Dark clouds on the horizon

To be sure they were not popping the champagne corks and singing “Happy Days Are Here Again.” In fact they called the event “boring.”

Yet the prognosticators reported that Michigan’s economy is “strong and stable,” and when quizzed about any dark clouds on the horizon, they uniformly dismissed it as, it not, folly, darn close to it.

Such was the lead story out of the gathering of the state’s top drawer bean counters/economists whose vital job is to predict how the state is growing and how much moola lawmakers will have to play with as they orchestrate the writing of the new state budget. A budget that spends $80 billion of your federal and state tax dollars.