Obama Spinning His Wheels in the RV Capital of the World
I’ve been in Elkhart County for 35 years. I watched the RV industry fall apart in the late 70′s and everybody here declared it was the end of our local economy.
Then guess what happened? Reagan came along, gas prices settled down, and people started buying the things again. Lots of them. We had twenty years of boom times, the lowest unemployment in the state most of the time.
In the meantime the RV industry diversified, moving into manufactured housing, emergency vehicles, etc.
We don’t need no stinking stimulus. We will come back again because we do have hardworking people here, Mennonites, Amish, and an influx of Mexican workers in the past fifteen years. Baby boomers for some odd reason love RV’s. Some sell their houses, buy a $200,000 RV, and go “full time.” The Chinese love RV’s.
Washington can go to hell. We’ll solve our own problems.
