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What is with the lie that Clinton is the only one in the Michigan Democratic primary

I am a registered Republican, but I will be voting Democratic if Mitt wins.

Meet the new boss,same as the old boss and the smell of Rome in the morning.

Recession is a technical economic term, Romney is smart enough to know that. We are probably technically not in a recession but the ecomony is clearly slowing and people are hurting. I believe Romney has the ability to turn the economy around but there is no magic pill and I think this will be slow.

Will the ruling class continue to govern the US regardless of which political party wins?

Today in the USA only 2% of the households own 80% of the world's assets. Within this small elite, a fraction embedded in financial capital owns and controls the bulk of the world's assets. Corporations such as Blackstone, Texas Pacific , Bain Capital Partners, Thomas H Lee Partners, Goldman Sachs, Carlyle, Apollo Management, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Merrill Lynch and Cerberus Capital Management reached an industry total of 402.6 billion in 2006.

This small elite group pressure the government to 'bailout' bankrupt speculative firms and to balance the budget by lowering social expenditures instead of raising taxes on speculative 'windfall' profits. For the year 2006, Goldman Sachs (GS) recorded the most profitable year ever for a Wall Street investment bank, on the basis of big (speculative) 'trading gains and lucrative investment in the world's worst sweatshops in Asia.

US financial ruling classes have long influenced, advised and formulated policy for US Presidents. But given the stakes, the risks and the opportunities facing the financial ruling class, it has moved directly into key government posts.

One measure of the enormous influence of the financial ruling class in heightening the exploitation of labor is found in the enormous disparity between productivity and wages. Between 2000 and 2005, the US economy grew 12%, and productivity (measured by output per hour worked in the business sector) rose 17% while hourly wages rose only 3%. Real family income fell during the same period (FT November 2, 2006 p.11). According to a poll in the fall of November 2006, three quarters of Americans say they are either worse off or no better off than they were six years ago (FT November 3, 2006 p.13).
The ruling class will continue to make drastic structural changes to ensure profitable returns and to retain influence. Changes in relocation of production overseas to low wage, low tax, non-union locations, the introduction of technology designed to reduce labor costs and increase productivity, and diversification of economic activity to incorporate lucrative financial 'services'.

What is especially unprecedented is the dominant presence of members from one investment bank – Goldman Sachs. In late November 2006, Goldman Sachs (GS) senior executive William Dudley took over the Federal Reserve Bank of New York markets group. Hank Paulson, ex-CEO of GS is Treasury Secretary – explicitly anointed by President Bush as undisputed czar of all economic policies. Reuben Jeffrey, a former GS managing partner is the chief regulator of commodity futures and options trading, Joshua Bolten, White House Chief of Staff (he decides who Bush sees, when and for how long – in other words arranges Bush's agenda) served as GS executive director. Robert Steel, former GS vice chairman, advises Paulson on domestic finance. Randall Fort, ex-GS director of global security, advises Secretary of State Rice. The ex-GS officials also dominate Bush's working group on financial markets and financial crisis management. The investment bankers wielding state power will control the Bush regime's biggest housing giants (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), tax policy, energy markets – all issues that directly affect the investment banks. In other words, the financial banks will be 'regulated' by their own executives.

The degree of finance capital's stranglehold on political power is evidenced by the total lack of criticism by either party. As one financial newspaper noted: "Neither Mr. Bush nor Goldman have been criticized by Democrats for holding too many powerful jobs in part because the investment bank (GS) also has deep ties to Democrats. Goldman represented the biggest single donor base to the Democrats ahead of this (2006) year's mid-term election". (FT December 4, 2006)

Neither the Democratic Party majority in Congress, nor the Republican-controlled Executive offer any proposals to challenge the financial ruling class's dominance nor are there any proposals to reverse its most retrograde policies causing the growing inequalities, wage stagnation and the increasing rigidity of the class structure. The reason has been reported in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times: An overwhelming chunk of the funds that Democrats raise nationally for election campaigns also comes from the ruling class Wall Street financiers.

