Purple girl

We pennsylvanians(particularly pittsburghers) feel michigans pain. We were a one trick pony too, only our pony was steel, yours was cars.
We are both in the same boat, and it listing to the starboard, and heading for the iceberg.
Nothing disgusts me more than every four years when the major political parties pander to us folks in the rust belt. We are the salt of the earth. Then they forget we are alive for four more years.

A month ago I didn’t think Barry stood a chance, but with the country going down the tubes, we seem to now be willing to accept a black man in the white house. It is amazing when all else fails, we will consider a black president.

Yeah & Mac was going to Kick Ass in MI too- BS!
We may not have as ‘Folksy’ a population as PA,But we got the Same Woes! The Rust Belt NEVER REALLY RECOVERED after the ‘70’s original catastrophic attack.
Let’s be honest, we knew in the ‘70’s screwing around ANYWHERE in the M.E. was Playing with Fire!
Reading a History book would have been ample evidence of Minimalist involvement was Foreign Policy Number 1- Long before Hostages were taken, Highjacked Planes or Odd/Even Days.
Plants started closing, the mass exodus outwards had begun. The ‘80’s brought Us Union Busting Labor Policies,and A Rashes of White Collar Crime.. Not to mention a covert operation providing arms and Money to ‘Freedom fighters’ again to solve an issue (Iran contra- Arms for Hostage Deal). Cheney Corp helped Osama Bin Laden defeat the Russians and Drain their Coffers Dry in the Process. The Afghani War Brought ‘Down the Wall’ more than Reagan!Reagan Did NOT Bring Down Russia- Economics Brought down the USSR, Which it is very Close to doing to US at this Moment…Interesting Correlation.
Let me tell you HOW the ‘Rust Belt ’ processes information…LINEARLY, Just like a part coming down an ASSEMBLY Line. We comprehend and think in ‘Accumulating’ construction. Granted our ways have been stifled- since such logical deductive reasoning skills are not CURRENTLY BEING UTILIZED, we have slipped in to our repetative mental Groove. But when No Ones given a shit about you (except when they need some more cash flow out of our wages and benefits)in Nearly 3 decades, you just go numb, keep you head down and wait for the end of the ‘Day’.
I’ve Never Been to Scanton- but I Know what it looks Like…I live outside Flint! ...‘I See’ Ghost towns, literally .
So instead of telling me what the % are for Mac vs Obama…Or even what Hillary’s vs Obamas Number were..Tell Me How many People Voted in the Democratic Prim vs the Repug Prim. The media enjoys dicing up the numbers is every conceiveable way.. Execept the Most Accurate. How many voters came out to vote for a Dem and How many came Out to vote Repug? I voted in Mid -January, I was Determined to vote Dem No Matter What they did to discourage Us!The Repug Sec of State even tried to help the Clinton Campaign by ‘scrambling’ The SCAMtron Ballots- Terry must have agreed with Rush that Hillary would soldify the Right (Or they are all on the same team?!?)
The Unions (whats left of them) are coming out stronger than Usual this time because FINALLY it’s not a Neo Con in Blue DLC’er Nominee?
Talk about ‘Joe 6 pack’ all you want, but who you are Insulting with that PATRONIZING stereotype are the ones who are the descendants of those who built this country, the middle class and Those Corps!WE still got the Mindset to Do it again. Don’t Tell me the ‘manufaturing Jobs are gone forever’ We know that means You have No interest or regard for what made our country Great!Shit the Workers were the ones demanding the Big 3 go fuel efficient in the Damn ‘80’s, same decade they were handed the prototype for an Electric car..Hell Steam seems to move Shit pretty well Too…but The Big 3 choose to play ball with the Wicked Witches of the East and their Flying monkeys the Oil Corps.
So this current Economic ‘Meltdown’ had been Simmering for decades, they just kicked up the heat over the last 15 yrs.Big’Thanks’ to Bill- NAFTA helped put the last nail in our coffin! CheneyCorps Fait Accompli! Yeah all ‘Hard Working White people’ Love the Clintons.Hillary did NOT Win Michigan, it was handed to her…..
Like I said We like Cumulative assembly in our Work and in our Logic.We KNOW Whose ‘Chickens have come Home to Roost’ we see the Shit piling up on their Doorstep(s). Mac should just concede the entire Rust Belt..even his former Koolaid dringking White collars are feeling the pinch now.

The American economic crises can be summarized in few words: “American financial chickens are coming home to roost!”

Unless and until people understand this issue and work to amend the fundamental defect in the system through political economic reform, this cycle will be repeated at an average of one every decade. In fact, I just learned that America has gone through this scenario six times since WWII, which is about one every ten years.