Michigan legislative action thread
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..................
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.
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.