Where do you live? How long do you think $100.00 lasts? Where will your children go to school? How will you pay for food. This just hop in you car and leave nonsense...is ridiculous. As for government ‘benefits’ like unemployment. If you are unemployed and eligible for such benefits and need to feed your family, you’re going to need take them. You want people to starve? Some of you must live in your parent’s basements and not in the real world. You guys who are bashing the Mid West should be quiet. The Mid West has dealt with hard times for a while. They are a tough group. I wonder how the rest of you will fare because if you think only the Mid West will affected in this downturn, you are unfortunately mistaken.
The $100 is for transportation to another state. If you had no job in your current state, and you didn’t own a home, all the other costs are meaningless.
Once you are in the other state, you can do whatever you were going to do in the original state, only you might be where the rents are lower and there are actually jobs.
My county added a thousand jobs this year. And our houses are half the price they were two years ago, and we have a lot of cheap rentals.
And we’ve had a lot of illegal immigrants leave.
So if a few unemployed but hard-working Michiganders hopped on the train and ended up in our town, they’d probably be much better off.
I’m sure our county is not the only one with better circumstances than Michigan.