CNN - Indiana job ads: Topless dancer or nothing

[Taverner]

(CNN) -- Surviving economically in downtrodden Elkhart, Indiana, may require doing some things you don't want to do.

"Here in Elkhart, I've never seen things as bad as they are," lifelong resident Yvonne Sell said Tuesday. "When you open the newspaper, unless you want to be a topless dancer, there's nothing."

Elkhart became the poster child for the nation's economic downturn when President Obama visited there Monday and then mentioned it several times during his first White House press conference.

Unemployment in the Elkhart-Goshen, Indiana, area was 15.3 percent in January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, the fourth highest of any U.S. metropolitan area. Elkhart's unemployment rate has spiked more than 10 percentage points in the past 13 months.

But is it really that bad in Elkhart?

According to Sell and several other business owners and workers, it is.

Sell and her four co-owners are in the process of selling Blessing Music Co., which has sold, rented and repaired musical instruments for school bands since 1916.

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/10/elkhart.reax/index.html

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Now I have nothing against topless dancers and their art - but is this really what the Christian Right wanted when they voted in Bush?

Maybe we should remind them that their daughters have to sell themselves to survive, and that its ALL THEIR FAULT!

[Hello_Kitty]

1. The dancers will be out of work when the men can no longer afford to go to strip clubs

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Yup

[panader0]

2. Who can afford to go to a topless joint?

I just watch my sweetie shower.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

3. Careful Where You Stuff The Nickels...

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. also be careful where you try to swipe your credit card...

:evilgrin:

[Blue_Tires]

6. years ago, in the sleazier, poorly lit establishments

my cousins used to give the girls ones while sneaking twenties off her hip...so it could be a profit venture for those with light fingers...

[seabeyond]

19. sneaking? or stealing? what filth... that is something to brag about. n/t

[panader0]

5. Nickels? Credit cards?

Okay, I haven't been to a topless joint in 15 plus years, but nickels? Cards? God, I'm getting old!

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Innovation, Ms. Sell, INNOVATION!

Revamp Blessing Music into being a TOPLESS musical instrument center! (No charge for my flawless business advice. By the way, do you have any openings?)

[seabeyond]

9. except this really had nothing to do with topless dancers. was a whole article

on the economy of this town and was merely one statement made by a person and that is the headline for cnn to grab the attention of watcher. nothing like more and more conditioning.

yesterday was some porn star playing at politics to get another jab...

[Taverner]

10. I dunno, I like telling the fundies "It's your fault your daughter will be a WHORE!!!"

:evilgrin:

[seabeyond]

11. ya, the in thing, all females strippers, porn stars and whores.

i am sure you will enjoy

[Taverner]

12. It's not that - Its more a matter of throwing back into the fundies face what they did to us

And the deserve it for their selective hypocrisy

[seabeyond]

13. once again, at the expense of females. seems the only time we can get attention is by using women

porn stars, strippers, whores or fuckin veggies to get back at....

but fuck it, as long as you get your jab, wtf

[Taverner]

14. Oh go sing your torch songs elsewhere

We're all fucked, admit it

You, me, women, men - we're all fucked

[seabeyond]

15. only if you are willing to bend over. you seem to not be bothered

by it.

no thanks.

[BlooInBloo]

16. This thread is worthless without pics.

[seabeyond]

17. reading comprehension bloo bloo. there is a picture. of a town. that

is what the article is about....

focus.

[BlooInBloo]

18. Dammit. I want bewbies.

[seabeyond]

20. lol lol lol. like this world lacks....

i am quite confident, if you seek, you will find

funny you

[BlooInBloo]

21. :P