We are leaving this state and taking our tax money and assets with us!!!

As to the rating… The tax hike was retroactive, and does not reflect the businesses that were leaving. They have now left or are in the process. This will greatly impact the revenue. Not to mention all those families leaving too. Not to mention the 2014 EPA laws, that are crushing. They will send energy prices sky high, sending more business out!!! Half of our refuneries are going to close. That is billions, in revenue…. Staggering job loss, high gas prices. The trickle effect of this, might just be what turns this state back around!

The better question is should Detroit be saved? The answer is no because the same politicians that did this to Detroit are still in charge and will just do it again. Why should the rest of the country have to rescue Detroit from the malfeasance, mismanagement and incompetence of its elected officials?

Rescuing Detroit would set a dangerous precedence by sending the wrong message to states and municipalities with a record of serial fiscal mismanagement.

None of the decisions, experts here say, will be simple, and some wonder whether Detroit can be saved at all. Some 700,000 residents now live in this vast 139-square-mile city that once was home to nearly two million people. That number may fall to close to 600,000 by 2030 before the population begins to rise again, one regional planning group projects. By pushing costs into the future while its population is shrinking, Detroit has left the people least able to pay with the biggest share of its bills.

“Detroit is a microcosm of what’s going on in America, except America can still print money and borrow,” Mr. Boyle said.

I have had the misfortune of running into California HS graduates who couldn’t write a coherent sentence or do simple HS math.

Fortunately in my profession there is no such thing as OJT. It is expected that a young engineer’s engineering degree provided them with the necessary tools to succeed.

Have you noticed that liberal states have the highest taxes, the most unfriendly business environment, the highest number of people on welfare, the highest crime rates, the most illegal immigrants, the most mental patients on the loose, the highest number of sexually transmitted diseases, the highest paid state government workers, the most duplicitous bureaucracies, heavily unionized and the most political corruption? Shall I go on? There’s more…..