In response to Jennifer Granholm's plan to bring in more immigrant workers at the expense of State residents: "no en mi moneda de diez centavos" - Not on my dime, Jennifer Granholm.
According to SperoForum.Com, also confirmed by the Columbus Dispatch, Jennifer Granholm wants to bring in more migrant workers to Michigan, marketing this State's social services programs and benefits to encourage them to come to Michigan. Michigan papers were busy covering how our Governor wants to raise our taxes and must have overlooked Granholm's "other plans" to finish converting the residents to welfare programs under her control.
“Venga a Michigan” (which means “Come to Michigan”) is the official program that intends to fill in the migrant labor shortage in 2006 in Michigan. Officials from the state Department of Labor and Economic Growth visited sites in Texas last week where jobs are scarce for members of the Hispanic community.
The officials showed a video in Spanish to prospective laborers that touted the jobs, housing, education and health services available to them in Michigan. Michigan officials met with some 500 families during their visit to Texas.
In a State that certainly has no shortage of available labor and where jobless claims rose to 357,000 last week according to an article entitled Michigan and Virginia lead nation in jobless claims increases (Detroit News 2-15-2007) why is Michigan's Governor recruiting Texas Migrants to come work in our State and join the State's Social Welfare programs? Bear in mind that its not like our agricultural companies can just up and move out like the rest of the State's employers, why not encourage recruitment of our State's unemployed for stable seasonal employment?
This State already has a 1 in 9 Food Assistance Program, where the State is justifying that there are even more people that qualify who haven't applied. Is it the goal of our State to truely become a "Welfare State?"
I guess it is really easy to see how we are getting such a high deficit when our government continually encourages free for all welfare spending on programs for migrant workers and other groups that shouldn't even qualify for services, while offering to raise taxes for the rest that have the few remaining stable jobs in the State. I only have this to say: "Not on my dime Jennifer Granholm."
Lary Holland is a guest editor at MichiganDemocrat.Net and operates a website at http://www.laryholland.com.
