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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worseBy Nick, Section News
I swear, we could talk about a shocking new detail or a major new scandal out of Detroit every day for a year and we still won't have gotten to the bottom of all of the sludge (har) in the lefty Mecca. Today it's the Ivory Tower telling us that a member of the mainstream media has been officially caught up in the mix:
Lewis said Stinger was not at the meeting to report the story. It's unclear why Stinger attended the meeting. The FBI is currently investigating the City Council over the deal as one staff member was recently outed on videotape accepting payoffs. Conyers appears to be at the center of the investigation, her longtime A-Team political consultant Sam Riddle no longer in her employ for unspecified reasons offering up tasty morsels like this, maybe the funniest heartbreaking truism I've read in months... "The only difference between Detroit and Third World nations in terms of corruption is that there are no goats in the streets in Detroit." Ouch. Gotta love how Conyers and off-the-clock members of the liberal "drive-by" media are conducting suspension-worthy business in a church, too, but that's an entirely different discussion for an entirely different time. Like, say, after Jesus comes back and separates the sheep from the goats Himself. Since Sam Riddle mentioned goats. In the meantime it looks like the free market and economic sanity is doing some separating of its own, namely, separating jobs and the prospect of jobs from Michigan. With every major automaker reporting massive sales declines for the month of June Michigan's largest and most important industry looks poised to take another devastating blow. Read on...
German automaker Volkswagen earlier announced plans to bring an auto plant to the United States to help reintroduce the brand to the American consumer and hedge the company against market fluctuations. And since Jennifer Granholm and Michigan democrats insist time and time again that a highly trained workforce is the essential ingredient to an economic recovery it only makes perfect sense that VW come to Michigan. We have the workers. They're available, what with the tens of thousands of recent layoffs at the Big 3. The training is done. They're ready to rock and roll and they know the ins and outs of the industry like the back of their personal Michigan maps.
And sure enough, VW announced that MI was one of three states it was considering. Until this week. The Detroit News reports that the Motor Freaking City will once again be the nerd with taped glasses standing against the gym wall while the other guys get to dance with the pretty girls. And I mean no offense to nerds with taped glasses anywhere. Still, we probably shouldn't be surprised by VW's decision. After all, they just left a few months ago...
"We still are evaluating all three states, and that process continues," said VW spokeswoman Jill Bratina. "We expect a decision in mid-July."
But a source familiar with the site deliberations said Michigan's chances were hindered by the view that Detroit's automakers dominated the region and by concerns about the state's economic difficulties...
"Michigan's under a cloud right now. There's not a lack of people willing to work, but people are scared of the Midwest and Detroit, in particular. There's a gathering storm," Dan Gorrell, president of consulting firm AutoStratagem in Tustin, Calif., said, referring to the difficulties of Detroit's automakers. "The business model is coming apart. Do you want to be anywhere close to where these bad things are happening?" For the record, Tennessee and Alabama are not near VW's customer base on the East and West coasts. Tennessee and Alabama do not have ready-made, built-in, available talent with decades of experience building the best cars in the world. Tennessee and Alabama do not have lefty governor's bribing job-makers to be their friends by paying as much as 42% of their total operating costs. Tennessee and Alabama stand out from Michigan in a couple other ways too. Each of them is a Right-to-Work state and each is still in the running for a new automobile production facility. Michigan? Nope on both counts.
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