Nevada for Romney... responsible economics...
Unless of course you like McCains "straight talk" give up your auto worker jobs Michigan and work service industry.. Say, jack in the box, maid in a hotel, pick fruit.
He's got an illegal waiting for every good paying Michigan auto worker job at 1/2 the pay. He seems beholdin to the mexican congress, just like hillary, obama and that other slick lawyer from NC. Stop importing poverty...

r.burdette, you obviously do not know Michigan's recent history. Before the
current governor we had a Republican governor, John Engler, who delighted
in cutting funding (taxes) and bled the state coffers dry. Not unlike the Bush
policies we've been treated to as a nation for the last 8 years. (The Clinton
surplus, the largest in a long time, is completely spent by Bush.) If you want
to know what America's next 8 years are going to look like, regardless of the
party affiliation of the next president, just look to Michigan. Hold on to your
hats, America, we're in for a bumpy ride.

Yes we are in a recession.
We are over taxed, and corporate billionaires reign.

Can there be any doubt that Ron Paul is who this country needs? A man of the utmost integrity and a man of humility. But most importantly, a man with the right ideas – of tolerance, of love, of freedom, and – of course – of the people.

Ron Paul is in the thick of this race. Almost 30,000 proud Americans already have cast their ballots for Ron Paul in both Iowa and New Hampshire:

1. Romney 103,755 30%
2. McCain 102,361 29%
3. Huckabee 66,876 19%
4. Paul 29,648 9%
5. Giuliani 24,151 7%
6. Thompson 18,712 5%

At least the Republicans came to Michigan. Another brilliant Democratic move.

First off, Michigan does not have the highest tax rate in the nation. Our personal income tax rate is a flat 3.6%, one of the LOWEST. And our sales tax is 6%, well within what other states are charging.
These low taxes (thanks to former Governor Engler and a Republican legislature) amount to less income for the state, combined with fewer federal dollars thanks to the Republicans, which in turn leads to unfunded programs, less money for schools, etc. This is not Granholm's fault, as she has been working with the Republican legislature who dropped the Small Business Tax and didn't replace that funding, because a Republican can never be for a tax, can he?
Our problems stem from the auto industries concessions to unions, who want cradle to grave health care, high pensions, and high wages for people with high school educations, who then when they try to find another job, are totally unprepared to challenge a college grad for something. Did you know that benefits add $1500 to the base price of a new car?
Add that to the unwillingness of US automakers to change their thinking and stop producing gas hogging vehicles, and the recipe for disaster was there. When is the last time you heard anyone say the following words "Conserve gasoline!" I can remember when there was an oil shortage and we LOWERED highway speeds to 55, thus saving fuel AND lives, and we were asked to cut down our usage. Not anymore. Just like the war, Americans are not supposed to have to sacrifice anything. (unless you count 4,000 dead soldiers and the trillions of wasted dollars, but who is?)
Bush goes smiling over to Arabia, gives them weapons, and comes smiling home with no assurance of more production. We have to do this ourselves! Turn your thermostat down, drive the speed limit, combine errands...don't just do it for the environment, do it for the benefit of this country's welfare. When gasoline goes up, all prices go up. My husband works for a chemical company, and every one of their products uses a crude oil by-product, so all their prices are up.
Come on America! Pass the word-CONSERVE OIL! It's the only way to bring the price down, because the Saudis (from whence the 9-11 terrorists REALLY originated) love this-they have a huge market in India and China, and they are sitting pretty.

Charlotte and Jeff. The Republican Party has been hijacked years ago!

There are only two TRUE REPUBLICANS running for the office of the Presidency and they are Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul.

The problem in America is not Republicans. The problem is that any pro-life official that wants to be elected HAS to run as a Republican. Huckabee taxes like a Democrat, Romney flips like a Democrat, and Giulianni pretty much IS a Democrat if it wasn't for his support in Iraq.

REAL REPUBLICANS want lower taxes, smaller government, less foreign involvement, national sovereignty, and a better way of life for ALL PEOPLE.

I can't wait until these Republicans return to Republican values!

Here's my question for all you "rich people" haters and Democratic supporters who most likely can't want to get your already extended hands on the government gimme prgrams Hillary and Barak are promising to gain votes......Can democracy prevail when capitalism fails?

