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This could as well be Detroit or any other major city in the industrial midwest. I think nobody cares what happens in this part of the country. Most people outside this region feels detached from the situation like some how this has nothing to do with them. Industial states always suffer an amplified version of recessions. But this has been going on for quite a while.
It is a symptom that something has gone very wrong with our nation's economy for the past 20, 30 years.
At the end it is the responsability of this region to fix itself, but it is a tall order when we are not a producing nation anymore.
Sadly, those photos don't surprise me at all. I remember seeing stuff like that all the time in some of the areas by where I grew up. Thankfully my town was pretty decent, a lot of the surrounding suburbs just south of Chicago as well as the south-side of the city saw a lot of that over the past 40 years or so as manufacturing dried up.
America peaked in the 60's. It was all downhill from there. The 60's were the best era in American history. From the music to the cars to the leaders. It's no coincidence so many assassinations and mysterious deaths took place during that era (late 60's to about 1971). Much more than what we've seen in the 40 years since then. Whether it be Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Malcom X, I mean the list is endless.
It was an amazing time of change with the viewpoints of many American citizens changing. Citizens who actually had spines to stand up for what they believed was right (this is before tv plagued the nation with super sized foods). The Vietnam War brought change to America and really challenged its' citizens to look in the mirror and see who they were. Man went to the Moon and the Cold War was running thick. Manufacturing jobs were plentiful and Made in the USA meant something. What a beautiful time to be alive. What I would give, to go back into time, so I could experience that incredible era.
Last edited by At1WithNature; 05-28-2009 at 08:46 AM..
If you don't like it there are other countries in all directions.
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