Any working person that votes repuke is an idiot!

[Ruby Romaine]

Should state join race to the bottom?

Michigan's GOP chief says the problem is highly paid workers
Monday, 10, 2004

Republican lawmakers regularly blame Michigan's struggling economy on high taxes and too much regulation. But Betsy DeVos, the flame-throwing mother of all state Republicans, has revealed what
REALLY irks those at the top of the financial food chain.

As first reported by Steven Harmon of the Grand Rapids Press, DeVos says part of our economic funk can be blamed on those pesky Michigan workers making too much money.

"Many, if not most, of the economic problems in Michigan are a result of high wages and a tax and regulatory structure that makes this state uncompetitive," DeVos, the Republican state party chairwoman, said in an April 27 news release on the party's Web site.

http://www.mlive.com/business/aanews/index.ssf?/base/business-2/108420048075660.xml

[AP]

1. Not even fascist-sympathizer and fellow Michigander Henry Ford was so...

...dumb.

Ford believed in paying his employees well so that that there'd be a wealthy middle class who could afford to buy his cars.

Furthermore, some of the greatest institutions in Michigan -- the U of M and Michigan State -- wouldn't exist if there wasn't a wealthy middle class (although U of M is, unfortunately, becoming more and more a place for the upper middle class to got to be able to stay upper middle class, rather than a place for the working class to send their children so that they can become middle class).