Michiganers - if GM dies - will Michigan go back to being an agricultural state?

[Taverner]

Any ideas?

[MichiganVote]

1. Forestry is more like it.

[blue_onyx]

2. Well, GM won't die but

I think becoming an a green, sustainable place would great. Huge urban farms in Detroit where food is grown locally would be fantastic. Who knows what will happen...with all the pain MI is going through, there's tons of opportunity.

[Taverner]

4. How are all those folks going to pay for that green, locally grown food?

[OmahaBlueDog]

3. Every time I think of Michigan tight now, I think of this scene from "It's a Wonderful Life"

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/It's-a-Wonderful-Life.html



SAM'S VOICE
I have a big deal coming up that's
going to make us all rich. George,
you remember that night in Martini's
bar when you told me you read
someplace about making plastics out
of soybeans?

GEORGE
Huh? Yeah-yeah-yeah... soybeans.
Yeah.

SAM'S VOICE
Well, Dad's snapped up the idea.
He's going to build a factory outside
of Rochester. How do you like that?

Mary is watching George interestedly. George is very conscious
of her, close to him.

GEORGE
Rochester? Well, why Rochester?

SAM'S VOICE
Well, why not? Can you think of
anything better?

GEORGE
Oh, I don't know... why not right
here? You remember that old tool
and machinery works? You tell your
father he can get that for a song.
And all the labor he wants, too.
Half the town was thrown out of work
when they closed down.



I think of the GM factories in places like Flint as "..that old tool and machinery works" and Michigan as the new "Bedford Falls" where someone could get "all the labor he wants."

[Taverner]

5. Yep

And Flint is a nice city - it really is

Just a ghost town of sorts...