Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks

Michigan and Rhode Island are like two demented half brothers. Both are blue states. Both have high taxes. Both are highly unionized. Both have lost a good chunk of their manufacturing base. Both are losing population.

Yet, despite their demise, the people living in both places keep electing the same awful public officials who keep driving them further into the ground.

If you want to see what an ObamaNATION will look like years in the future, it exists now in MI and RI.