This is the land of opportunity, so if you are not secure financially, then look in the mirror if you are trying to figure out who to blame! Could it be perhaps that you dropped out of high school, didn't get a post secondary education (plenty of grants out there for "poor" people-it's only the middle class students that get left out of those educational gimmes!), or are you living paycheck-to-paycheck because you have more children that you can afford?

For example, The Dems want socialized medical insurance-they seem justified in thinking that those of us who planned for our futures, got a marketable education and have a job should pay for your families' healthcare. I owe you nothing-you people need a large dose of accountability! What ever happened to good ol' American self-reliance??? My grandparents were dirt poor, but they NEVER took a hand-out from anyone; they were to proud to ever live off government welfare programs.

It's a joke when some of the richest people, who are Democrates,Hillary, John Kerry, John Edwards or Ted Kennedy, pander to poor people to get elected. How ironic they have to take the silver spoons out their mouths first!

In case you didn't notice, it was capitalism that brought down the Berlin Wall. After Communism had promised to give people everything and could deliver nothing-their government collapsed. So, "Better Be Careful What You Wish For," because it was Bill Clinton you can thank for NAFTA –moving jobs out of this country and also opening the flood gates to illegal immigrants who drag hourly wages down!

Mitt Romney, a proven capitalist, had better win this election or we are all going be working for the Chinese government to pay back our national debt!
And you think you are poor now!

Michigan is in big trouble, signs of times to come. The letter R-bad letter....Race,Religion,Recession, Republican need I say more

Dear Friends:
On the trail again get some trail mix and enjoy!!! Country style,
fresh air!!!! Every man woman and child a joy!!! Vote!!!

Life a bowl full of jelley beans!!!!!

I live in Michigan and our governor has been touting training workers for the new economy as her plan to revitalize the economy yet we are still in a one state depression

The idiots in charge of the US auto-making industry deserve what they have, the workers don't B

ut none of the politicians or CEO's would listen to us 4 years ago when we offered new technology and new product which would bring the torch of innovation back to Michigan.

It's too bad I don't know how to link my tag with a web address or e address because we can fix this.

All these guys are so full of themselves and say, 'think outside the box' and then they go back to the box and run in circles like a rodent. DUMB, WAY DUMB!

CNN you may give my e address to anyone who wants it who wants to know how to fix the car industry, and the american economy/auto-worker segment affected.

It's rediculous that Chuck Wagoner and Bill Ford have let it get this far when this was all avoidable, and it's sooo easy to fix but they won't hear of it.

Save for the workers, I hope they all go broke!

I HAVE A BETTER PLAN! I'M NOT SURE WHAT IT IS BUT BELIEVE ME IT IS BETTER THAN ANY OTHER PLAN OUT THERE.

Outside of the candidates, I'd like to thank the Michigan Legislature for crippling Michigan's primary. It doesn't seemed to get mentioned as much as it should but several of the Democrat candidates aren't on ticket for the Primary. Additionally, the DNC has said it will not seat our Democrat Delegates. Nice! Congratulations Governor Granholm, you and our state's legislature have made Michigan a pointless primary state with your forced assertion that Michigan needs to be more important. Once again, you missed the larger picture. You've denied the people the chance to truly meet the candidates, and to freely vote for the candidates of thier choice. Bravo!

The east side of the state is suffering economically because of the dependance on the auto industry, specifically the Detroit area. The rest of Michigan has so much more to offer! Specifically West Michigan. The economy is healthier, the people are friendly, and the way of life is fine. Michigan may be hurting, but it is not all gloom and doom!

I THINK FRED IS ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREAT SCREEN ACTORS OF OUR GENERATION. HE BEATS REAGAN IN THIS REGARD

Who cares about the Republicans in Michigan? Republicans are what is wrong with America.

LET'S ASK OLD JOHN MCCAIN FOR SOME STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT HIS POSITION ON ILLEGAL ALIENS, PLEASE.

WATCH AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. I DON'T BLAME HIM FOR NOT LIKING GEORGE BUSH FOR THE DIRTY TRICKS THEY PLAYED ON HIM. DO REPUBLICANS REALLY THINK MCCAIN REALLY HAS FORGIVEN THE DIRTY TRICKS?

