No Tax-Payer Left Alone
It should come as no surprise that Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the country. Our minimum wage is ranked thirteenth among all fifty states, and our economy has relied heavily on automotive and other industrial companies that have been ravaged by unions and labor legislation.
Jennifer Granholm has just launched a program she calls “no worker left behind;” a name frighteningly similar to the unconstitutional failure known as “no child left behind.”
Her plan calls for two years of free training or community college for displaced workers. So all those people who chose to go to college or receive training for a particular field, not only had to pay for their own college or training; they now have to foot the bill for those who chose not to. Besides that, it will be a failure. To think that you can eliminate unemployment by using federal and state tax dollars to train people for these magic vacancies is absurd.
How long before our government takes complete control of matching employees with employers and training them for the positions?
According to this article from the Detroit News, Granholm also plans to “recommend releasing some older and ‘medically fragile’ inmates deemed not to be a safety threat to the community — and possibly nonviolent drug offenders.” Though I don’t feel that nonviolent drug offenders belong in prison in the first place, and I agree this will save the state a lot of money, how does she plan on finding jobs for all the released inmates. And we can’t forget about the health care for the “medically fragile.”
This will likely end up another never-ending bureaucracy that helps a handful at the expense of many.
September 6th, 2007 at 9:53 am
And now, along with Comerica, we can say good bye to VW. How long before the big 3 (2) follow suit.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
why leave now, when granholm is going to train workers for your company?