Chicago would be a payoff to his local corrupt cronies and Ohio would be payback for letting his army of ACORN crackheads and thugs steal the state.

It could also assure the Dems win Ohio for years to come.

But we will bulldoze its communities at will.

Oh God that’s rich. These morons have been voting for libs for 50 years! – all the while growing poorer and poorer.

marklmail on May 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM

And will continue to do so. That’s even more hilarious.

But with our wonderful governor I’m sure we’ll find that bottom eventually, lol…..

I think we should all remember that these are real people we’re talking about. It’s fine to be flip and funny, but let’s not be callous and cruel…..

Not everyone in Detroit is part of the union, works for GM, or voted for Obama…or whatever other sins you want to accuse them of. But even if they are, do, or did, does that mean they deserve to lose their livelihood?

Dee2008 on May 12, 2009 at 12:34 PM

Jennifer Granholm is a perfect example about what is wrong with Michigan. She spent the first two years of her failed administration blaming the prior administration for all the ills of the world including original sin and telling us that we’d be blown away with her actions. All she did was put up a bunch of dumb “cool city” signs. What she didn’t tell us was that what was blowing away was opportunity, jobs and hope while she did everything in her power to prop up the Democrat machine of organized labor instead of seeking out new opportunity. She killed the state in her attempts to keep the Democrat power base. Even the filthy liar in the White House wasn’t so stupid as putting this vile incompetent woman in his administration. All that being said, my biggest criticism of Granholm is that she was clearly in over her head from the beginning but instead of admitting the truth, she responded with arrogance, denial, and outright lies.

Secondly, thanks to the failed policies of Michigan’s Democrats, the state is losing the productive. I am part of the exodus of those who wanted to stay but ended up leaving because other states are hiring and treat the non-union worker with respect. All Michigan cares about is finding new ways to provide government money to a bunch of semi-skilled union workers that found themselves priced out of competitiveness in the world market. Throw in all the ways Granholm is working to keeping stupid greedy people in homes they had no business of buying and it is easy to see why the competent, productive, and employable are opting out of the death spiral that is Michigan.

Finally, livelihoods are not something that one deserves or not. Employment is based on market needs. The market doesn’t need a bunch of people whose only skills are in the area of manufacturing. The state has all sorts of programs to re-train them into other areas of the economy. You seem to be equating “deserving” with allowing people with no marketable skills to avoid having to grow or adapt to a new reality. They don’t deserve your idea of compassion and neither do the taxpayers that are propping up these individuals.

New Quarters, Louisiana

Half Hell, North Carolina

detroit already looks like some post-apocalyptic wasteland….they should just nuke it and be done with it…

right4life on May 12, 2009 at 7:55 PM

Reminds me of the scene from Mars Attacks where they show Detroit on fire then they show the “after” of Detroit on fire with Martian spaceships.

Seriously, Detroit is DOA. The government doesn’t need to pump any more money into that cesspool. All the talented people have left leaving the welfare culture, the stupid greedy people who bought homes they couldn’t afford, and the union idiots who unthinkingly vote for whatever Democrat they are told to support. I only have sympathy for some of this last group that are otherwise nice people except for voting in criminals like Levin and incompetent morons like Jennifer Granholm. This group deserves some benefit of the doubt but a full dose of scorn for their actions because they, more than anyone, killed the state of Michigan.

Democrats need Michigan too badly in national elections to have the Obama administration take the blame for the departure of American automakers from their ancestral city.

It’s more than that. The UAW and Teacher’s unions ARE the Democrat party machine in Michigan. Democrats can’t hold the state without the the auto union. If GM leaves, the long-squelched voice of reason might rise above the incompetence of Jennifer Granholm and the blatant corruption of Carl Levin and his even more corrupt brother.
The Levin lapdog, Stabenow, would piddle in confusion about wwhat to do without guidance from her masters.

South Chi-town, yo.

bluelightbrigade on May 12, 2009 at 11:30 AM

Holla! (I hate Chicago, for many reasons.)

Elephant Butte, NM (message from the GOP).

They’ve probably all been neutered to the point of living a gutless nearly extinct existence.

thebadoutlaw on May 12, 2009 at 1:20 PM

Ouch, then they all might as well commit suicide.