Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 10/25/07 4:20 pm:
To small degrees it's possible, but not to employ upwards of 10,000 people in one plant as it's been. It's just not that easy to encourage new business in a state where people are losing their homes from poor management by our leaders. The government needs to offer incentives and tax breaks to encourage this.

yes the days of the 10,000 employee plant are over .Even the auto industry realizes that . Robotics have replaced the need for large assembly lines.But as you say ;with competent leadership and incentives new industry can find a home in Michigan.

The State has alot going for it . I notice that Jeff Daniels has been making pr.commercials for the State that are very effective. But the State competes with other States and in a global market so the leadership has to adjust to that reality .Workers need to be retrained ,and as you said incentives to entice new businesses needs to be implemented . It doesn't seem that Gov. Granholm gets it if I read the stories about tax increases correctly .

Clarification/Follow-up by Mary_Susan on 10/25/07 8:12 pm:
It is interesting, Wings, that Michael Moore got his start publicizing issues of the *Middle Class* when GM Execs closed plants in Flint Michigan, thereby virtually destroying that town's economy. He made the movie Roger and Me. Really super. :)

That was at the time just after all the jokes about "Michigan, last one out shut off the lights".....

We have a lot of advertising in Chicago for Michigan recreation areas.

YOu know that the sweeping Bush tax cuts for corporations and the super rich have put a bigger burden on the middle classes...

Clarification/Follow-up by purplewings on 10/26/07 2:39 am:
Maybe the corporate tax cuts put some burden on the "Middle Class" but without them, or other incentives, corporations go to other countries and everyone in the USA bears the burden...
don't you think?

Better burden a few than everyone.

Clarification/Follow-up by Mary_Susan on 10/26/07 6:27 pm:
Wings, Everyone of good conscience must protect the American Middle Class....that is what makes a Democracy strong...an educated and large middle class.

Concentration of wealth in the hands of the very few and corporations and a vast underclass of lower class people is dangerous!!!

We have already seen a power grab by the Bush Fascists under the guise of the Republican Party Conservatives.

A large successful middle class is where it is at....they carry the values of society, the morality.....most rich and poor people have no use for ethics and morality!!

It is also important not to follow people who play on one's anger and focus it in the wrong direction.... :)