Michigan is So Bad That Even Iraqi Refugees Won't Go There Anymore

How bad is it in Michigan? This bad:

Michigan's economy is so bad that State Department is sending fewer Iraqi refugees to the area because of concerns that their future would not be bright.

After a request by relief workers, the policy of bringing Iraqis to Metro Detroit if relatives or friends live in the area was changed to allow only those with immediate family to settle here, according to the State Department.

"The State Department has taken the measure of things and decided it would be better to send them somewhere else, where they might be self-sufficient, instead of coming to Michigan, because the economy is very bad here and we have the highest unemployment in the country," Belmin Pinjic of Lutheran Social Services of Michigan said Thursday. The agency is one of several designated by the federal government to provide relief to the refugees.

This makes the news that McCain is pulling out of Michigan all that much more distressing. That state needs real change and they won't get it from Obama.

I just heard a clip on Rush's show in which Sarah Palin is volunteering to go with her husband Todd up to Michigan, walk the factories and assembly lines, and try to save that state for McCain. That's exactly what McCain needs and he should take her up on it.

UPDATE: Here's Palin's statement:

“I read that this morning and I fired off a quick e-mail and said, ‘Oh come on do we have to? Do we have to call it there?’ Todd and I would be happy to get to Michigan and walk through those plants of the car manufacturers.” Palin said, “We’d be so happy to get to speak to the people in Michigan, who are hurtin’ because the economy is hurtin’. Whatever we can do and whatever Todd and I can do in realizing what their challenges in that state are, as we can relate to them and connect with them and promise that we won’t let them down in the administration. I want to get back to Michigan and I want to try.”