The Heartland

We live in an isolated world on an island between the great Hudson and east rivers. We see things through a tinted set of windows and the effects of a deep recession to the country is sometimes lost on us. The market has started to rebound from it's lows earlier this year and the outlook we are given is more rosy than other's see but what is not lost on me is that the heartland is hurting a lot more than the NY based media is letting on. Factories are closing by the tenfolds, unemployment in the manufacturing sector and it's supporting industries are sky-high and uncertainty for the future is astronomical.

See most people know more about the price of gas then they do about the price of anything else, gas prices probably affects the average person more than any other commodity item. So when jobs are low and gas is high it is a double whammy because unlike fast food there is no dollar menu for 87 octane. Real people in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio suffer from this the way bankers from NYC suffer when they are forced to eat at Applebees.

This country has gone from a manufacturing hub to one left to die as it's been decided that overseas manufacturing will allow us all our indulgence without having to get our hands dirty but these days are over.

What we need is a recommend to making things but first this supposed recovery has got to come here because honestly it is uglier than you can imagine when you drive through industrial parks and see one for-lease sign after the other. What people worry about here is less about brunch menus and more about lunch menus. We think that the heartland is a brewery while these people see it as everyday
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