The government here has focused on raising taxes, putting off fixes on the budget until tomorrow which never comes.<p>The infrastructure is allowed to erode and this last year $175 per pupil was cut from education.  They won't even plow the snow on weekends due to budget problems.<p>Jobs are to be created not by private industry, but by the State.  Sound familiar?<p>In Michigan we know that goverment creation of jobs doesn't work.  The nation as a whole has yet to learn that valuable lesson.