By John Bebow - April 11, 2008
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels got pretty agressive this week in touting his state's advantages over its northern neighbor.
As the Freep's Dawson Bell summarized: "Indiana's economic development agency has been putting up 'Come on Over' billboards near the border and has been running a radio ad campaign for months touting the state's lower business taxes and favorable business climate."
Michigan could help muffle those recruiting tactics by enacting the many reforms and efficiencies recommended last year by Gov. Jennifer Granholm's Emergency Financial Advisory Panel of state finance experts, some of whom feel their work was largely ignored.
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I am deeply afraid Michigan will not be able to address its economic problems until we have a new Governor. Gov Daniels comes to town and was reasonably low key in his presentation. In fact he has been very successful in bringing tens of thousands of new jobs to Indiana.
In response our Governor's spokesperson goes on about how the Indiana Governor came to town in response to Michigan's highly successful "Upper Hand" campaign. Then she went on about all the great victories Michigan has won for new companies.
Come on, what great victories? She didn't even bother to mention them. If she were to compare Indiana's record to Michigan's she would have been "blown away."
I think it's high time our Governor stopped competing with press releases. I am sick and tired of seeing inflated nonsensical MEDC new jobs claims.
They brag about moving jobs from Livonia to Detroit. (That will help
Michigan a lot!)
They inflate actual new jobs won by modeling all the spin off jobs. (i.e. They inflate jobs numbers by 1/3 or so and call it science)
Most recently they announced jobs to be created over the next ten years by a project. (As though anyone can accuratly predict the economy and sccess of a company for ten years)
And there isn't any point to discussing our Governor's desire to develop a more efficient goverment.
Finally lets compare our Governor's latest "economic development strategy" passing a renewable portfolio standard with Governor Daniel's efforts.
Michigan's renewable resources aren't good enough to exploit for the private market so she wants to create a mandatory build out of renewables in Michigan. An economist would call it a government make work project paid for by you and I.
On the other hand Governor Daniels has declined to support a renewable mandate. The result Indiana now has hundreds of wind turbines being constructed and will catapult past Michigan with no government intrusion. I wonder if he used incentives and encouragement of the private sector?
2 years, 8 months, 19 days to go
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