August 21, 2023
Having delivered a killing blow to her own state’s economy through draconian COVID measures, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has come up with a new plan – use state tax resources for an advertising campaign to poach profitable enterprises from her neighbors, where more family friendly and business friendly communities have been growing. What she can’t create, she’ll take.
As Michigan’s Public Radio station WEMU reports, “The Michigan Economic Development Corporation is using state laws protecting abortion and LGBTQ rights as a business attraction tool. The MEDC has placed digital ads in six Republican-led states in an effort to poach businesses and workers with a message on protecting personal rights.”
Gretchen Whitmer
“Personal rights” equals Abortion in this case, and Whitmer’s team wants businesses in Indiana, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, Georgia, and Tennessee, to know that if they don’t like the economic conditions in those places with growing populations (which means customers), they are welcome to venture to the cold business climates and frigid economic conditions of Whitmer’s Michigan. And we’re not talking about the weather.
This attempt at a reversal of fortune comes as Michigan lags in recovery … not surprising when you recall what life with Gretchen was like during the height of COVID. Even the abortion-loving governor admits that her COVID restrictions “don’t make a lot of sense” in hindsight.
As a reminder, “Whitmer banned stores larger than 50,000 square feet from selling paint and home-improvement supplies, as well as advertising for “nonessential” goods. Even operating a motorboat could bring criminal charges, as could traveling to a secondary home. Her lockdown was the longest and most strict in the Midwest,” reported The Center Square.
Whitmer even ordered stores to block access to things needed to garden even in her zeal to keep people locked inside as both plants and the state economy withered away. Her anti-life plan worked as almost nothing grew.
Today in fact, “Michigan loses 14K people a year to other states,” and that’s BEFORE you count those who Whitmer wants to see erased by direct abortion.
What is Whitmer’s solution to declining populations and fleeing businesses? It’s to push death by abortion to her friends and neighbors as a reason for a change of location.
On abortion, Whitmer is an abortion industry favorite. She championed a recent ballot initiative that altered the state’s constitution to allow for radical abortion rights, to block state pro-life measures, and to remove a requirement for adult engagement when setting up abortions for young girls. Whitmer’s love of abortion is so strong, she even VETOED $16 million in support for women because some argued the funds could be used to promote alternatives to abortion.
Since she can’t advertise a thriving economy, Whitmer returns to her old standby – abortion as her favorite thing.
But what’s the pitch exactly: Come to Michigan and add to the population short term as long term we subtract from your family and customer base? That math won’t add up over time.
Don’t look for her to change the topic. “‘Are you talking too much about abortion, and should we be talking about the economy?’” she recalled being asked repeatedly (as reported by The 19th). “That always struck me as just nonsensical, because the most profound decision a woman makes in her lifetime with economic consequences is when and whether to have a baby. And so abortion is part of our economic conversation.”
Given the flagging economy of Michigan, maybe that’s why she wants the subject change. Maybe she finds it easier to kill something than to grow something.
Still, Whitmer promised her abortion activism would mean great things for the state of Michigan.
Maybe she meant the economies of the neighboring states.
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