Times are indeed tough and honest hardworking folks losing their jobs need support, not criticism.........
Living here in S.E. Michigan, I and my fellow co-workers suffered thru the recession of the Carter years. During those years, there were massive layoffs here and lots of my friends who got laid off from my plant actually did have to move out of state. But they were young so they could absorb the inconvenience.
As the recession gradually came to an end, people started getting called back to work at their respective employers, my plant included.
However, those economic times were much different than what is happening around the Detroit Metro area now. The Tier II small, medium and large job shops which used to employ die makers and other skilled tradesmen and supplied companies like mine, A Tier I, HAVE CLOSED UP AND ARE NOW OUT OF BUSINESS.
It's mind boggling the number of industrial buildings and small shops that are now sitting idle with for sale signs in front of them.......
It's one thing for a small or medium business to lay off employees and weather a recession until things pick up to the point where they can eventually recall their employees or hire new ones but it's a totally different story when these companies go out of business altogether.
That is what we are faced with here in S.E. Michigan.............