Michigan Needs Mugabe!

My Nephews are paying for this Public Service Message.

This message represents a serious effort on the part of various citizens of the State of Michigan to attempt to resolve their present dilemma: a beautiful state in extremis once more.We will not point fingers; we only have ten apiece. It would require many more than that. We have reached a point where anything is better than the present continuation of the inane policies of the past: policies of the government, the corporations, the unions, the individual citizens. All stand now ready to reap the harvest of the past. Zimbabwe has Mugabe. Some say he is destroying the country of Zimbabwe. Mr. Mugabe at least has a plan of the direction he wishes to follow. We feel that it is this type of vision we need. The Detroit News recently had a headline article story that recovery may take 10 years. That is the death warrant.Of course, the poeple who made these predictions have been wrong at every long term prediction. However, there is very little optimism. My Mother-in-law used to say "When all else fails, welcome haws!"This was a reference to hawberries which were small, not very desirable berries growing on the thorny plants of the apple family in the Ottawa River Valley in Quebec. These could have been the barberry- leaved haw, the dotted haw, the biltmore haw or Lange's Thorn, the poplar-leaved haw, or the scarlet haw. These are augmented by the thorns, the red-fruited thorn, Arnold's Thorn, and so on.No one paid the slightest attention to hawberries, at least until the other berries -straw, blue, logan, mul - failed to appear.Then everyone made hawberry preserves, hawberry pies, and hawberry dowdy. So, when all else fails, Welcome Mr. Mugabe!