Gov. Jennifer Granholm slow to show she’s engaged in the Michigan budget process
Since February, when she introduced her new budget, the governor has been playing defense. As the state’s economy continued to tank and it was clear her initial spending plan was out of date, she took no visible steps to revamp it.
Meanwhile, her arch-rival, Sen. Mike Bishop, the GOP leader, passed a budget of his own and sent the $1.2 billion in state service cuts to the Michigan House of Representatives.
The governor watched.
http://www.pressandguide.com/articles/2009/10/10/opinion/doc4ad14a854a1ea165187849.txt
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Four years ago, Jennifer M. Granholm set out to remake her state, which took an exceptional walloping with the decline of the auto industry, as a pioneer in creating environmentally friendly jobs. Today, however, jobs are still disappearing much faster than she can create them, raising questions about how long it will take Michigan and other hard-hit states to find new industries to employ their workers.
Since taking office in 2003, Granholm has created 163,300 positions, her office says. She expects that a recent infusion of more than $1 billion from the Obama administration aimed at nurturing car battery and electric-vehicle projects will generate 40,000 more positions by 2020.
In the past decade, however, as the auto industry has grown smaller, Michigan has lost 870,000 jobs — about 632,000 of them during Granholm’s tenure. The number is expected to reach 1 million by late next year, the end of her term.
“We have great bones as a state,” she says. “We know how to build stuff. We will build on that strength and diversify this economy. We will lead the nation in creating jobs in renewable energy. We’re not going to be viewed as Luddites.”
SHE IS GOING TO CREATE ‘GREEN JOBS’!!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/10/05/ST2009100504040.html
I watched her today. Her idea is to give more handouts,screw that people need jobs not handouts.
How, exactly, did she do that?