[servantboy777]

Bout a year or so ago, my wife and I took a motorcycle trip from Texas to North Carolina. We stayed off the highways and wanted to travel off the beaten path.

Very sad. We noticed scuttled manufacturing facilities in almost all the small towns across the nation. Many small towns are simply drying up.

China-mart is the biggest employer in most of these towns. Folks making eight to ten bucks an hour, working 36hrs a week so the corp can avoid benefits and such.

Just sad.

[upchuck]

Driving trips are a fav of mine as well. Off the beaten track. No Interstates. Just Federal and State highways.

I’ve seen the same as you. Factories down, plants shut down, boarded up store fronts in downtown. Even churches closed.

So sad.

It will be neigh impossible to bring that back. We are so far down in the hole.

It’s hard to be so depressed about a country I love so much.