JOHN MCCAIN WILL HAVE US KNEE DEEP IN ILLEGAL ALIENS AND WAR. LOOK FOR A WAR WITH IRAN IF MCCAIN IS ELECTED.

ALSO, DO YOU REMEMBER MCCAIN SINGING TO THE TUNE OF BARBRA ANN BY THE BEACH BOYS: BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN,
BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN
BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN

ALSO, DO YOU REMEMBER MCCAIN SAYING HE WOULD PAY $50 AN HOUR TO ANY AMERICAN WHO WOULD COME TO HIS RANCH AND DO THE HARD WORK THE ILLEGALS ARE DOING NOW? HE SAID THE ILLEGALS DO THE WORK AMERICANS WON'T DO. HE WAS ARROGANT WHEN HE SAID IT. HE DID NOT STOP SAYING IT UNTIL HE LOOKED AT HIS POLL NUMBERS FALLING AND HIS DONATIONS SHRINKING.

THIS GUY IS NOT FIT TO BE PRESIDENT. IF YOU WANT MORE ILLEGAL ALIENS AND MORE WAR, VOTE FOR MCCAIN. OTHERWISE, CHOOSE ANYBODY ELSE EXCEPT LOVERBOY GIULIANI. OF COURSE, MCCAIN APPARENTLY WAS A LOVERBOY HIMSELF BEFORE HE CAUGHT HIMSELF A RICH WIFE.

Marti San Diego, CA January 12, 2008 11:17 pm ET
Michigan, please, vote the issues not who is most likeable. This isn't a race for senior class president. It's also not a time to payback McCain for his service to his country. We tried that once already with Bob Dole and it got us Bill Clinton. Remember? McCain has served his country. Yes, but when the man can only point to one or two accomplishments in 24 years, 24 years!!!, that's far too little. Mitt accomplished far more in 4 years as governor of MA that McCain has ever done in 24 years.
Let's elect a *proven* leader with a real resume of results. VOTE ROMNEY
The Real McCain Record
Obstacles in the way of conservative support.
By Mark R. Levin
There’s a reason some of John McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed electability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks.
The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter. For starters, consider:
McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.
McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.
McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.
McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.
McCain-Reimportantion of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).
And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric — tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.
McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.
Vote Romney – the candidate with a very impressive record of decades of achievements in business, as governor of MA, and with the SLC Olympics. Romney is a *proven* leader who has shown time and time again that he can actually get things done. Talk is cheap, accomplishments matter.

R.BURDETTE

I'm no fan of our governor but your remarks are utter nonsense. Trade agreements, monetary policies, currency exchange rates, etc. etc. etc. originate in Washington. It's not just about autos and it's not just about Michigan. It's shoes, clothing, toys, electronics, food processing ( Yes... OUR food processing ), steel making, lumber... the list goes on and on. It's not Jennifer Granholm's fault that we are forced to compete against labor rates as low as 90 cents an hour. ( China ). Can you survive on 90 cents an hour R. Burdette?

FI January 12, 2008 3:48 pm ET
Does anybody remember McCain last year in the following:
Illegal Aliens do the jobs Americans won't do. McCain had the nerve to challenge the American people that he would pay $50 an hour to anyone who would come to his ranch and work the fields the way the Illegal Aliens do.
Remember the phrase "JOBS AMERICANS WON'T DO?"
HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT ILLEGALS BUT HE STILL WANTS TO DO IT. IF HE IS ELECTED, HE WILL WORK WITH KENNEDY AND THE REST OF THE CROWD TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. REMEMBER LINDSEY GRAHAM ALSO SUPPORTED THE AMNESTY BILL, FOLKS.
CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE PUT McCAIN ON THE SPOT AND MAKE HIM TAKE A STAND ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION? THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE TO KNOW JUST WHERE THAT MAN STANDS.
I THOUGHT MITT ROMNEY WAS GOING TO DO IT BUT HE IS NOT TAKING THE FIGHT TO McCAIN. AND FRED THOMPSON IS ONLY INTERESTED IN THUMPING HUCKABEE BECAUSE McCAIN IS HIS FRIEND.
THIS NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT OUT BEFORE THE SOUTH CAROLILNA PRIMARY. IF YOU WANT AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS, McCAIN IS YOUR GUY.

