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Michigan Governor Wants 'Open Source' Economic Model

Posted by timothy on from the for-some-values-of-open-source dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Incoming Michigan governor Rick Synder spoke in Kalamazoo, MI today and says he wants to use an 'open-source economic development model' to help repair the battered down state. Perhaps during his time as president of Gateway he saw a benefit to the open source model, but can it really be successfully applied as an economic model?"

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  1. Real open source by sheepofblue · · Score: 1, Troll

    Real open source would be making it a right to work state and getting rid of union control. Real open source would be to get rid of the government control and let people figure things out. What he seems to be proposing is nothing more than leveraging best practices.

  2. What it takes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    An official 13% unemployment rate, which means something north of 17% real unemployment. Crashing property values and utterly blighted urban areas. That's what it takes to get voters to finally shed the leftists and elect people who are willing to spend some time thinking about what must be done to achieve some level of prosperity.

    The only saving grace that state has had is a constitutional requirement, established by adults long ago, to balance the budget; at least they can attempt to recover without stupid amounts of debt. Hopefully the new boss will still be in power when all the 'unfunded' public sector union bennies finally come due; a big haircut is needed and it would be great if the powers that be failed to kowtow.

    Dear MI, keep it up another 10 years to prove this isn't a fluke and I'll move back. Till then, rot in hell.