Whitmer’s auto job race to the bottom

[Thinker101]

Gov. Whitmer wants to be known for creating jobs in Michigan’s auto industry. In October, she proudly declared that “since taking office, we’ve announced 30,000+ auto jobs and counting.” But “announced” is different from “created,” and she’s walking back earlier claims that she has overseen actual job growth.

Worse, she is ignoring that her actions to spend taxpayer money on electric vehicle (EV) production are helping to kill the very auto jobs she claims to care so much about.

In her four years in office, Whitmer has presided over a spate of layoffs from the Big Three automakers: General Motors, Ford and Stellantis.
In August, two months after getting a $100 million state subsidy to hire 3,030 blue-collar workers to build EVs, Ford let go about 3,000 white-collar workers, saying a “significant percentage” would be in Michigan. The state of Michigan paid Ford $100 million in taxpayer dollars to trade white-collar jobs for blue-collar jobs.

Gretchen Whitmer’s auto job race to the bottom

 

[jackflash]

It's called "Towing the party line". Americans are, or should be by now well aware of the limits & co$t to modify America's electrical power grid as the greenies fantasize about. The "electric vehicle movement" is a white elephant @ best & a total disaster @ worst. In the end regarding the political world of profe$$ional politician$ it's all about who can garner the most votes by wooing these various $pecial intere$t groups with what these $pecial intere$t groups desire to hear. The irony is that there still remains the greenie $pecial intere$t groups that are anti- dam(anti-hydro power)/anti-nuke powered electrical generating power plants, both which would be needed for a nation dependent upon all electric powered vehicles for daily transportation.