I looked and looked and looked for something interesting to blog about. But every news report, every commentary, every article I read was focused on bad news and more bad news.  The headlines ranged from “Detroit’s Big Three in trouble” and “Kwame in Jail” to “more job losses” and “foreclosures”. 

And the balance of the news, of course, is focused on the elections.

So what are we going to do? No amount of positive talk is working!  Every conversation at every friend’s home turns into rhetoric on the economy. No one believes Detroit and Michigan will survive and come out of this doom and gloom situation. And that my friends is scary.
 
When I read that Governor Granholm is creating “contingency plans” to soften the blow of job losses if the GM and Chrysler merger happens, my curiousity knew no bounds.
 
What, I asked myself, could the contingency plans be like? What will they entail and when will they be unveiled? 
 
I know that there are some new jobs being created by new companies opening or expanding in Michigan but they are not being created anywhere close to the number of jobs that are being eliminated. 
    
Even without the merger between GM and Chrysler, the situation is dire. Wouldn’t you want to know just a teeny bit about the ”contingency plans” and what specifically the Governor’s office is doing about the situation we find ourselves in? 
  
But since none of that information is forthcoming, I, along with the rest of the world, wait.  I wait and wonder how my home town can be saved!