulldoze the place like Rush said.....LOL
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.
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.
Their Messiah has turned into Satan.
If you look closely at the picture, you can see ozero’s green shoots.
McCotter is a good man. Liberalism, unions,, open-borders and Democrats have destroyed MI and CA.
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
Ain't gonna matter. Nobody gonna buy no gubbermint motorcars anyhow.
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.
Would have these automakers have shed this same number of jobs if they had gone through a normal bankruptcy without any federal “aid”?
Their Islamists have it in a death grip already, anyway.
No mo town
The DNC will be sending someone out to kick them in the acorns while they're down so they'll vote twice or thrice.
Was it Rush who reported that they were repaving roads in Motown?
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