Mich. group courts homeland security industry to create jobs

I have been advocating this in my area, too. This is a good place to set up a Homeland Security training school. I have wide open areas, built up regions, and all the required infrastructure to support it. It would be fun to make a real Homeland Security College that has degrees and also the standard coin, cointel, coterror trainings. Full service!

What is wrong with this concept? We need a good college that can train people to handle massive emergencies and do it without the government. Sure, the government will almost always be the basis of the planning, but ALL communities need to be prepared to survive for at least a week without the state or federal services. If I had the money I would set it up myself and hire the best experts from around the world.

Allowing Leftists to train the future leaders of our security and safety services is insanity. The only thing they understand about security is shutting up the opposition anyway they can. They think safety means shutting down all the businesses so that they don't exploit the workers. Leftists are fools who have a place in society reminding us how to be human, but not so far into being human that we become fools also.

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In another move Michigan is making to diversify its struggling economy, a former state politician has launched a non-profit group aimed at attracting homeland security businesses.

The state has a storied history in supplying defense needs in times of national peril: During World War II, car manufacturers stopped making cars and built tanks and bombers. The famous Rosie the Riveter poster proclaiming "We Can Do It!" was modeled after a woman working at a plant in Ypsilanti.

With Michigan in need -- it has the highest unemployment rate in the nation -- Leslie Touma thinks there's opportunity in other areas of defense: cybersecurity, border monitoring and bioterrorism. They are sectors the state has the talent base to fill. What students graduating from its prestigious university programs need are places to get jobs.

Touma this week launched the Michigan Security Network, which will work to bring more security companies here, as well as coach auto suppliers on how to expand into the industry.

"We think the homeland security industry is a great opportunity for Michigan," says Touma, who has a background in both the automotive and defense industries and once ran for a congressional seat in Michigan. "This is a great opportunity to expand our leadership."