You are an unemployed 40 +, undeducated production worker who lost their job after 15 to 20 + years with your plant. You have a mortgage on maybe a 60 - 100 thousand dollar house and a car payment and kids in high school. The unskilled job you were working paid you around $19 - $21 per hour which allowed you to pay the above as well as all your utilities and save a little.
You just lost your job!
If you say sell the house then you are telling that Eastpointe resident to move back into the crack neighborhood in Detroit that he moved out of...........
If you are suggesting that this now unemployed, unskilled production worker move out of state, what makes you think he can find a job out of state when he has to compete with equally unskilled individuals already living in that particular area?
And if you suggest that this person can find any job if he/she is willing to work minimum wage then I must remind you that it has always been the conservative republican argument that minimum wage was never intended to support and raise a family, it was for entry level training only........
That was not my argument. I understand when real difficulties lay in one’s path. I was critical of those who pile on imagined difficulties to the list. Especially when it was an absolutely unfounded assumption about the fine folks in Texas.