NO TO MCCAIN

Von January 13, 2008 5:31 am ET
CHECK THIS OUT TO SEE IF IT IS TRUE. GOOGLE THE LADIES NAMES TO GET INFORMATION.
rachel lanore January 11, 2008 10:15 pm ET
What does all this say about McCain's character? These blurbs are from goggling his wives…. Carol, Cindy… wow…
According to the newspaper, McCain returned to Jacksonville in 1973 after more than five years as a prisoner of war to find that his wife was a different person. Carol McCain, once a model, had been badly injured in a car wreck in 1969. The article recounts that her injuries "left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she gained a good deal of weight."
By 1979, McCain was concerned that his Naval career was not advancing and pondering his future. He met Cindy Hensley, an attractive 25-year-old woman from a wealthy Arizona family. McCain courted her and married her in May 1980 — a month after getting a divorce.
Carol McCain waited for the return of her husband from his Vietnamese captivity for five and a half long years; as McCain idolator David Grann put it in the New Republic, she was "a kind of modern-day Penelope to McCain's Odysseus." She carried her burden with nobility, and resolve, staying faithful to the man she refused to believe she had lost – even in the face of her own tragedy. It was Christmas Eve, 1969, while driving along a snowbound street, that she went crashing into a telephone pole: the impact hurled her through the windshield. She lost her left leg, ruptured her spleen, and went through a long series of agonizingly painful operations. Before the accident, she had been a statuesque beauty who worked as a model; she came out of it with four inches subtracted from her height, broken in body – but not in spirit. Her love for her war hero husband forbade her from letting him know anything of her condition: he knew nothing of the accident, and she refused to write him about it since it would only make his burden heavier.
From Justin's website;
THE RETURN OF THE INGRATE
Any man would be lucky to have such a fierce, unbending love: she stuck by him, agitating for his release, and living for the day of his return. Her devotion was repaid with rejection. He learned of her accident on the plane home, and wasted no time in getting rid of her. He was soon back to his old tricks of playing the field – "just as he had at the Naval Academy," says Grann – and soon sought a divorce. He openly acknowledges that his behavior was solely responsible for the break-up of his marriage, and seems to glory in the macho role while simultaneously professing at least some sense of remorse: "I think she has reason to be bitter," McCain told one interviewer.
I think this is going to be a problem again for Him, plus the Keating Five
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IS IT ALL TRUE? NO BETTER THAN THAT RAT GIULIANI.
HOW ABOUT ROMNEY OR HUCKABEE?
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ROMNEY OR HUCKABEE, PLEASE. We all know McCain wants to open the floodgates on illegal aliens and we cannot afford a congress controlled by democrats and McCain as President. THINK ABOUT IT, AMERICA.
JUST SAY NO TO JOHN McCAIN.

The Japanese dont pay auto workers health care costs because they have Universal health care ,saving about $1200.00 on each car they sell here.How can they be so SOCIALIST and still have a good economy ?They educate their kids and are way ahead of our kids in all skills needed for their future.Lets face it this country is just too cheap to do the right thing.

No surprise, Romney dances better than the Rockettes. Ask him a difficult or compromising question, he'll sidestep it and slither away.

I consider myself an independent and appreciate John McCain's "straight talk" regarding the fact Michigan needs to focus on the new economy. He is absolutely correct. Michigan has the talent and infrastructure to support many different industries successfully. I hope the next President of the United States sees Michigan and its circumstances in the same light as Senator McCain.

Thank You.

Contrary to what r.burdette has chosen to believe, it's astronomical health-care costs for employees, the UAW's ineffeciency, competition from lower-wage nations and high gas prices that's killing the Detroit automakers, not Granholm's "tax-and-spend liberalism." Believe it or not, universal health care (gasp! the horror!) could be the one thing that could save the industry. So yes, the fact that Bush has ignored what's going on in Michigan while gleefully watching the health-care industry and his oil buddies rape the public DOES have a lot to do with our one-state recession.

