I'm a resident of Michigan, and a film industry worker. When I let someone who's a LAWYER and a PRODUCER tell me that I'M greedy, that will be the day!

Mr. DeMartini feigns concern for Michigan's film industry when his real motive is nothing more than to challenge anything that might monetarily benefit anyone other than himself. The 40% he would save on money spent here is simply not enough, he must have more, and this means feeling it's his God-given right to pay absolutely the lowest possible wage.

The several dollar-an-hour bump crew members will get should bring up their hourly wage to a fraction of what he gets to be driven to set in a limo, and sit in a monogrammed director's chair oblivious to the people running cable, lifting shot bags, building sets-i.e. actually making his movies. Long before those crew members have sleepily driven a hour plus after their 14 hour workday to get home he will have been chauffeured to his deluxe suite, along with whatever relatives he's bestowed with the title of "associate producer".

I hate to shock you, Mr. DeMartini, but the Michigan Film Incentives were not designed for you, but for the people of Michigan- the people who will pay their mortgages here and purchase local goods, not prance off to Rodeo Drive and hit the boutiques. The incentives are designed to bring money INTO Michigan, because God knows we need it.

Comparing Michigan's auto union situation to IATSE is simply apples vs oranges- one has nothing to do with the other, except for the cheap shot of drawing parallels between the poor state of Michigan's economy and the union staffed by the nameless drones you have to grudgingly pay to make your films.