A journal of the economic plight of small towns and cities in the wake of the current manufacturing exodus from the U.S. The purpose of this blog is to document the losses of residents and businesses and other issues facing cities of 75,000 or smaller, especially in the Midwestern United States - and hopefully generate some form of coalition and ideas among such places to allow a better chance for their continued survival and hopeful comeback.
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On The Breeze
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In Season
84 Winter/Holiday poems
On God's Doorstep
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The Poetry Baker's Dozen
13 poems all around life
The Beach Poems
At the edge of sand and surf
Ghosts of the Fall
54 poems of Halloween & the Fall season
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Dan Stafford - Publisher
U.S. made products database and search engine:
http://www.madeinusa.org/
http://www.buyusa.com
www.buyamerican.com
Stop sweatshops:
http://www.uniteunion.org
http://www.behindthelabel.org
Donate a buck to help this site grow:
(*Not tax deductible*)
On The Breeze
20 Wind & Environmental poems
In Season
84 Winter/Holiday poems
On God's Doorstep
Poetry/photography of a beautiful place
The Poetry Baker's Dozen
13 poems all around life
The Beach Poems
At the edge of sand and surf
Ghosts of the Fall
54 poems of Halloween & the Fall season
To view a listing of all my books as they are released click HERE
Smalltownpapers.com
www.farmweb.org
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The failing of small towns across America is a canary in the coal mine. Jobs are disappearing everywhere across the country.
We can no longer sit silent while Washington denudes the U.S. of its farms, ranches, factories, defenses, and wealth.
Make no mistake - this country is being gutted like a corporate takeover. The people are being left with nothing.
Our military is being wasted in Iraq to enrich defense contractors. Oil is just a small part of that picture.
And when there are no factories left to manufacture a defense, when we are importing everything, food, fuel, weapons,
Letting rot the riches and heritage of this great nation, who will stop someone under their economic control from coming to take it?
Nuclear weapons? These people have the codes. They even have most of the news media in their back pockets.
Perhaps they will even have convinced al of us with their TV news it's better to be taken over than to starve,
Since none of us will have work by the time they are done other than "services" to the few wealthy in control.
These people talk God but they speak with a forked tongue while they slip their hands in your wallet pocket.
They are NOT the friend of rural America. They are NOT the friend of megalopolises. They are only friends to
their wallets. All this talk of "doing it for yourself" is horse puckey. That's to divide us. There is a
Reason why our coins are stamped "United We Stand." Because if we are working together and helping each other,
we succeeed, because we are greater than our individual efforts, struggling alone - and dying off, like these
small towns over America. You can take that to the bank, but you might have to work your passage overseas first.
D.
Get registered at: http://www.rockthevote.com/
Let's turn the lights back on...
E-mail stories or comments: Dan Stafford
The failing of small towns across America is a canary in the coal mine. Jobs are disappearing everywhere across the country.
We can no longer sit silent while Washington denudes the U.S. of its farms, ranches, factories, defenses, and wealth.
Make no mistake - this country is being gutted like a corporate takeover. The people are being left with nothing.
Our military is being wasted in Iraq to enrich defense contractors. Oil is just a small part of that picture.
And when there are no factories left to manufacture a defense, when we are importing everything, food, fuel, weapons,
Letting rot the riches and heritage of this great nation, who will stop someone under their economic control from coming to take it?
Nuclear weapons? These people have the codes. They even have most of the news media in their back pockets.
Perhaps they will even have convinced al of us with their TV news it's better to be taken over than to starve,
Since none of us will have work by the time they are done other than "services" to the few wealthy in control.
These people talk God but they speak with a forked tongue while they slip their hands in your wallet pocket.
They are NOT the friend of rural America. They are NOT the friend of megalopolises. They are only friends to
their wallets. All this talk of "doing it for yourself" is horse puckey. That's to divide us. There is a
Reason why our coins are stamped "United We Stand." Because if we are working together and helping each other,
we succeeed, because we are greater than our individual efforts, struggling alone - and dying off, like these
small towns over America. You can take that to the bank, but you might have to work your passage overseas first.
D.
Get registered at: http://www.rockthevote.com/
Monday, August 21, 2006
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