Bush Legacy Tour

BOWLING GREEN, KY- We rolled into Bowling Green late afternoon on Tuesday for a quick stop before heading to Indiana. Station square, a beautiful park downtown featured the Bush Legacy Bus for a couple hours in the midst of perhaps the most bucolic setting we have brought the bus to. Surrounded by park benches, trees, and flowers, locals came out to take a tour of the bus.  Across town autoworkers at the GM plant were having an event of their own. GM was celebrating 100 years in business with parties across the country. In Bowling Green, however the party was bittersweet.  Plant workers reveled and ate their cake knowing that 70 people from their plant will be laid off in the next few weeks. The plant has cut back production, stop new hiring and it getting ready for layoffs.  The Bowling Green Plant is well-known for manufacturing Corvettes, often described as a “recession proof” car that maintains consistent sales.  Even an American classic like the Corvette is not impervious to the current faltering economy. John McCain should pay a visit to the Bowling Green plant and let them know that their job loss-according to the skewed vision of the status of the economy-is the exception not the norm. “ I think we are better off overall if you look at the entire eight-year period, when you look at the millions of jobs that have been created, the improvement in the economy, etc,” said McCain recently.  John McCain and his wife have a connection to the classic sports car having owned several of them in the past.  Maybe the newly laid off workers at the Bowling Green plant should start a letter writing campaign to encourage John and Cindy to invest some of their millions in Corvettes, to put them back to work.  

John "Skip" Fenlon from Bowling Green