She has presided over yet another increase in the budgets of almost all of the state's departments, during a time when the state's residents are losing their jobs and leaving the state in droves. The Corrections payroll is a common target for critics of our governor and rightly so. It is huge and extremely top-heavy. The Departments of Community Health and Human Services (Welfare) dwarf Corrections in the size of their spending and in the size of the increases to this year's budget. Don't you think some cuts could be made, here?

There are few things that make Michigan an attractive state for a new business. Even our vaunted manufacturing worker base can't seem to attract automotive jobs to the home of the Motor City. Auto manufacturers are opening new plants in other states every year. Better climates, lower taxes, and less unionization helps to attract these businesses to Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee. We can't change our climate (even though Al Gore and John McCain think we are) but our government can lower our taxes and make Michigan a "right-to-work" state. Of course just when we need the government to "do the right thing", they'll inevitably do exactly the wrong thing...

Now, as John McCain promises to "do something" about Global Warming, instead of sitting around for six years without action (presumably like G.W. Bush...), we should ask ourselves if doing nothing is not sometimes better than doing the wrong thing. We, in Michigan, already know the answer to that one!