Comments on: Why I Love Michigan by Anthony Hollowell http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/why-i-love-michigan-by-anthony-hollowell/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:51:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Val Norberry http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/why-i-love-michigan-by-anthony-hollowell/#comment-55360 Val Norberry Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:18:56 +0000 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/why-i-love-michigan-by-anthony-hollowell/#comment-55360 I love Michigan because of the people, the weather, the scenery, the TREES, the hills, the dunes. I rarely get out to the lakes. I spend most of my time in SW lower Michigan, close to Sturgis, driving Amish families here and there on pleasure and business. Yesterday we picked blueberries in Burr Oak, Michigan, which is near Colon, Michigan. Beautiful farms we passed, big decks, leisurely pools. There is prosperity here in spite of all the panic attacks that various cities are having. I think one thing that MAY save Michigan is the Christian undercurrent who is homeschooling their kids. I mean it. The humanism (and humanism is a religion with man at the center) in our educational system makes people self-centered and poor servant-hearts, selfish self-serving employees, who climb over eachother to get up at the "carrot" on a stick that so-called management holds out. I have made it in spite of my Detroit Suburban education. I became a born again Christian and I love this side of the state. Maybe we'll have to divide Michigan at Lansing and have 3 Michigans, not just an upper and lower. I think Detroit Mayor Kilwame Kilpatrick is a shame to this state. We need an honest person in government and I don't care if he's black, white,or alien green. I think Michigan Health Systems get taken advantage of by people who are on disability and illegal aliens to this country, because of the generous hearts of Michigan law. How long can we subsidize the poor, I'm not sure. I think the Methamphetamine problems in Michigan, including Allegan and Sturgis areas, are very significant and need to be addressed. I think Heroin is getting into GR and Kalamazoo and Portage and needs to be addressed. I think the mind-set that a pill is the answer needs to be fixed. Some of these problems are nation wide and are tied to technology and the computer and cell phone. I solve some of the techno-stress problems by hanging out with Amish people. While that may not work for everybody, tell ya what it sure beats drugs, been there done that, been clean and sober 30 years. God bless you all. I still love Michigan. And I used to party in Marquette when my sister was a student at NMU, (and I was 16) 2 of my sisters went to NMU. Marquette at that time had significant drinkers up there, probably still does. Kalamazoo has a lot of older people who are off drugs but think alcohol is just fine to be drunk all the time and I disagree with that mindset. I love Michigan because of the people, the weather, the scenery, the TREES, the hills, the dunes. I rarely get out to the lakes. I spend most of my time in SW lower Michigan, close to Sturgis, driving Amish families here and there on pleasure and business. Yesterday we picked blueberries in Burr Oak, Michigan, which is near Colon, Michigan. Beautiful farms we passed, big decks, leisurely pools. There is prosperity here in spite of all the panic attacks that various cities are having. I think one thing that MAY save Michigan is the Christian undercurrent who is homeschooling their kids. I mean it. The humanism (and humanism is a religion with man at the center) in our educational system makes people self-centered and poor servant-hearts, selfish self-serving employees, who climb over eachother to get up at the "carrot" on a stick that so-called management holds out. I have made it in spite of my Detroit Suburban education. I became a born again Christian and I love this side of the state. Maybe we'll have to divide Michigan at Lansing and have 3 Michigans, not just an upper and lower. I think Detroit Mayor Kilwame Kilpatrick is a shame to this state. We need an honest person in government and I don't care if he's black, white,or alien green. I think Michigan Health Systems get taken advantage of by people who are on disability and illegal aliens to this country, because of the generous hearts of Michigan law. How long can we subsidize the poor, I'm not sure. I think the Methamphetamine problems in Michigan, including Allegan and Sturgis areas, are very significant and need to be addressed. I think Heroin is getting into GR and Kalamazoo and Portage and needs to be addressed. I think the mind-set that a pill is the answer needs to be fixed. Some of these problems are nation wide and are tied to technology and the computer and cell phone. I solve some of the techno-stress problems by hanging out with Amish people. While that may not work for everybody, tell ya what it sure beats drugs, been there done that, been clean and sober 30 years.

God bless you all.
I still love Michigan. And I used to party in Marquette when my sister was a student at NMU, (and I was 16) 2 of my sisters went to NMU. Marquette at that time had significant drinkers up there, probably still does. Kalamazoo has a lot of older people who are off drugs but think alcohol is just fine to be drunk all the time and I disagree with that mindset.

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