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Re: O/T Is Your Job Auto Related?


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Posted by MF Poor on December 12, 2008 at 07:08:29 from (98.19.94.45):

In Reply to: O/T Is Your Job Auto Related? posted by Turke Bros. Farms on December 12, 2008 at 05:53:15:

Ripples on the pond.....

I work for a general contractor that build, among other things, several multi-level parking garages per year (in various large cities) With recent developments, there has been several projects cut off. Fuel and transportation cost has lessened the numbers of people driving. Lay-offs have cut deeper into that number. Wholesale cuts in city budgets has substancially lowered the monies available for large municipal projects. End result? The crews we NORMALLY have on the road pouring concrete and setting steel are being laid off for the first time in ages. (I've been with this company for 37-1/2 years)

So, with-out a direct tie to the auto industry, the same set of problems that is effecting the auto industry is sending about 100 skilled laborers (mix of union and non-union) to the unemployment office. They don't have money to spend on new cars and trucks. It just snowballs.

Point being, no matter what or WHO caused this debacle, it's real, it's serious, and it's ALL OF OURS to un-do. We can "teach Detroit a lesson" and spend the next 100 years chasing Tokyo to get ourselves back in the auto business, OR, we can do the unpleasant task of picking Detroit up by the collar and dragging them back into profitability.

You or I might not have set the barn on fire, but we sure do need to help put the fire out before it spreads to our barn.


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