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Nightingale · 03-23-2008, 01:27 AM

If you add in the fact that around here we have a lot of farmers that moonlight at the automotive factories to help bring in more income, then you can probably already see where I am going with this....
We are losing our automotive factories at an alarming rate in this area. In my hometown, we had five major auto factories and they just closed the last one a few months ago...it's unbelievable...
Nobody ever thought that could happen, but it did...

We have farm ground....a little over two hundred acres and that's cosidered a family farm for around here.
We would starve if we depended on our income from farming, and we would never be able to hang onto it if we were trying to make the ground pay for itself.
There are just way to many hands reaching out for every penny you make off of it.

03-23-2008, 01:27 AM	#11
Nightingale Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Indiana, USA Posts: 675	Re: Interesting 1987 Interview With Mellencamp! If you add in the fact that around here we have a lot of farmers that moonlight at the automotive factories to help bring in more income, then you can probably already see where I am going with this.... We are losing our automotive factories at an alarming rate in this area. In my hometown, we had five major auto factories and they just closed the last one a few months ago...it's unbelievable... Nobody ever thought that could happen, but it did... We have farm ground....a little over two hundred acres and that's cosidered a family farm for around here. We would starve if we depended on our income from farming, and we would never be able to hang onto it if we were trying to make the ground pay for itself. There are just way to many hands reaching out for every penny you make off of it. Last edited by Nightingale; 03-23-2008 at 01:32 AM.