Ohio Losing People

According to a report from a major moving company, business statistics indicate that more people are permanently leaving Ohio than arriving. The same is true for Michigan where two people leave the state for every one person arriving.

As a resident of Ohio, I am not surprised. Leaving Ohio is close to being included on my agenda. I had a dream a while back in which the state Highway Patrol had set up border checkpoints on all roads. As people arrived, they were ordered to surrender their wallets, their cigarettes, their guns and their children. Then a UPC tax code was tattooed on the back of their necks.

It was a weird dream.