Many Fleeing Michigan En Masse Have Maps of Florida -HB Wants Dibs on the Smart & Skilled Ones!

Late last month, March 24th to be exact, I had a post here

about what seemed clear to me after reading what veteran

ace reporter Fred Dicker had written in the NY Post about

the disastrous economic plans of New York governor

David Patterson.

Titled Expect more New Yorkers in Broward, as NY Post

reveals: GOV PLOTS SECRET TAX HIKE ON RICH

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/expect-more-new-yorkers-in-broward-as.html

I noted in passing how the Patterson plans seemed almost

designed to drive every productive person out of New York

State due to his proposed tax increases of every conceivable

size and shape, surely the wrong kind of diversity.

His plans also seem designed to drive him from office, to boot,

if people actually turn out to vote.

In a similar negative economic story, over the past two days,

the Detroit News has run some terrific stories about the mass

flight out of Michigan of the educated and skilled, with many

folks, not surprisingly, moving to Florida, perhaps hoping

that their Midwestern education and can-do abilities will count

for something in an area where that attitude is always in short

supply.

Per those two stories, Hallandale Beach hereby calls dibs

on the smart and skilled Michigan emigres coming to South

Florida, since we clearly need them more desperately than

anyone else.

Sadly, for reasons that I mention constantly here, the City of

Hallandale Beach and the sclerotic business establishment

here that's tied at the hip to HB City Hall, has the exact

opposite of a can-do spirit.

If anything, the lackadaisical spirit permeating this area

actually recalls nothing so much as the autocratic

heavy-handed Soviet-style of government planning,

with an un-healthy helping of toxic crony capitalism

tossed in just for spite.

Just because they can get away with it.

(I'll have a post over the weekend here about a vote cast

in spite at Wednesday's HB City Commission that you

haven't read or heard about elsewhere.

One that robs residents of something they are entitled to:

access to elected officials on City hall property.

And who's behind it and who let it happen?

Shocker!

Joy Cooper, Mike Good and David Jove.)

What else explains how people with no tangible ties to

this city, and who've brought in some cronies with strong

ties to City Hall in exchange for stock in order to get the

deal done, can get a loan from CRA funds of over $100k,

without actually owning property in the city as the city's

own rules insist, and don't even have their credit checked

by HB City Hall.

Yes, we definitely need many more people with Midwestern

sensibilities and can-do spirit around here to right the sinking

Ship of Fools under the the disastrous reign of Mayor Joy

Cooper and the $422k Man himself, City Manager Mike

Good.

They aren't The Fast and the Furious, rather they are

the autocratic, apathetic and incompetent tag-team that

leads the Rubber Stamp crew of Julian, Ross and

Sanders that make Hallandale Beach's citizen taxpayers

Irate and Furious.

Detroit News

April 2, 2009

Leaving Michigan Behind: Eight-year population exodus staggers state

Outflow of skilled, educated workers crimps Michigan's recovery

Ron French and Mike Wilkinson / The Detroit News

Joe LaCross drives American cars. Always has. Born and raised in the blue-collar suburbs of Detroit, this son of a welder wouldn't dream of rolling past his autoworker neighbors in a Toyota. But not long ago the 38-year-old pulled into the driveway of his Sterling Heights home in a vehicle wreaking even more havoc in his home state.

A moving van.

"I grew up here," said LaCross, as he packed to move to Florida in search of a job. "My family is here. My wife's family is here. I love everything about Michigan.

Rest of story at:

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090402/METRO/904020403/Leaving+Michigan+Behind++Eight-year+population+exodus+staggers+state

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Detroit News

April 3, 2009

Leaving Michigan Behind: Second of a two-day series

Half of university grads flee Michigan

State tries to bolster grad rates, but growing number move away

Ron French / The Detroit News

Chicago -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm must see Emily Zuker in her nightmares.

Young, bright and college-educated, the Michigan Stae University grad got her degree in 2006 and immediately moved to Chicago -- now home to the largest concentration of recent MSU grads in the nation.

"It's just like being back at Michigan State," said Zuker, 25.

Except that it's not in the state of Michigan.

At a time when Granholm is pushing to double the number of college grads, the number of grads leaving the state has doubled instead.

Half of Michigan's college grads now leave the state within a year of graduation, taking with them their diplomas and the talent needed to help rebuild Michigan's economy.

Rest of story at:

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090403/METRO/904030378/1409/METRO/Half+of+university+grads+flee+Michigan