The Loudest Cricket

Here in Michigan, manufacturing added 20,000 jobs last month.  Hopefully this will turn into a positive trend.  We’ve got a long way to go, with unemployment sitting at about 13%, but it’s a start.  I expect the rate to go up, initially, as more people start looking for work.  As long as the government doesn’t [...]

The title is intriguingly Orwellian – “Extending unemployment will help create jobs” – and often repeated by the Democrats and their shills in the unions, like this thug, but he doesn’t make the case at all.  It reads like a Nancy Pelosi press conference.  He mentions all the Democratic talking points – green jobs, Bush [...]

Obama was in Michigan yesterday for the groundbreaking of a new plant (why not buy one of the hundreds of empty plants around the state?) that will be making batteries for electric cars.  He spent about $151 million to create about 400 jobs, which works out to be about $377,000 per job.  At that rate, [...]

It’s not the responsibility of the government to pay for job training or job retraining.  Have we become so dependent on entitlements that we believe that Uncle Sam has to pay for everything?  If you want to change careers, you’re going to have to pay for your own retraining.  It will take time, most likely [...]

Um, there shouldn’t be any “high-wage, low-skill jobs.”  Unless unemployment is around 1%, the market cannot afford to pay unskilled laborers $100,000 a year, regardless to what the unions what us to believe.  Sorry, but these are the jobs that are not coming back to Michigan.  Why pay a union worker $50 an hour when [...]

The governor’s announcement in July 2006 that the world’s most popular search engine would bring 1,000 high-paying jobs to the state — and spin off another 1,200 — in the next five years was seen as a giant step in diversifying the state’s economy with the kinds of knowledge-based jobs needed [...]

Why bother working when the government will pay you almost the same to do absolutely nothing.  Sure, you could make an extra $50-$60 a week by finding a job, but that works out to be a couple of bucks an hour.  The government needs to stop extending unemployment benefits and cut off these lazy bums.  [...]

I don’t know how The Detroit News can say that Michigan’s job-creation strategy “has been a plus for the state.”  They cite a study that claims that the Michigan Economic Growth authority, which uses tax breaks to help businesses expand, created 18,000 jobs over 11 years.  Er, that’s not a lot of jobs.  And now [...]

President Barack Obama’s promise to stay “laser focused” on job creation has turned into little more than a side-long glance. Since making the pledge in his February State of the Union address, the president has returned to a nearly nonstop campaign to pass his unpopular government health care takeover and allowed the task of creating [...]

We have the ability to demand that lawmakers do more to ensure that good-paying jobs are created here in the United States.
Or we can sit back and watch the lion’s share of these jobs — which will provide content for cars sold in the United States — go to foreign workers.
Well, Ron, maybe if UAW [...]