 do you feel a new department of talent and economic development is needed in michigan  yes no undecided new department typical government add new departments never really seems to fix the problems but does expand government and increase taxes over time talent vs substance as a public servant  we need talent in elected not selected office we need those in office who are going to man up woman up to lansing politicans when are we going to wake up and quit playing policics i just had a client announce the closing of their us department of defense operation here locally why because the us government has moved all of those operations to off shore contractors the silence is defeaning office of talent and work force development please how much more overlap do we need  http wwwstateintegrityorg michigan new state department we would be in favor only if it didn t involve raising taxes not now not in the future  new dept but only if this replaces a number of depts and deletes several other depts no new staff or offices ida s  