I really enjoy hearing these figures that are reported (school enrollment is dow, jobs are downsized, Michigan is loosing people), but yet the budget stays. why do you think people are leaving West Michigan? Ding Ding I know there are no opportunities there. The local Government squanders all the money they recieve just to keep next years budget alive. I can't wait for Lake Michigan to turn into the cess pool that it is becoming and all the tourist loving, local blue collar hating people are stuck there to drown in it. There are less kids with the same budget, yet now some of my family who still lives there have to dump even more of their hard earned money just to let their children play sports. How pathetic is Ludington becoming.