Oops – Colleen in Kansas City. My mistake!

Michigan is in big trouble, a taste of what's to come for all the states. The R letter is not a good letter, Race, Recession, Republican...need I say more

Hillary and Mitt are the candidates with the highest "no way, never vote for them under any circumstances" numbers. Why choose candidates that half of American hates? Further polarization guaranteed.

"Michigan's highest tax rates in the nation couldn't have anything to do with their one-state recession. Your state is living (dying) proof that tax and spend liberalism is a failure–pay attention Hillary and Obama and Americans."

And this country's recession is proof positive that the conservatives' tax-cuts-for-the-rich + outrageous-government-spending = economic disaster. The trickle-down economics redux of the past eight years is the biggest sham in US history. More reason why we have to put a Democrat back in the White House to balance the budget (again), reduce the deficit (again), and restore economic confidence (again).

Stay out of the Bushes people!

Katherine Ryan: Hillary would NEVER pick Obama as her VP, and that's why she's going to lose the general election because her African American supporters will turn on her when they realize it didn't go as they predicted. I'm in Michigan, and I have realized that Mitt Romney will when this state. As for the democrats, I voted Uncommitted.

I wish someone would ask Mitt Romney what kind of car he and his son's drive. As a matter of fact I'd like to know what kind of car all the canidates drive.

I agree with Dave in Chicago.

Mitt has done all he can to address these different topics.

As for Mac,
John McCain did his duty 40 years ago in Vietnam. He was unlucky enough to get shot down and captured by the enemy. I respect him for surviving the hell that he and many other brave soldiers went through. All of them should have our sincere gratitude.

That being said, we are now choosing our next President.

Mr. John “ITS NOT AMNESTY, THEY HAVE TO PAY A SMALL FINE” McCain could never win the Presidency. McCain would even lose his home state of Arizona where they just repudiated him by enacting the harshest anti-illegal alien law in the nation.

In 1987 Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to what they estimated to be 1 million illegal aliens. It was in reality 3 times that number. Now John McCain and the Democrats estimate that 12 million illegals are here now. Logically they are again greatly underestimating the real number. Under the McCain plan, all of the illegals would be able to bring their entire families to the U.S. All of them would immediately be eligible for government assistance such as food stamps and healthcare. Last year in the Senate, John McCain lead a few misguided Republicans and almost all the Democrats in a failed attempt to pass the amnesty bill. It just barely failed. The Democratic Presidential candidates all support the amnesty bill. That bill will pass in 2009 unless we stop them.

The media is doing its best to help the Democrats via John McCain. The Democrats would love to see a John McCain nomination.

A vote for McCain or Huckabee is a vote for the Democrats and economic failure.

Mitt is the answer.

I think this article is a little misleading. Gov. Romney has never danced around the question of the economy. He has repeatedly stated that the country is headed toward recession while Michigan has been in a one state recession for a number of years. Romney also laid out a plan to stimulate the economy especially in Michigan.

I agree whole-heartedly with Gov. Romney. We are definitely headed toward recession, but we can turn it around with the right leadership. I like his plan and I like his message.

I will be voting for Mitt.

Congratulations to the governor of Michigan. When she made her remarks blaming the Bush administration for Michigan's economic woes, she alienated even more potential purchasers of Michigan-made automobiles. It's always easier to blame someone else than it is to look in the mirror, isn't it Governor. Michigan's highest tax rates in the nation couldn't have anything to do with their one-state recession. Your state is living (dying) proof that tax and spend liberalism is a failure–pay attention Hillary and Obama and Americans.

Best way for Dems to get sixteen years is for Hilary to be Pres candidate and Obama VP. He takes over when she leaves office

Ron Paul said we are in a recession. Not sure how deep yet. Time will tell. Enough the government is in panic mode as usual.

Asking the filthy rich like Bush, Clinton, Romney, etc whether or not we are in a recession is a joke! These people like the filthy rich news anchors in the media can afford to laugh at Ron Paul and the average person when they mention how difficult it is to survive from paycheck to paycheck. Dr. Paul is not hurting but he sure knows how bad the economy is getting and he is the only person who knows how to fix it!