>>Your suggestions illustrate just how little you understand the situation in Michigan, but have no fear...what our Governor has done to the mitten, so 0bama will do to the other 49. You’re going to understand it firsthand.<<
Truth be told!
People don’t get the idea that MI has been in a recession for years. We can’t “sell” anything. I’ve put things up on Craigslist. Nothing is selling. I’m moving onto ebay and praying that the clothes I sell there will buy the new ones that will fit in the Spring.
No one is going to hire my 10 and 8 year olds for squat. Even the girls at my church that used to pay for extras with babysitting are finding no work. Go to any movie theater on a weeknight. No one is there.
One day when the proud ego puffers on this thread, who think that we are so stupid that we haven’t thought of “selling the house and moving” are sitting in our situation, I will chuckle and not say, “Told you so.”
I’m just hoping that the lovely Dem mayor of our city will follow Ann Arbor’s lead and let us keep chickens in the backyard. Otherwise my kids will be living on peanut butter for their protein.
When we visit, it almost seems like visiting another planet. The first time I went, I was planning our departure time, wanting to get on the road early, before "rush hour." When I said that, my relatives looked at me like I was crazy. There was no rush hour.
The difference between MI and a place with a vibrant growing economy, like ATL's, was stark.
I can understand his frustration, but these two ladies (one of whom has since died) are living off of bequeathments--nothing else. No social security, nothing.
BTW...getting screamed at by a big, angry guy wielding a shovel? Really scary.