Whatever. There are a lot of workers who are NOT making $70+/hr, and who do NOT have outrageous pensions or free healthcare with no deductibles or copays, but whose jobs nonetheless depend on whether or not the auto companies stay in business.
So?? I’m must be missing something in where in the Constitution that we are guaranteed a good paying job for life.
Apparently the big 3 are busy building plants everywhere but Amerika, making the same old crap and selling it I guess, to us and the local peasants. Do the Chinese pay 40,000 dollars for a SUV? Do the Mexicans? How about the Brazilians? What do they pay?
In reality, you all are in a state of mourning and are experiencing grief, but the patient hasn't died, just yet. I do believe he spent all your inheritance though on good times and women and your tears now will turn to anger soon enough.
I had a family business in the late seventies through most of the eighties. The world of technology changed quickly and we found ourselves feeling like what I used to call "the ice-men of the eighties". Most of our historical competitors had already folded. Our options were mortgage the houses for cash to re-tool or call it a day and move on. Either option required facing a degree of hardship....but that's life.
When we closed our doors it was the end of an industry that had supported scores of small to mid sized businesses for decades. Under today's social mores we should have been looking for a tax payer's money bail-out.
Instead we did what we had to do on our own.....that's life.