.hey, probably most of the people there VOTED for him you put with him...as if they care about you and and you making a living.....I will play some sad music for ya....
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By David Martosko
PUBLISHED: 11:50 EST, 15 August 2013 | UPDATED: 12:20 EST, 15 August 2013
August is usually the time of year when businesses on Martha's Vineyard make enough money to see them through the cold, tourist-free winter. But with the president and his family on the Massachusetts island, road closures are detouring visitors – and their dollars – away from towns near the Obamas' vacation home.
Writing about the town of West Tisbury, the Vineyard Gazette reported that 'the traffic change will keep people away from the village center at the very height of summer.'
'August is our make it or break it month,' Vineyard Artisans Festivals manager Andrea Rogers told the local newspaper, 'So this is the worst possible time of the year to block access. It impacts a lot of people.'
'We’re really in a bad position at a critical time of year ... we’re trying to survive the winter.'
Obama's chosen week away from the White House overlaps with some of the Martha's Vineyard events that attract the most summer tourists, including fireworks nights and an annual agricultural fair.
Many island businesses rely on those summer-ending celebrations to make ends meet.
Gas station co-owner Patrick Jenkinson told The Martha's Vineyard Times that his business has come to 'really rely on this third week in August, especially Fair week.'
'We do as much business in that one week as we do in three weeks in February. But we're way down from what we usually get in sales, more than 15 to 20 percent.'
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