Michigan for Sale

Everyone is leaving Michigan!! People are giving away their homes, going into foreclosure just to get out of this state as they keep raising taxes and utilities to compensate for the far fewer customers and residents.

Schools are closing and consolidating because people are leaving. This has a snowball effect in the worst way.

They say Michigan will hit bottom before they can begin rebuilding but I say we have been at the bottom for a very long time. Look at the United Van Line reports I have below. A high outbound of people since they first starting watching outbound and inbound traffic.

Michigan is only doing good if the automobile companies like GM, Ford and Chrysler are doing good and guess what? They haven't been doing good for a long time (since late 90's) and it shows. So as they go down, they are taking the state of Michigan with them.

We have a senator that concentrates on education and stresses how important it is. Of course its important but you know what else is important? Having students in the class room, not worrying about your kid getting robbed on the way to school by one of the thousands of homeless people that couldn't afford to move out of Michigan.

If there was ever a time Michigan needed a miracle it's now!

So come you big businesses.... how much are you paying for real estate somewhere else (I guarantee you its cheaper here). How much are you paying for those employees? (I am quite sure you could get a good deal on employees here).

GM pretty much rebuilt Detroit... Does someone want to come in and rebuild Flint? It has a very excellent airport (Bishop) connection to multiple freeways, not to far away from Canada and a much better trip for truck drivers to the west (avoiding the I-94 mess).

Check out these reports from a very big moving company "United Van Lines"

2007
States in the Great Lakes region generally showed an outbound trend, according to United’s records. Ranked No. 1 on the high-outbound list last year, Michigan (67.8%) once again captured the top outbound spot.

2006
Ranked No. 2 on the high-outbound list last year, Michigan (66.0%) moved up a spot to tie for the top outbound state on this year’s list. Michigan saw a 2.1% increase over its 2005 numbers.

2005
Michigan (63.9%) – From the inception of the study, Michigan has been an outbound state.

2004
Michigan (60.9%) reached its highest outbound level since 1982

2003
The states that border Lake Michigan were categorized as “high
outbound”: Illinois (60.1%), Michigan (58.1%), Wisconsin (55.1%), and Indiana,
(61.2%).

2002