Jim Jacobs Quotations

Mike is only 19 years old. Look up the ring records of Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano and see who they were fighting after 10 months. You won't recognize any of the names.

On the one hand, this is good news for the community that it was a relatively smaller number than anticipated. Now, the question is, are these jobs only the beginning? Honestly, I was surprised. I thought the number would be in the thousands.

But there is a counter trend with new migration into the United States. Particularly from both Europe, the Middle East and Asia. These are people who see manufacturing as an opportunity.

GM needs people with the ideas, with the right skill sets, but if you are a young person or a parent of a young person, are you willing to cast your lot with the auto industry right now? That's a real challenge.

The 8 percent doesn't come as too much of a surprise. With the auto industry lagging in general and the domestic part of the auto industry lagging in particular, Macomb takes kind of a double hit.

The 8 percent doesn't come as too much of a surprise, ... With the auto industry lagging in general and the domestic part of the auto industry lagging in particular, Macomb takes kind of a double hit.

Youll never know the joy, the happiness that these guys showed today,

It is true that the auto market inside Michigan is shrinking. But the auto market in the United States is growing. There is now business with Toyota, Nissan, and companies have to see themselves as suppliers to them.

The guys found that the concession and two storage buildings were broken into. There were food products dumped in the parking lot, tipped-over planters and damage to a wood railed fence and the in-line hockey field.

The county's income is declining because manufacturing is declining, and manufacturing is declining ... as something we value as a nation. The Big Three are having less and less of an impact in Macomb County, and the auto industry in general has less and less of an impact on the nation's economy.