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Recession Blues, Detroit, August 3, 2011
dcs_p]The season is on, but where’s the money? The way things are around here, I’m wondering if I’m going to have any customers. Everybody in this town is crying the blues, and it’s no wonder. Half the plants are closed, all the auto-parts places shuttered. Shops that used to breed money … and gamblers. I talk to the builders; they’re broke. Real-estate people surviving on their neighbor’s foreclosures and grand-kids moving into their grandparent’s basements. Everybody’s struggling, everybody’s hanging. It’s like a cyclone tore through southeastern Michigan, taking all the money with it. The joke is … the money got dropped in Washington. [/dcs_p]
