During these hard times there are things that are happening around us that are like clue's as to exactly how much people are hurting in todays economy.
From 1994 to 2002 myself and my family lived on a 20+ acre farm. We were in the Arabian horse showing/breeding/sales business. Actually this was my wifes business I continued running our publishing business.
Well the town that we lived in was Lyons Wisconsin. Population at that time was about 2,500 people. But I think that was an over estimate. There was only 1 gas station, 1 corner store, 1 post office with just 1 employee, 1 school, 1 car repair shop and 1 bank.
There was only 1 minority family and that was mine. Everyone was very friendly and courteous. We all knew each other.
I was reading my newspaper the other day and I noticed that there was a bank robbery in the county of Walworth. That wasn't a big deal because the county is pretty large, then I read more and I was surprised that the bank was Lyons bank.
If I can draw this picture for you on how improbable this robbery would be from an outsider of the community. This bank is not a huge bank, you wouldn't know it was a bank unless someone told you it was a bank. Unless they've upgraded since 2002.
Everyone knows everyone in that town. And a big problem is that there are only 2 streets in the entire town and eventhough there are several small subdivisions there is still only 4 ways in and out of the town.
This is what Malcolm Gladwell coined as a Tipping Point! In his book he stated that all people can be pushed to do BAD things if giving a certain combination of circumstances.
I don't have details about the bank robber, but I would bet that they were experiencing financial problems and that they were from that neighborhood.
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