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.
The biggest problem with Michigan is one county—Wayne County (city of Detroit)—literally bringing down the entire state. Subtract this area and Michigan could actually be reasonably healthy economically.
About 43% of the people in this state have brains; the other 57% are sponges, either soaking up productive dollars or socialist propaganda.
Many downtowns in the north resemble movie sets for a depression era film, buildings boarded up, falling down. The real estate market is sinking fast and many people trying to sell are taking a bath. Vibrant small businesses are leaving and being replaced by second-hand stores and consignment craft stores. And I believe unemployment is 7.9%, not 7.2%.
My prediction - The northern counties will see 20 to 40% unemployment in 2008. Granholm the commie is strip mining cash from productive counties and giving it to her political hacks in Detroit, Lansing, Saginaw, etc.
Michigan - What America will be if hillary is elected.
Just HAD to get that in, didncha???? I wont be able to even be in the same room with hubby if that happens!!! This morning he told his son to take off his MI t-shirt and said “You cant be seen walking around in that thing right now!
We get those ads here in Louisiana too.The ironic thing about it is that a number of people from Michigan came down here after the hurricane seeking work. I’m sure those ads work in the South.Right.
The term is Locust Liberals. They are in the process of ruining Colorado and New Hampshire to name a few
Yes, but it’s the promise that counts.
Yes, there are plenty of sociopaths who promise utopia and plenty of morons who believe thim.
“Unfortunately, too many of those who have fled the liberal nonsense of the north continue to vote the same way when they get down here and will bring the liberal nightmare here next.”
Hopefully all the libs WILL leave the state, leaving us in the Up North Red Counties to elect a proper government and get Michigan back on its feet! I agree that our biggest problem IS Wayne County. Maybe we can give it to Ontario, and throw the Governess in for good measure!
Does anybody have a link to the WSJ article cited in the blog? I couldn’t find it.
We have a young couple of halfbacks just across the street from us here in NC.
Thanks, I just found it 10 seconds after I was asking for it.
And we here in the south are still relishing the Appalachian State win, and will be for quite a while. I hear Appalachian State merchandise is selling like hot cakes in Columbus, Ohio these days.
Cary= City Away from Redneck Yokels! ;-)
FL is great if you make your money elsewhere and go there to die. If you move their when you are younger, you find that the wages s-ck, the real estate driven up by the aformentioned retirees/semiretirees, the weather suffocatingly hot, and that many of your neighbors truly our the flotsam and jetsam of humanity (sex offenders, ex-cons, ditzy divorcees, and other people seeking “a new start in life”). Nevada is similar.
Ah yes...but then, so is Manhattan.
Western Michigan is doing fine.
Too bad we aren’t our own state.
Actions speak louder than words. This is so telling. Just look at what happens . . .people move for better jobs, schools, safety, taxes, etc.
The trend is from liberal cities to conservative suburbs, liberal states to conservative states. Liberal schools to conservative schools. Public schools to private schools.
I ask my liberal pals, if you hate conservatives so much, why do you choose to live in conservative areas? They’ll reply “better schools” or “it’s safer.” They just won’t admit their disconnect.
But to me, it tells everything.
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