Granholm defends her leadership, says farewell.

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She should have just stuck with farewell.

http://www.freep.com/article/2010060...-says-farewell

The use of herself and the word leadership in the same sentence is laffable. She led this state to become the worst, economically among the fifty. You can blame others all you want, but nothing was even done to stop the bleeding until her seventh year in office. She wasn't lying though when she said, "In five years, you'll be blown away!" Everything has been blown away, the only thing that remains is the place on the map. This is why lawyers don't make good politicians, I wouldn't be surprised if she has never taken an economics class, which would explain this whole debacle we're in.

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The use of herself and the word leadership in the same sentence is laffable. She led this state to become the worst, economically among the fifty. You can blame others all you want, but nothing was even done to stop the bleeding until her seventh year in office. She wasn't lying though when she said, "In five years, you'll be blown away!" Everything has been blown away, the only thing that remains is the place on the map. This is why lawyers don't make good politicians, I wouldn't be surprised if she has never taken an economics class, which would explain this whole debacle we're in.

She is not the reason that Michigan became stuck in its economic quagmire. Yes, she was charged with steering the ship, but leadership in Michigan has been operating on auto-pilot for several generations now. She's probably been the least complacent of leaders in Michigan in recent memory, which seems to be pretty much evident to everyone but the people who live in Michigan...

Toronto today is Canada’s principal city, a status it wrested from Montreal not that long ago. That’s lesson enough, one with think, about the need for vigilance in continually raising one’s game.

Yet Toronto has been on auto-pilot these past two decades, afflicted by the same complacency that began to jeopardize Detroit in the 1960s. Detroit was then America’s 5th-largest city and controlled more than 80 per cent of the U.S. auto market. There seemed no compelling reason then for Detroit to prepare for a 21st-century “knowledge economy.” One not geared to workers unskilled in engineering, product design and efficient manufacturing methods on which the old Detroit economy was based.

http://www.thestar.com/business/arti...ans-to-toronto