Michigan City Turns Off Lights

The evidence is starting to gather from around the USA that things are getting worse when it comes to living standards.  Yesterday we learned that 1 in 15 Americans are living below the poverty line...which is the highest percentage EVER.  Today we find this article that talks about a city being so far in debt that they can't pay their electric bill, so they ripped out their street lights and turned the place dark.

What??  This is America!

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — As the sun dips below the rooftops each evening, parts of this Detroit enclave turn to pitch black, the only illumination coming from a few streetlights at the end of the block or from glowing yellow yard globes.

It wasn't always this way. But when the debt-ridden community could no longer afford its monthly electric bill, elected officials not only turned off 1,000 streetlights. They had them ripped out — bulbs, poles and all. Now nightfall cloaks most neighborhoods in inky darkness.

"How can you darken any city?" asked Victoria Dowdell, standing in the halo of a light in her front yard. "I think that was a disgrace." She said the decision endangers everyone, especially people who have to walk around at night or catch the bus.

Other towns have postponed roadwork, cut back on trash collection and closed libraries, for example. But to people left in the dark night after night, removing streetlights seems more drastic. And unlike many other cutbacks that can easily be reversed, this one appears to be permanent.

The city is $58 million in debt and has many more people than jobs, plus dozens of burned-out or vacant houses and buildings. With fewer than 12,000 residents, its population has dwindled to half the level from 20 years ago.

Here;  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45156970

America has always been the place where your dad had it better than your grandpa and you were better off than your dad.  It looks like that trend may have peaked 10-20 years ago and now we are in decline.  This shouldn't surprise us...because that's what happens to nations who turn from God....things get darker.

As far as this particular city in Michigan (suburb of Detroit) mentioned above....it makes me wonder if the fact that Detroit is one of the most populace Muslim cities in America...has something to do with the tearing down of  this once great city.  It's a spiritual fact that worshiping a false god may start out well, but ALWAYS ends in disaster and ruin.