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Because of mismanagement because people are incompetent, not the right analysis. we have to deal with foreclosure, insurance red lining. what the state should be doing is helping to -- the federal government, county government and state government to reinvest in these cities. michigan is a manufacturing state. really, a one industry state. so, as the automative industry, we saw manufacturing meltdown, saw plants go from michigan to mexico. that's trade policy. this is not incompetence in detroit. >> down to economic recovery in michigan. >> it's coming back but not fast enough. we lost over 30...

The first time in decades that's been the case. >> reporter: can you make up for that? >> we can do a lot toward making up for it. >> reporter: he's talking a bt the hottest new game in town. economic diversity. business and education leaders are meeting to discuss ideas that have helped other troubled states. they are recruiting more high-tech and green energy companies through aggressive tax breaks, convinced a broader economic base will protect them from the instability of being a one industry state. >> as a core industry in tourism, that can continue, but won't grow as it did over the last...