My husband Kenny & I have been working the phones all afternoon for the past couple of hours, just gettin' real with people. I used to work a factory job when I graduated high school to make money for college. Where I used to work now may as well be a giant ant hill hundreds of acres wide.

NOTHING is left in the town of Anderson, IN accept for a Nestle plant. And shame on Nestle for putting up a giant sign of a giant neon rabbit on the highway with Super Bowl style graphics. I understand the importance of signage as a business owner, but I think that maybe, perhaps, the money that's spent on advertising should be re-routed back to an employee benefit plan? Perhaps the CEOs of Nestle who make all that chocolate mix we'll be drinking over the holidays with little white sugary marshmallows bobbing up and down as they melt in our mouth might think they can live on $250,000 a year instead of $25 million?

People get upset with the phrase "share the wealth." Well, we've tried that "share the poverty" concept and babycakes it just ain't workin' out too well, ya think?

One lady we know (we'll call her Mary) is a divorced mother/grandmother. She is looking forward to the information we have for her to help see if we can help some Human Resources Departments. If people believe they have a solution it's a sin to keep it to themselves. (Can't find a bible verse exactly for it but that comes from Cynth'ya's Bible of Common Sense Christianity).

Our friend works near Fort Wayne, Indiana at the GM factory there. I said we're on a flat out mission, and asked "How many people are losing jobs there on average?"

Her reply: Anywhere from 15-30 families EVERY SINGLE WEEK! Mary has no idea when her number is coming up but people are in a fog pretending and hoping nothing happens to them.

What about Anderson, IN? Detroit, MI? Indianapolis, IN? the United States of America?

President-Elect Obama can't do it alone. Even his ground-up strategy was nothing more than a word of mouth networking capitalist-based system that made American families create companies that created jobs.  So Home Based Business is a major key to help bolster the economic pit we all are facing together. If people can't work, small business owners can't get paid. Medical professionals can't get paid. City staff can't get paid. and on and on. . .

MUNCIE INDIANA CAN'T EVEN AFFORD SNOW REMOVAL THIS YEAR ON WEEKENDS. So if it's a Friday thru Sunday and y'all don't hear from me for a while, I'm plowing my own street.

Hope don't pay no bills. Cash does.
YTB is more than a business. It's a lifesaver because somebody might get shot being frustrated about not being able to cope with debt. Some domestic abuse case might be prevented if one person who didn't care what people think just handed out 1 DVD for $1.00!

That $1.00 DVD could put tax dollars back into the ecomony. Things are so bad here in Muncie that all the factories will be shut down in 6 weeks. People work but the work conditions stink. No time off. No raises. No insurance. And food is still high. And crime is still happening because people have NO money and no education because they can't pay for it to better themselves. End of story.

And people are still shopping at the malls. People are still packing airports. People are still getting married. People are still buying flowers and going on cruises.

If we are our neighbor's keeper, where will people be if we all sit on our hands waiting for something to happen by 2011? Let's do unto others and stop whining about ourselves. If your neighbor has 2 eggs and you've got bread, have breakfast together and drink 25 cent coffee at McDonalds.

Then learn about each other's families, passions, interests. Good grief people don't have to date to wave at a neighbor and start caring again! We ALL need each other. That's why I love cruising because it gives me time to talk to people when I don't have a worry or a care in the world. If only more families could figure out that some things are more important than money...like time with family vs. time kissing a boss's big toe.

What if it was us who lost our job? Will we sit on our hands and whine, or stand on our feet and get free again?

Last time I looked, this was still America.

God bless it.

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