No, it's just that some people are sickos. SOme people have there own private Hell and hate life and they look for stories to generate company. Like I said, we have a 5.4% nat'l unemployment rate. That is generally considered full employment.
I want the people laid off from O'Neida to do well and get new, better jobs. But I don't think they represent what's happening in America. I think the perpetual malcontents like you and Willie are Bad Time guys. During genuine hardship, you would fold. You go and invent thins to worry and kevetch about.
It ain't utopia out there, but it's pretty darn good. Get over yourselves.
Doing what? In upstate New York there is not much going on.
This is where you tell me they should move to where the work is. Well, if everyone did that there would be no more suburban areas because all of the unemployed would have to move to big cities to find work. That's where the work is. Just pack up and move. Just like Tom Joad, right? I can't wait to see what a truly transient society looks like.