DETROIT NOW... TOLEDO NEXT !!!

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw

"We can try to avoid reality... but we cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."

PS: On Jan. 4th, 2010, Toledo's newly elected Mayor, Mike Bell, starts out with a worse-than-expected deficit of a negative $44,000,000 [million dollars!]... in a city whose revenues have continued to drop for decades, as jobs disappear and the population dwindles each year. -- NOTE: Toledo, formerly the Glass Capital of the World, also used to be the home of eleven (11) Fortune 500 Companies who had their headquarters in Toledo, as well as their main manufacturing plants. Now all of that is gone! Only Owens-Corning's headquarters remains, and that is because they just got out of bankruptcy reorganization. The rest are all gone... all the factories and the offices! -- CONCLUSION: Toledoans who think what has happened in Detroit cannot happen in Toledo will only help to reinforce the inevitable with that kind of denial. Toledo is a mirror image of Detroit! Drastic changes must happen in Toledo if there is any hope of avoiding the exact same blight that has literally destroyed Detroit... which, at one time, was once the wealthiest city in America per capita, income-wise... as well as the [former] 5th largest city in America. You do the math... and then consider the causes.

INCREDIBLE BRAVERY! -- Tango Mike-Mike

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=RZ7968BbMnU&feature=related

I have no words for what this man did.
Just watch it and see for yourself.

F I N A L L Y . . .

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=qtjfMjjce2Y

I cannot add anything to this. I agree 100% and have been saying many of these same things for years! You simply have to see it for yourself. Let me know what you think.

QUOTE OF THE DECADE... MAYBE OF THE LAST 100+ YEARS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs

Witness one of the greatest civilized public tongue-lashings ever!

To all intelligent / thinking Americans, I share with you the undeniably true and brave words of a British Member of Parliament, Daniel Hannan, regarding the current economic recession. Imagine one of our U.S. Senators or Congressmen having the courage to say this publicly to our current President Obama. Someone needs to say it!

QUOTE: "We cannot spend our way out of a recession; and we cannot borrow our way out of debt!"

These words apply just as appropriately to the USA as they do to the UK and any other country on earth.

Let me hear from you if you disagree with this logic. See it as it happened... on the YouTube link above.

Frank Sinatra's Latest Video !!!

I love Frank. Always have, always will. Frank was extraordinarily talented, unflinchingly decisive and... simply put... a man's man. You always knew where he stood on issues. This animated video spoof taps into that image. Check it out if you want a grin.

http://americancomedynetwork.com/animation.html?bit_id=25239

Dubai, Fastest Growing City in the World!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2rOK5otLFM

I have friends and business associates who have traveled here and worked here... and all of them loved it. Now, due to the long economic recession in the USA and a shortage of jobs, especially in the construction industry, it is my intention to find work in the UAE in Dubai or Abu Dhabi in the very near future. Doha in Qatar is also a possibilty. Other Middle East countries that are possibilities for me are: Jordan, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iraq. Regardless of where I end up, I will continue blogging with interesting and eclectic topics.

PS: The recent financial problems of a company in Dubai, called 'DUBAI WORLD', is not as bad as it appears. -- First, it is just one company that has a cash flow problems (albeit a $60 Billion shortfall) and this will not have an effect on the other countries in the Middle East. -- Secondly, Abu Dhabi is the capital and financial center of the UAE and they are extremely wealthy and flush with cash in Abu Dhabi and they can easily bail out this company in Dubai if they so choose.

MUST SEE TV, SUNDAY NIGHTS @ 9:00 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZKsbg1F_f4

Check out this girl, Lisa Kelly, age 28, on the History Channel at 9:00 PM on Sunday nights. She's cute, funny, smart and one tough cookie! She's a heavy haul trucker on "the Dalton" ... the toughest, scariest road in North America. -- Lisa is a former moto-cross [motorcycle] state champion, a former school bus driver and now an "ice road trucker"... and does all this without loosing her femininity. -- Ask yourself: Could you do what she does?