I state that is heavy industrial and dependent on the people to produce them has seen the good, for many years and "now" reeping the downside of the same. The comfortablity is over and its time to reinvent Michigan which means reinvent the unions as well. It is what it is!!!!

This provides very good perspective, Dave, and summons the days of "respectable" Republicans in Michigan (was Pres. Ford the last?) instead of the radicals that dominate the party now.

There are problems with Snyder's budget. Taxing pensions while giving big corporations a free ride is wrong, and hasn't proven to work anywhere...though it's the GOP gospel. And it's ironic that the Oscar-winning movie "The King's Voice", made on $19 million and already grossing $300 million box office, was supported by the British Film Office, since Snyder nixed Michigan's. Investment in the arts always generates jobs & spending.

But at least our Governor is talking budget, not trying to break unions, the creators of middle-class America.