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Snippet: The former Michigan governor whose leadership oversaw a severe economic downturn, skyrocketing unemployment, Detroit's emerging bankruptcy, and the meltdown of the automotive industry, is now a professor specializing in job growth.
This fall, Michigan's former Democratic Gov. Jennifer Mulhern Granholm is teaching a graduate course focused on "creating jobs through better government policies," the class description states, adding "it is designed to help to launch the American Jobs Project at UC Berkeley."
Yet as governor from 2003 to 2011, Michigan's unemployment rate soared from 6.6 percent at the beginning of Granholm's term up to 14.2 percent in 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/18918/
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I didn't look at all the numbers but I wonder what the employment numbers would look like if Detroit and the auto industry can be taken out completely. That city and the auto industry is like a black hole economically. Chevy still makes a ton of junk and so does Chrysler. Ford seems to be the only U.S. automaker that produces a quality product throughout it's line.
They like it that way. The most capable, righteous and the most caring for the good of the public will be the ones who find funding impossible. Not only that being honest and reputable they would never trade money or policy for votes. Nobody would support them cause people in general vote for whoever is going to give them most.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
Losers are in the private sector too. Some try to convince unsuspecting buyers that special stones make CDs sound better, or that Decca's sound better than London's.
Edits: 08/23/14
A UC Berkely type with 8 years at the helm of an already heavily Socialist economy can't get it done?
Horrors!
The Government's fast-tracking/investment of Semi conductors, GPS, lasers, the "bomb," refinements to the Wright Bro's planes, and the Internet did indeed set the stage for America's glory days.In other words, ya didn't build it yerself.
Edits: 08/23/14
charged with the protection of women's rights, among other things. Yeah, the world is upside down...
...would you nominate?
Chainsaw Al Dunlap?
Neutron Jack Welch?
Nt
Study hard, pay CLOSE attention to what he has to say, teach and advise, explore
what he has accomplished professionally in the past and then do the opposite.
Should work.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
The question then becomes: How effective was she in lowering Michigan's unemployment from 2003-2007 when the U.S. was enjoying a relatively robust economy? Answer: Not very; as the links demonstrate.
US Unemployment by Year: http://www.multpl.com/unemployment/table
US Real GDP by Year: http: //www.multpl.com/us-gdp-inflation-adjusted/table
...is that your attempt at irony is predicated on MI's unemployment #s being the result of the policies of one person/administration. The reality is that MI has had problems in this area for years if not decades. It's ingrained, cultural and to some degree regional/climatic and largely out of the hands of leadership.I'm sure you know Mi is now a "right to work" state. I don't believe this status has had any material effect on job creation in the state...too many other more desirable places to do business from a huge number of perspectives.
Later!
Edits: 08/22/14
Michigan was a basket case long before 2008, and still is. Similar to Illinois and California.I live in the Dallas area, and had occasion to go downtown recently. Holy camoly - construction cranes everywhere!
BTW, did you know that the State bird of Texas is the Construction Crane?
I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could!
:)
Edits: 08/22/14
... governor Granholm wasn't solely (or even significantly) responsible for MI's high unemployment rate in 2009.
a true Free Market, LOL.
But we're getting dangerously close to Po'litics here, which is (thankfully) forbotten.
One learns from one's mistakes.
Smile
Sox
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