Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Hard times in Springsteenville
There's trouble in the heartland, a head-on collision smashing in my guts, man:
With the recent closing of Springsteenville’s textile mill, located across the railroad tracks, unemployment has hit an all-time high of 34 percent.
“It seems like there’s always another plant closing down,” Roberts lamented. “Once we stood for a hard day’s work for a day’s pay. But now, these jobs are going, boys. And they ain’t coming back.”
“To your hometown,” the mayor continued. “Your hometown.”
Unemployment is at an all-time high in Springsteenville, and it appears that spirits have never been lower. Most of the city’s workers served their country bravely in the 1960s and ’70s, when, after getting in a little hometown jam, they had rifles thrust into their hands.
“I was sent to a foreign land,” said Kyle Braley, who works on the highway in nearby Darlington County. “To go and kill the yellow man.”
You better listen to me baby: Read the whole thing.
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Tue Apr 12, 11:57:00 AM:
Sad story but everything dies, baby, that's a fact.
