Yes, thanks to the unions Michigan is a dump. However, I do believe that union officials are living quite well.

I well remember Gov Granholm screeching that she did not want to see a budget without tax increases. She swore she would not sign a budget without increases.

We see how well that worked out. No doubt the failures were all because of Bush.

Change the word "built" to "bankrupted" and he might be close to telling the truth.

And that´s where Obama stops. He could benefit from looking at how those same unions subsequently pushed their advantage further to then undermine the middle class they helped build.

Has he seen Detroit lately? A perfect example of Democrat rule and ruin.

While unions had place 40-60 years ago, most of the labor laws and statutes are in-place to protect workers now.

You don´t need a union to protect your work conditions or negotiate your pay and benefits package.

And no where should an automatic deduction of the union dues be made.
Let the union set up staff to obtain those union dues, collect them, deposit them, etc... Free state resources MUST stop.

O gives a pro-union speech at a auto plant that had to be rescued by a foreign car company AND the US Government. Irony meet reality....

In my previous and now defunct business I had to deal with the unions. What a bunch of thugs! They aren´t that wonderful to their members either - especially ones who get late on their bribes....err...dues. Far as I´m concerned it´s racketeering.

Long story but I now work somewhere else - no unions involved and a much happier life for me.

Does anyone know how much Richard Trumka is paid?

Right, Zero, Detroit is the model all cities should aspire to.

obama will say anything to any idiot that will listen to him.......i saw the crown in mich......no need to say anything more

According to Google he makes 250k plus very nice perks. Free housing, transportation, etc.

The fool and his idealogy soon to be parted

Drive down Jefferson Avenue in Detroit. Sing Hillary Clinton´s famous lullaby: "Look for the Union Label".

I´ll start to believe you the day you send your family to live there in the working man´s paradise.

Greed and union power are killing the middle class.

Unions are merely another branch of the Mob.

Look to Detroit to see how the Welfare/Entitlement state destroyed a once great city.

The community organizer talking. What rubbish!

We are allowing normal working people to keep more of their money and not be mugged and robbed by a few union thugs.

Democrats worried about losing a source of money, those union dues all go straight to the dem party. What a joke.

Go to google and type: detroit ruins
Now click on images. This is what unions and democrats have done to city after city.

I didn´t know Unions hired that many people. What did unions ever product? Truth is the opposite to what ever Obama says. If Obama wasn´t a liar he´d have said "Look at Michigan to See How Corporations Built
America´s Middle Class."

Yep, how about those closed factories, put out of business due to Union wages and poor workmanship?

How about those cities that are destitute...run into the ground by greedy Lib politicians AND UNIONS!

How about those non existent jobs you keep harping about...Liar!

How about a reality check big boy?

If Obama had a state it would look just like Michigan.

Yes. Please look. Look reel good and hard. Look closer. See the prosperity that is Detroit?

Thought so. I didn´t see it either.

The unions have done wonders for the bulldozer industry.

I am not in a union and made over 4 bills last year. I would never, ever join a union.

yes, but he was sad. At the end of the rally he was going to hand out Twinkies, ooopppsss forgot that you can´t them any more.

MAybe in 1912. However in 2012 the unions are destroying the middle class while chasing industires overseas.

Poster children are the Chrysler employees just reinstated.

WHen I think of Michigan I get a picture of dreary, gray, poor and dirty. People on the edge of despair in run down houses and barren front lawns. I don´t think happy, sunny or bright. Just depressing place.

Looking at Detroit.

Henry Ford built the middle class, not a bunch of ignorant thugs.

When in the hell did unions of any kind CREATE a business that gave people jobs? When in the hell did Obama start believing in the Union Fairy? He OBVIOUSLY hasn´t visited the REAL Detroit area of Michigan. Or, if he did, he was TOO STONED to realize what a Socialist disaster it´s become.

Welcome to NeoAmerica.

Detroit and its surrounding area is a wonderful example of the end results when Unions are allowed to run amok.

Dont wreck your brains trying to absorb this idiocy. Hes meant to spread Chaos and confusion with over exposed OVERLOAD. keep grounded!!

Look at Michigan to See How Unions... Killed the Golden Goose.

As long as we have morons like zero bailing out union bankrupt companies like GM, they will claim all kinds of benefits of unionization. When the money runs out, we´re all in the tank.