Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 10/14/2014 8:54:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
The level of education necessary to work in an automobile assembly plant and a pharmaceutical plant are way different, except for the menial type jobs. They may expand, but they will have to import people willing to live there with a higher education..................
If only we had colleges in Michigan. Places like MSU, UofM, Wayne State, Western, etc.
If only we had colleges in Michigan that weren’t liberal bastions of indoctrination..........
Like it or not, those colleges do still teach actual needed skills.
One hundred years later it became the powerhouse of General Motors.
The ones we have to thank for Flint's demise are liberal federal policies and democrat politicians.
Uh, Hillsdale College is in Michigan.
But will the grads want to live there? That is the question...............
Unum E Pluribus............
The tech crowd are moving to Detroit so I doubt Flint will be any different.
Despite the other liberal BS being pimped by the big schools they still are providing quality educations for those who really want to learn something useful.
Mahindra opened their North American technical center just outside Ann Arbor to take advantage of newly graduating engineers. They’ve hired something like 112 engineers so far. They’re also opening a factory producing electric scooters geared directly toward sales to college students. Shinola is another company that has a couple of factories in Michigan making high dollar wristwatches and bicycles.
While Rick Snyder is too fixated on tech jobs for my liking, only a fool would turn these companies away.
I really miss the lakes and the UP and all the tall green trees.
Actually this story does bring up an issue I think that conservatives need to do a little soul searching over.
Conservatives need to be smart enough to take credit where we have earned it instead of reacting with an apparent desire to be first to attack no matter what the news is.
For instance, Michelle Obama was in Detroit the other day taking credit for good things that are going on in Detroit. FReepers happily launched into the regular consensus based attack without ever even looking at the situation. Detroit has its obvious problems but GOP policies are making big changes there. We should not be handing credit for those good things to democrats on a silver platter. We should be aggressively claiming our rightful credit and promoting conservative free market ideals.
If I mention that the crime rate in Detroit is in free fall due to open carry, stand your ground laws and a pro self defense police chief, its met with the usual comments about a falling population. The reality is that the population level is flat or rising marginally these days. We should be using Detroit as a 2nd Amendment success story rather than mindless consensus based bashing.
If we are to have any chance of moving America in the direction of free market conservatism we’ve got to use our heads.
Snyder has concentrated pretty heavily on Israel for bringing business here as well.
If I were governor I would have been courting the east coast gun manufacturers as well. When one automotive supplier started to collapse in the Obama economy, they made a change and became the Detroit Gun Works and have a booming business making weapons parts.
Yeah, that Hillsdale churns out nothing but Godless commies
I was raised in Flint. no one wants to live there.
Hillsdale is a lone voice in the wilderness......................
1,486 undergrads according to Wiki.
Compared to 27,897 for Wayne State, 27,979 for U of M, 8,459 for Northwestern, 37,988 for MSU.......................
Siena Heights, GVSU, Alma—three others that aren’t the usual bastion of liberalism. It’s no worse in the mitten than it is in any other state.
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