Governor Granholm gave the State of the State Address last night. It was non-eventful to say the least. Tuning in for one purpose, which was to wait for any hint that our community would thrive once again, the listener was extremely disappointed.
Granholm’s delivery touted jobs she helped develop, past goals she was in the process of achieving, praise for the current national administration and put blame on the old.
Because the development of a new clean coal plant in Rogers City means so much to the area, the fact that the only mention of future energy resources pointed to solar and wind, made it clear that Jennifer Granholm has no intention of helping this northern town.
Some of the excerpts from the SOS:
We set a goal three years ago to enroll 100,000 displaced workers in training that would allow them to fill the in-demand jobs of the new economy.
That short term goal won’t even be realized ten years from now. With the promise of 100,000 jobs three years ago, the Governor points to 36,536 jobs that she has a hand in developing, and 40,000 by 2020.
Job providers are the critical architects and builders of the new Michigan.
Yes, they are, and when a job provider (business) offers jobs, you ought to take them.
It’s a long haul from Muskegon to the Mackinac Bridge, but it’s a great ride.
Yes, it is beautiful, and barren of jobs for the over one million people still here. As each Governor comes in, and goes out, we are here as you smile and speed past.
Over the last 10 years, we’ve lost 78 percent of our auto-manufacturing jobs. We all know the reasons- trade policies that dismantled factories here and built them in Mexico, the auto industry in meltdown, the banking crisis, the mortgage crises, and on top of all that, a severe national recession.
With Granholm at the helm.
It is childish to place blame on the National leadership, acting as though she has no control. She was the one who said our state was going to be a leader in green energy, and then gives no plan on how we are to produce the energy needed to power her glorious electric vehicles.
The entire speech was vapid, but it completely omitted any mention of clean coal technology, a technology mentioned in the Obama Administration’s State of the Union address as a viable way to transform our economy.
But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. And to support that innovation, we will invest fifteen billion dollars a year to develop technologies like wind power and solar power, advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks built right here in America.
That omission speaks volumes.
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Great post. The speech was chock full of grandstanding, rhetoric, and finger pointing; typical of liberal left leadership. She also failed to mention that one of the many reasons we aren't attracting new employers is because they choose not to set up shop in tax hell.
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