This idea may be too simplistic Alan....but it does take individual leadership, IMO! For all the people whining that there is no money, no food, no gas, no clean streets, no houses painted and cleaned up, etc etc etc....
Soap and water, and elbow grease are pretty cheap, as my Grandma used to remind us! There is NO excuse for laziness and sloth she also told us!
Where are the leaders of the neighborhoods? Someone needs to gather them together, and figure out what their NEIGHBORS in other states or countries NEED.... and then they can proceed to try to make the best of those things. Start like a neighborhood lemonade stand...
Mrs. See of Mrs. See's candies started her business in her 70's I believe. Grandma Moses started painting about that age as well. Famous Amos of Famous Amos' Cookies wasn't a spring chick either when he started....Neither was Col. Sanders of Kentucky Fried...
The key would be a basic....find out what is NEEDED, and then as a group, try to figure out how to satisfy that need.
i.e. Palm Desert CA has something called a "flea market"....My sister in planning for a group of us to come down, said on a Saturday, we would all go....Most of us thought to ourselves..."WHO wants to go to a flea market when we are on vacation".....Well, turns out this wasn't any ordinary "flea market".... Its' a LARGE group of individuals who gather together to sell absolutely great wares, and at hugely discounted prices....Some of the things aren't discounted. Those things are so unique that they command a top price, and people are happy to be able to get the items!
Thousands of people come on the weekends from all over the area to see and buy.
Why aren't the people of the rust belt doing things like this? |
