Retire or not to retire?

Work has been slow for everyone but I am the slowest and my kind workmates have given me a little work.  This I appreciate very much because as a consultant every hour is billable and if you are not billable a high percentage of the time you go on part time or you plain go.  I am sort of at a cross roads – what to do?  There is no work in Indiana or Michigan other that what I am doing.  Manufacturing is just about down the tubes so that leaves the major employers as the local and state governments.  China is hurting us folks!