March 31, 2007 journal, Detroit Michigan held an auction on houses but no one bid them. If you had bought all the 150 houses for $1 a piece you most likely could not have rented one or collected the rent to pay the high annual taxes. Like other cities, Detroit is having a problem with these vacancies and having to cut grass and repair houses to protect their vital neighborhoods. A preacher has moved here from Detroit and after two years cannot sell his house in Detroit. Another city was shown this week on TV having to cut lawns & repair houses to keep neighborhoods up. The Greenville County Council is passing an ordinance requiring people to keep their lawns mowed and keep the yard with necessary repairs as to how you use your property. if they notify you, you must comply within 10 days or they will do it for you and send you the bill. Should you not pay the bill then they will auction off the house to satisfy the repair and penalties. Back during our troubles we could not afford to pay for our lawn to be mowed and already the county came out and gave us notice because a neighbor complained. They pass new laws on top of the old laws as the general public grows poorer. It is suggested we arebecoming the North American Union already. The transition of this country is on the fast-track and results will not be good. The average life of a nation or empire like us is 200 years although Britain has last much longer, they are now declining ahead of us. The news of Iran arresting the British soldiers and threatened to put them on trial for entering their territorial waters is all over. The murder rate reported in Philadelphia is the highest in the nation per capita with 400 murders last year about double and no end in sight.