"No more talking about the homeless"

[technomadness]

Doing all the labor gutting it ourselves and putting in all new everything we had around $20,000 in that house. There were houses in Indianapolis cheaper than what we paid. This town has more empty houses than Detroit... they leveled theirs. There are empty apartment complexes. Empty old factories. Empty schools and stores. Fishers is the next place up is winning awards for the best place in the United States to live. Go figure... We have Mexican neighbors and black neighbors, white people here, old people... The Mexican neighbors are polite and they turn off their parties around 10. I don’t mind. The black lady next door is a sweet heart. I don’t know about some of the other people down the block. I just don’t know them. Our mechanic is a nice young family man from Mexico. I hope he can stay he does good work. Who is going to do roofs? Indianapolis has a lot of weather related roofing jobs.... tree cutting? Nobody wants to do that. Costs a fortune to have it all done these days.

This last paragraph is almost like a quote from the book.

Things are weird and falling apart because the economy is under massive distorting pressure.

Houses being empty is a symptom. Mexican immigration is a symptom. Most of the media’s focus is directed by politicians who focus on symptoms, not the underlying problem.

We were a country that built a stuff. An economic powerhouse.

But we made it so difficult to build stuff, with so many bribes required and red tape that communist China is more competitive!




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